1 Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division
2 of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas.
5 The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
7 Adrian Holovaty <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with
8 Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.
10 Simon Willison <http://simon.incutio.com/>, who originally created Django with
11 Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently
12 helps from the sidelines.
14 Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly
15 before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.
17 Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, who designed Django's admin
18 interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has
19 made many other contributions.
21 Georg "Hugo" Bauer <http://hugo.muensterland.org/>, who added
22 internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton
23 of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
25 Robert Wittams <http://robert.wittams.com/>, who majorly refactored the Django
26 admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent
27 tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
30 And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
31 people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped
32 answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
36 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
38 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
40 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
42 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
44 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
45 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
46 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
47 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
49 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
52 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
55 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
56 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
57 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
58 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
59 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
60 Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy@iinet.net.au>
61 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
62 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
63 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
64 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
65 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
67 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
68 Maniac <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
73 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
74 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
76 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
77 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
79 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
80 pgross@thoughtworks.com
81 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
82 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
84 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
85 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
88 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
89 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
90 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
92 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
95 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
97 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
100 A big THANK YOU goes to:
102 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
104 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
105 his sage sysadmin advice.
107 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
109 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
111 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.