Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division

of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas.

The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):

Adrian Holovaty <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with

Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.

Simon Willison <http://simon.incutio.com/>, who originally created Django with

Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently

helps from the sidelines.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly

before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.

Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, who designed Django's admin

interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has

made many other contributions. He makes us look good.

Malcolm Tredinnick <http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/>, who has made

significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database

layer to template system and documentation.

Georg "Hugo" Bauer <http://hugo.muensterland.org/>, who added

internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton

of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.

Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>, who has contributed many excellent

improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and

unit tests.

Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy@iinet.net.au>, who has contributed many excellent

improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests.

Robert Wittams <http://robert.wittams.com/>, who majorly refactored the Django

admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent

tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.

And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --

people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped

answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:

    adurdin@gmail.com

    Andreas

    andy@jadedplanet.net

    ant9000@netwise.it

    David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>

    Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>

    Jiri Barton

    Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>

    Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>

    Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>

    James Bennett

    Ben <afternoon@uk2.net>

    Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>

    Simon Blanchard

    Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>

    brut.alll@gmail.com

    Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>

    Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>

    C8E

    Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>

    Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>

    ChaosKCW

    Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>

    crankycoder@gmail.com

    Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>

    Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>

    dackze+django@gmail.com

    Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>

    Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>

    dave@thebarproject.com

    Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>

    Alex Dedul

    deric@monowerks.com

    dne@mayonnaise.net

    Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>

    Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>

    Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>

    Clint Ecker

    Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>

    Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>

    Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>

    Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>

    favo@exoweb.net

    Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>

    Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>

    gandalf@owca.info

    Baishampayan Ghose

    martin.glueck@gmail.com

    Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>

    Owen Griffiths

    Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>

    Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>

    Brant Harris

    Hawkeye

    Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>

    Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>

    hipertracker@gmail.com

    Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>

    Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>

    Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>

    Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>

    Tom Insam

    Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>

    jcrasta@gmail.com

    Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>

    jpellerin@gmail.com

    junzhang.jn@gmail.com

    Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>

    Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>

    Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>

    kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>

    Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>

    Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>

    Cameron Knight (ckknight)

    Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>

    Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>

    Joseph Kocherhans

    konrad@gwu.edu

    lakin.wecker@gmail.com

    Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>

    Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>

    Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>

    Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>

    Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>

    lerouxb@gmail.com

    Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>

    limodou

    mattmcc

    Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>

    masonsimon+django@gmail.com

    Manuzhai

    Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>

    Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>

    mark@junklight.com

    Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>

    mattycakes@gmail.com

    Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>

    mccutchen@gmail.com

    michael.mcewan@gmail.com

    mikko@sorl.net

    mitakummaa@gmail.com

    mmarshall

    Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>

    Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>

    Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>

    Nebojša Dorđević

    Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>

    Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>

    Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>

    oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>

    Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>

    pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>

    pgross@thoughtworks.com

    phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>

    phil@produxion.net

    phil.h.smith@gmail.com

    Gustavo Picon

    Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>

    plisk

    Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>

    J. Rademaker

    Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>

    ramiro

    Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>

    remco@diji.biz

    rhettg@gmail.com

    Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>

    Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>

    David Schein

    scott@staplefish.com

    serbaut@gmail.com

    Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>

    SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>

    smurf@smurf.noris.de

    sopel

    Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>

    Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>

    nowell strite

    Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>

    Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>

    Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>

    Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>

    Tom Tobin

    Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>

    torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk

    Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>

    Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>

    Amit Upadhyay

    Geert Vanderkelen

    viestards.lists@gmail.com

    Milton Waddams

    wam-djangobug@wamber.net

    Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>

    Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>

    Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>

    Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>

    wojtek

    ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com

    ymasuda@ethercube.com

    Cheng Zhang

A big THANK YOU goes to:

    Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.

    Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for

    his sage sysadmin advice.

    Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.

    Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.

    Guido van Rossum for creating Python.