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−Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division
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−of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas.
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−The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
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−Adrian Holovaty <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with
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−Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.
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−Simon Willison <http://simon.incutio.com/>, who originally created Django with
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−Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently
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−helps from the sidelines.
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−Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly
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−before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.
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−Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, who designed Django's admin
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−interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has
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−made many other contributions. He makes us look good.
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−Malcolm Tredinnick <http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/>, who has made
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−significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database
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−layer to template system and documentation.
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−Georg "Hugo" Bauer <http://hugo.muensterland.org/>, who added
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−internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton
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−of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
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−Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>, who has contributed many excellent
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−improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
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−unit tests.
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−Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy@iinet.net.au>, who has contributed many excellent
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−improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests.
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−Robert Wittams <http://robert.wittams.com/>, who majorly refactored the Django
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−admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent
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−tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
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−And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
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−people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped
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−answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
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−    adurdin@gmail.com
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−    Andreas
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−    andy@jadedplanet.net
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−    ant9000@netwise.it
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−    David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
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−    Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
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−    Jiri Barton
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−    Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
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−    Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
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−    Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
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−    James Bennett
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−    Ben <afternoon@uk2.net>
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−    Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
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−    Simon Blanchard
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−    Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
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−    brut.alll@gmail.com
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−    Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
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−    Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
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−    C8E
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−    Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
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−    Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
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−    ChaosKCW
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−    Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
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−    crankycoder@gmail.com
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−    Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
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−    Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
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−    dackze+django@gmail.com
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−    Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
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−    Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
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−    dave@thebarproject.com
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−    Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
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−    Alex Dedul
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−    deric@monowerks.com
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−    dne@mayonnaise.net
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−    Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
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−    Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
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−    Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
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−    Clint Ecker
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−    Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
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−    Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
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−    Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
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−    Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
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−    favo@exoweb.net
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−    Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
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−    Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
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−    gandalf@owca.info
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−    Baishampayan Ghose
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−    martin.glueck@gmail.com
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−    Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
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−    Owen Griffiths
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−    Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
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−    Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
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−    Brant Harris
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−    Hawkeye
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−    Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
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−    Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
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−    hipertracker@gmail.com
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−    Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
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−    Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
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−    Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
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−    Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
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−    Tom Insam
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−    Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
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−    jcrasta@gmail.com
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−    Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
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−    jpellerin@gmail.com
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−    junzhang.jn@gmail.com
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−    Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
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−    Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
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−    Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
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−    kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
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−    Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
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−    Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
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−    Cameron Knight (ckknight)
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−    Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
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−    Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
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−    Joseph Kocherhans
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−    konrad@gwu.edu
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−    lakin.wecker@gmail.com
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−    Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
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−    Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
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−    Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
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−    Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
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−    Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
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−    lerouxb@gmail.com
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−    Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
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−    limodou
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−    mattmcc
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−    Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
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−    masonsimon+django@gmail.com
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−    Manuzhai
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−    Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
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−    Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
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−    mark@junklight.com
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−    Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
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−    mattycakes@gmail.com
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−    Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
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−    mccutchen@gmail.com
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−    michael.mcewan@gmail.com
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−    mikko@sorl.net
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−    mitakummaa@gmail.com
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−    mmarshall
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−    Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
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−    Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
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−    Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
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−    Nebojša Dorđević
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−    Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
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−    Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
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−    Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
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−    oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
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−    Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
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−    pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
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−    pgross@thoughtworks.com
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−    phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
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−    phil@produxion.net
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−    phil.h.smith@gmail.com
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−    Gustavo Picon
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−    Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
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−    plisk
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−    Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
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−    J. Rademaker
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−    Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
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−    ramiro
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−    Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
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−    remco@diji.biz
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−    rhettg@gmail.com
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−    Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
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−    Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
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−    David Schein
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−    scott@staplefish.com
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−    serbaut@gmail.com
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−    Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
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−    SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
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−    smurf@smurf.noris.de
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−    sopel
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−    Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
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−    Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
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−    nowell strite
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−    Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
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−    Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
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−    Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
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−    Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
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−    Tom Tobin
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−    Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
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−    torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
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−    Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
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−    Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
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−    Amit Upadhyay
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−    Geert Vanderkelen
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−    viestards.lists@gmail.com
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−    Milton Waddams
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−    wam-djangobug@wamber.net
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−    Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
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−    Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
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−    Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
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−    Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
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−    wojtek
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−    ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
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−    ymasuda@ethercube.com
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−    Cheng Zhang
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−A big THANK YOU goes to:
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−
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−    Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
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−
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−    Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
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−    his sage sysadmin advice.
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−    Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
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−    Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
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−    Guido van Rossum for creating Python.