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Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the `Lawrence
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`Adrian Holovaty`_
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    Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He's known in
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    journalism circles as one of the pioneers of "journalism via computer
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    programming", and in technical circles as "the guy who invented Django."
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    He was lead developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time
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    Django was developed and implemented on World Online's sites. He's now the
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    leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block".
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    Adrian lives in Chicago, USA.
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`Simon Willison`_
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    Simon is a well-respected Web developer from England. He had a one-year
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    internship at World Online, during which time he and Adrian developed Django
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    from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's passionate
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    about best practices in Web development and maintains a well-read
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    `web-development blog`_.
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    Simon lives in Brighton, England.
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`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
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    Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services
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    around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's
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    work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World
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    Online, where Django was invented, where he was the lead developer of
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    Ellington, a commercial Web publishing platform for media companies.
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    Jacob lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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`Wilson Miner`_
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    Wilson's design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He designed the
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    Web site you're looking at right now, as well as Django's acclaimed admin
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    interface. Wilson is the designer for EveryBlock_.
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    Wilson lives in San Francisco, USA.
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.. _lawrence journal-world: http://ljworld.com/
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.. _adrian holovaty: http://holovaty.com/
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.. _everyblock: http://everyblock.com/
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.. _simon willison: http://simonwillison.net/
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.. _web-development blog: `simon willison`_
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.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/
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.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.com/
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.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/
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Adrian and Jacob are the Co-`Benevolent Dictators for Life`_ of Django. When
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"rough consensus and working code" fails, they're the ones who make the tough
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.. _Benevolent Dictators for Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
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record of being helpful on the mailing lists, and a proven desire to dedicate
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serious time to Django. In return, they've been granted the coveted commit bit,
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`Malcolm Tredinnick`_
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    Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician, somehow ended up a software
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    developer. He's contributed to many Open Source projects, has served on the
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    board of the GNOME foundation, and will kick your ass at chess.
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    When he's not busy being an International Man of Mystery, Malcolm lives in
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    Sydney, Australia.
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.. _malcolm tredinnick: http://www.pointy-stick.com/
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`Russell Keith-Magee`_
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    Russell studied physics as an undergraduate, and studied neural networks for
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    his PhD. His first job was with a startup in the defense industry developing
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    simulation frameworks. Over time, mostly through work with Django, he's
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    become more involved in Web development.
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    Russell has helped with several major aspects of Django, including a
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    couple major internal refactorings, creation of the test system, and more.
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    Russell lives in the most isolated capital city in the world — Perth,
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    Australia.
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.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/
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    Joseph is currently a developer at EveryBlock_, and previously worked for
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    the Lawrence Journal-World where he built most of the backend for their
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    Marketplace site. He often disappears for several days into the woods,
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    attempts to teach himself computational linguistics, and annoys his
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    neighbors with his Charango_ playing.
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    Joseph's first contribution to Django was a series of improvements to the
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    authorization system leading up to support for pluggable authorization.
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    Since then, he's worked on the new forms system, its use in the admin, and
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    many other smaller improvements.
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    Joseph lives in Chicago, USA.
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.. _charango: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango
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    At University Luke studied physics and Materials Science and also
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    met `Michael Meeks`_ who introduced him to Linux and Open Source,
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    re-igniting an interest in programming.  Since then he has
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    contributed to a number of Open Source projects and worked
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    Luke has contributed many excellent improvements to Django,
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    including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
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    many unit tests.
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    Luke currently works for a church in Bradford, UK, and part-time
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    as a freelance developer.
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.. _michael meeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meeks_(software)
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    projects. Brian is the host of the `Django Dose`_ podcasts.
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.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/
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.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/
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    Gary starting contributing patches to Django in 2006 while developing Web
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    applications for `The University of Texas`_ (UT).  Since, he has made
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    Gary is currently a developer and software engineering graduate student at
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    UT, where his dedication to spreading the ways of Python and Django never
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.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/
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    Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and attorney specializing
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    in legal topics related to intellectual property and spatial law.
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    In 2007, Justin began developing ``django.contrib.gis`` in a branch,
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    a.k.a. GeoDjango_, which was merged in time for Django 1.0.  While
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    implementing GeoDjango, Justin obtained a deep knowledge of Django's
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    internals including the ORM, the admin, and Oracle support.
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    Justin lives in Houston, Texas.
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.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/
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    Karen has a background in distributed operating systems (graduate school),
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    communications software (industry) and crossword puzzle construction
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    (freelance).  The last of these brought her to Django, in late 2006, when
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    she set out to put a Web front-end on her crossword puzzle database.
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    That done, she stuck around in the community answering questions, debugging
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    problems, etc. -- because coding puzzles are as much fun as word puzzles.
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    Karen lives in Apex, NC, USA.
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    Jannis graduated in media design from `Bauhaus-University Weimar`_,
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    is the author of a number of pluggable Django apps and likes to
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    contribute to Open Source projects like Pinax_. He currently works as
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    a freelance Web developer and designer.
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.. _Jannis Leidel: http://jezdez.com/
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.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/
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    Eldarion_. He has been doing open source software since 1993, Python
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    since 1998 and Django since 2006. He serves on the board of the Python
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    Software Foundation and is currently on a leave of absence from a PhD in
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    linguistics.
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    James currently lives in Boston, MA, USA but originally hails from
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    Perth, Western Australia where he attended the same high school as
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    Russell Keith-Magee.
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.. _James Tauber: http://jtauber.com/
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    Alex is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is also an
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    since he found out you don't need to write out your forms by hand.  He has
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    a small obsession with compilers.  He's contributed to the ORM, forms,
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    admin, and other components of Django.
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    Alex lives in Chicago, IL, but spends most of his time in Troy, NY.
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    Andrew is a freelance Python developer and tinkerer, and has been
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    Andrew lives in London, UK.
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.. _Andrew Godwin: http://www.aeracode.org/
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    Carl has been working with Django since 2007 (long enough to remember
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    developer with OddBird_ and Eldarion_. He became a Django contributor by
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    Carl lives in Elkhart, IN, USA.
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.. _OddBird: http://www.oddbird.net/
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    Chris has been submitting patches and suggesting crazy ideas for Django
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    Chris lives in Napier, New Zealand (adding to the pool of Oceanic core
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    developers). He works remotely as a developer for `Lincoln Loop`_.
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.. _Chris Beaven: http://smileychris.com/
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.. _Lincoln Loop: http://lincolnloop.com/
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    James is Django's release manager; he also contributes to the documentation.
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    James came to Web development from philosophy when he discovered
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    that programmers get to argue just as much while collecting much
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    better pay. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he works for the
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    Journal-World developing Ellington. He `keeps a blog`_, has
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    written a `book on Django`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to
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    his car.
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.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/
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.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_
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.. _book on Django: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590599969/?tag=djangoproject-20
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    Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle.
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    Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.
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    Jeremy is the lead developer of Pegasus News, a personalized local site based
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    in Dallas, Texas. An early contributor to Greasemonkey and Django, he sees
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    technology as a tool for communication and access to knowledge.
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    Jeremy helped kick off GeoDjango development, and is mostly responsible for
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    the serious speed improvements that signals received in Django 1.0.
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    Jeremy lives in Dallas, Texas, USA.
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    Simon discovered Django 0.96 during his Computer Science PhD research and
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    has been developing with it full-time ever since. His core code
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    contributions are mostly in Django's admin application. He is also helping
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    to improve Django's documentation.
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    Simon works as a freelance developer based in Wollongong, Australia.
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.. _simon meers: http://simonmeers.com/
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    Gabriel has been working with Django since 2008, shortly after the 1.0
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    release. Convinced by his business partner that Python and Django were the
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    right direction for the company, he couldn't have been more happy with the
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    decision. His contributions range across many areas in Django, but years of
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    copy-editing and an eye for detail lead him to be particularly at home
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    while working on Django's documentation.
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    Gabriel works as a web developer in Berkeley, CA, USA.
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.. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/
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    When exploring Web frameworks for an independent study project in the fall
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    of 2008, Tim discovered Django and was lured to it by the documentation.
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    He enjoys contributing to the docs because they're awesome.
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    Tim works as a software engineer and lives in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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    contributions and made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug
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    fixes.
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    Robert was responsible for the *first* refactoring of Django's admin
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    application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of
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    excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.