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Django committers

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The original team

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Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the `Lawrence

Journal-World`_ of Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

`Adrian Holovaty`_

    Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He's known in

    journalism circles as one of the pioneers of "journalism via computer

    programming", and in technical circles as "the guy who invented Django."

    He was lead developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time

    Django was developed and implemented on World Online's sites. He's now the

    leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block".

    Adrian lives in Chicago, USA.

`Simon Willison`_

    Simon is a well-respected Web developer from England. He had a one-year

    internship at World Online, during which time he and Adrian developed Django

    from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's passionate

    about best practices in Web development and maintains a well-read

    `web-development blog`_.

    Simon lives in Brighton, England.

`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_

    Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services

    around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's

    work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World

    Online, where Django was invented, where he was the lead developer of

    Ellington, a commercial Web publishing platform for media companies.

    Jacob lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

`Wilson Miner`_

    Wilson's design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He designed the

    Web site you're looking at right now, as well as Django's acclaimed admin

    interface. Wilson is the designer for EveryBlock_.

    Wilson lives in San Francisco, USA.

.. _lawrence journal-world: http://ljworld.com/

.. _adrian holovaty: http://holovaty.com/

.. _everyblock: http://everyblock.com/

.. _simon willison: http://simonwillison.net/

.. _web-development blog: `simon willison`_

.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/

.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.com/

.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/

Current developers

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Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.

BDFLs

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Adrian and Jacob are the Co-`Benevolent Dictators for Life`_ of Django. When

"rough consensus and working code" fails, they're the ones who make the tough

decisions.

.. _Benevolent Dictators for Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life

Core developers

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These are the folks who have a long history of contributions, a solid track

record of being helpful on the mailing lists, and a proven desire to dedicate

serious time to Django. In return, they've been granted the coveted commit bit,

and have free rein to hack on all parts of Django.

`Malcolm Tredinnick`_

    Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician, somehow ended up a software

    developer. He's contributed to many Open Source projects, has served on the

    board of the GNOME foundation, and will kick your ass at chess.

    When he's not busy being an International Man of Mystery, Malcolm lives in

    Sydney, Australia.

.. _malcolm tredinnick: http://www.pointy-stick.com/

`Russell Keith-Magee`_

    Russell studied physics as an undergraduate, and studied neural networks for

    his PhD. His first job was with a startup in the defense industry developing

    simulation frameworks. Over time, mostly through work with Django, he's

    become more involved in Web development.

    Russell has helped with several major aspects of Django, including a

    couple major internal refactorings, creation of the test system, and more.

    Russell lives in the most isolated capital city in the world — Perth,

    Australia.

.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/

Joseph Kocherhans

    Joseph is currently a developer at EveryBlock_, and previously worked for

    the Lawrence Journal-World where he built most of the backend for their

    Marketplace site. He often disappears for several days into the woods,

    attempts to teach himself computational linguistics, and annoys his

    neighbors with his Charango_ playing.

    Joseph's first contribution to Django was a series of improvements to the

    authorization system leading up to support for pluggable authorization.

    Since then, he's worked on the new forms system, its use in the admin, and

    many other smaller improvements.

    Joseph lives in Chicago, USA.

.. _charango: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango

`Luke Plant`_

    At University Luke studied physics and Materials Science and also

    met `Michael Meeks`_ who introduced him to Linux and Open Source,

    re-igniting an interest in programming.  Since then he has

    contributed to a number of Open Source projects and worked

    professionally as a developer.

    Luke has contributed many excellent improvements to Django,

    including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and

    many unit tests.

    Luke currently works for a church in Bradford, UK, and part-time

    as a freelance developer.

.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/

.. _michael meeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meeks_(software)

`Brian Rosner`_

    Brian is currently the tech lead at Eldarion_ managing and developing

    Django / Pinax_ based Web sites. He enjoys learning more about programming

    languages and system architectures and contributing to open source

    projects. Brian is the host of the `Django Dose`_ podcasts.

    Brian helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished

    in time for Django 1.0; he's now a full committer, continuing to improve on

    the admin and forms system.

    Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.

.. _brian rosner: http://oebfare.com/

.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/

.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/

`Gary Wilson`_

    Gary starting contributing patches to Django in 2006 while developing Web

    applications for `The University of Texas`_ (UT).  Since, he has made

    contributions to the e-mail and forms systems, as well as many other

    improvements and code cleanups throughout the code base.

    Gary is currently a developer and software engineering graduate student at

    UT, where his dedication to spreading the ways of Python and Django never

    ceases.

    Gary lives in Austin, Texas, USA.

.. _Gary Wilson: http://gdub.wordpress.com/

.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/

Justin Bronn

    Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and attorney specializing

    in legal topics related to intellectual property and spatial law.

    In 2007, Justin began developing ``django.contrib.gis`` in a branch,

    a.k.a. GeoDjango_, which was merged in time for Django 1.0.  While

    implementing GeoDjango, Justin obtained a deep knowledge of Django's

    internals including the ORM, the admin, and Oracle support.

    Justin lives in Houston, Texas.

.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/

Karen Tracey

    Karen has a background in distributed operating systems (graduate school),

    communications software (industry) and crossword puzzle construction

    (freelance).  The last of these brought her to Django, in late 2006, when

    she set out to put a Web front-end on her crossword puzzle database.

    That done, she stuck around in the community answering questions, debugging

    problems, etc. -- because coding puzzles are as much fun as word puzzles.

    Karen lives in Apex, NC, USA.

`Jannis Leidel`_

    Jannis graduated in media design from `Bauhaus-University Weimar`_,

    is the author of a number of pluggable Django apps and likes to

    contribute to Open Source projects like Pinax_. He currently works as

    a freelance Web developer and designer.

    Jannis lives in Berlin, Germany.

.. _Jannis Leidel: http://jezdez.com/

.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/

.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/

`James Tauber`_

    James is the lead developer of Pinax_ and the CEO and founder of

    Eldarion_. He has been doing open source software since 1993, Python

    since 1998 and Django since 2006. He serves on the board of the Python

    Software Foundation and is currently on a leave of absence from a PhD in

    linguistics.

    James currently lives in Boston, MA, USA but originally hails from

    Perth, Western Australia where he attended the same high school as

    Russell Keith-Magee.

.. _James Tauber: http://jtauber.com/

`Alex Gaynor`_

    Alex is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is also an

    independent contractor.  He found Django in 2007 and has been addicted ever

    since he found out you don't need to write out your forms by hand.  He has

    a small obsession with compilers.  He's contributed to the ORM, forms,

    admin, and other components of Django.

    Alex lives in Chicago, IL, but spends most of his time in Troy, NY.

.. _Alex Gaynor: http://alexgaynor.net

`Andrew Godwin`_

    Andrew is a freelance Python developer and tinkerer, and has been

    developing against Django since 2007. He graduated from Oxford University

    with a degree in Computer Science, and has become most well known

    in the Django community for his work on South, the schema migrations

    library.

    Andrew lives in London, UK.

.. _Andrew Godwin: http://www.aeracode.org/

`Carl Meyer`_

    Carl has been working with Django since 2007 (long enough to remember

    queryset-refactor, but not magic-removal), and works as a freelance

    developer with OddBird_ and Eldarion_. He became a Django contributor by

    accident, because fixing bugs is more interesting than working around

    them.

    Carl lives in Elkhart, IN, USA.

.. _Carl Meyer: http://www.oddbird.net/about/#hcard-carl

.. _OddBird: http://www.oddbird.net/

Ramiro Morales

    Ramiro has been reading Django source code and submitting patches since

    mid-2006 after researching for a Python Web tool with matching awesomeness

    and being pointed to it by an old ninja.

    A software developer in the electronic transactions industry, he is a

    living proof of the fact that anyone with enough enthusiasm can contribute

    to Django, learning a lot and having fun in the process.

    Ramiro lives in Córdoba, Argentina.

`Chris Beaven`_

    Chris has been submitting patches and suggesting crazy ideas for Django

    since early 2006. An advocate for community involvement and a long-term

    triager, he is still often found answering questions in the #django IRC

    channel.

    Chris lives in Napier, New Zealand (adding to the pool of Oceanic core

    developers). He works remotely as a developer for `Lincoln Loop`_.

.. _Chris Beaven: http://smileychris.com/

.. _Lincoln Loop: http://lincolnloop.com/

Specialists

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`James Bennett`_

    James is Django's release manager; he also contributes to the documentation.

    James came to Web development from philosophy when he discovered

    that programmers get to argue just as much while collecting much

    better pay. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he works for the

    Journal-World developing Ellington. He `keeps a blog`_, has

    written a `book on Django`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to

    his car.

.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/

.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_

.. _book on Django: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590599969/?tag=djangoproject-20

Ian Kelly

    Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle.

Matt Boersma

    Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.

Jeremy Dunck

    Jeremy is the lead developer of Pegasus News, a personalized local site based

    in Dallas, Texas. An early contributor to Greasemonkey and Django, he sees

    technology as a tool for communication and access to knowledge.

    Jeremy helped kick off GeoDjango development, and is mostly responsible for

    the serious speed improvements that signals received in Django 1.0.

    Jeremy lives in Dallas, Texas, USA.

`Simon Meers`_

    Simon discovered Django 0.96 during his Computer Science PhD research and

    has been developing with it full-time ever since. His core code

    contributions are mostly in Django's admin application. He is also helping

    to improve Django's documentation.

    Simon works as a freelance developer based in Wollongong, Australia.

.. _simon meers: http://simonmeers.com/

`Gabriel Hurley`_

    Gabriel has been working with Django since 2008, shortly after the 1.0

    release. Convinced by his business partner that Python and Django were the

    right direction for the company, he couldn't have been more happy with the

    decision. His contributions range across many areas in Django, but years of

    copy-editing and an eye for detail lead him to be particularly at home

    while working on Django's documentation.

    Gabriel works as a web developer in Berkeley, CA, USA.

.. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/

Tim Graham

    When exploring Web frameworks for an independent study project in the fall

    of 2008, Tim discovered Django and was lured to it by the documentation.

    He enjoys contributing to the docs because they're awesome.

    Tim works as a software engineer and lives in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Developers Emeritus

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Georg "Hugo" Bauer

    Georg created Django's internationalization system, managed i18n

    contributions and made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug

    fixes.

Robert Wittams

    Robert was responsible for the *first* refactoring of Django's admin

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

    excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.