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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
+==================
+Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.
+BDFLs
+-----
+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
+---------------
+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
+-----------
+`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
+===================
+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.