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+=================
+Django committers
+=================
+
+The original team
+=================
+
+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.