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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://simonwillison.net/>, 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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* Adrian Holovaty
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* Simon Willison
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* Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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* Wilson Miner
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* Malcolm Tredinnick
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* Georg "Hugo" Bauer
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* Luke Plant
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* Russell Keith-Magee
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* Robert Wittams
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* Gary Wilson
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* Brian Rosner
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More information on the main contributors to Django can be found in
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docs/internals/committers.txt.
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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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Who's behind this?
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Django was developed at `World Online`_, the Web department of a newspaper in
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Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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`Adrian Holovaty`_
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Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He was lead
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developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time Django was
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developed and implemented on World Online's sites. Now he works for
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washingtonpost.com building rich, database-backed information sites, and
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continues to oversee Django development. He likes playing guitar (Django
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Reinhardt style) and hacking on side projects such as `chicagocrime.org`_.
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He lives in Chicago.
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On IRC, Adrian goes by ``adrian_h``.
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`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
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Jacob is a whipper-snapper from California who spends equal time coding and
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cooking. He's lead developer at World Online and actively hacks on various
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cool side projects. He's contributed to the Python-ObjC bindings and was
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the first guy to figure out how to write Tivo apps in Python. Lately he's
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been messing with Python on the PSP. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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On IRC, Jacob goes by ``jacobkm``.
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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
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Django from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's
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passionate about best practices in Web development and has maintained a
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well-read Web-development blog for years at http://simon.incutio.com.
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He works for Yahoo UK, where he managed to score the title "Hacker Liason."
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He lives in London.
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On IRC, Simon goes by ``SimonW``.
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`Wilson Miner`_
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Wilson's design-fu makes us all look like rock stars. By day, he's an
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interactive designer for `Apple`_. Don't ask him what he's working on, or
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he'll have to kill you. He lives in San Francisco.
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On IRC, Wilson goes by ``wilsonian``.
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.. _`World Online`: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/WorldOnline
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.. _`Adrian Holovaty`: http://www.holovaty.com/
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.. _`washingtonpost.com`: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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.. _`chicagocrime.org`: http://www.chicagocrime.org/
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.. _`Simon Willison`: http://simon.incutio.com/
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.. _`simon.incutio.com`: http://simon.incutio.com/
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.. _`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`: http://www.jacobian.org/
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.. _`Wilson Miner`: http://www.wilsonminer.com/
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.. _`Apple`: http://www.apple.com/
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Django was originally developed at World Online, the Web department of a
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newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Django's now run by an international team of
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volunteers; you can read all about them over at the :ref:`list of committers
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<internals-committers>`>
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Which sites use Django?
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.. _internals-committers:
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Django committers
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=================
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The original team
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=================
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Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the `Lawrence
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Journal-World`_ of Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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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 has maintains a well-read
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`web-development blog`_. He works for `The Guardian`_.
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Simon lives in Brighton, England.
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`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
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Jacob is a software architect at `Whiskey Media`_, one of those newfangled
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Web 1.0 companies you've read so much about. A good deal of Jacob's work
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time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previous worked for the Lawrence
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Journal-World, where he was the lead developer of Ellington, a commercial
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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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website 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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.. _the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/
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.. _whiskey media: http://whiskeymedia.com/
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.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/
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Current developers
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Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.
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BDFLs
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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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decisions.
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.. _Benevolent Dictators for Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
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Core developers
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---------------
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These are the folks who have a long history of contributions, a solid track
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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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and have free reign to hack on all parts of Django.
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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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my 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 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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Joseph Kocherhans
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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 the 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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`Luke Plant`_
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Like has contributed many excellent improvements, including database-level
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improvements, the CSRF middleware and many unit tests.
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.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/
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Brian Rosner
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Brian helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished
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in time for Django 1.0; he's now a full committer, continuing to improve on
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the admin and forms system.
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Gary Wilson
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In early 2007, Gary start contributing a lot of cleanup fixes and fixing
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broken windows. He's continued to do that necessary tidying up work
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throughout the code base since then.
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Specialists
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`James Bennett`_
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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 that
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programmers get to argue just as much while collecting much better pay. He
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where he works for the Journal-World developing Ellington. He `keeps a
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blog`_, has written a `book on Django`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to
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his car.
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James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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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 Kelly
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Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle.
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Matt Boersma
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Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.
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Justin Bronn
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Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and third-year law student at the
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University of Houston who enjoys studying legal topics related to
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intellectual property and spatial law.
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Justin is the primary developer of ``django.contrib.gis``, a.k.a.
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GeoDjango_.
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.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/
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Jeremy Dunck
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Jeremy 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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Developers Emeritus
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===================
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Georg "Hugo" Bauer
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Georg created Django's internationalization system, managed i18n
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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 Wittams
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Robert was responsible for the *first* refactoring of Django's admin
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siteadmin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of
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excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
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