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Cleaned up the list of authors/contributors so that people actually working on Django get some props. 

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The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been): The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
Adrian Holovaty <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with * Adrian Holovaty
Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob. * Simon Willison
* Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Simon Willison <http://simonwillison.net/>, who originally created Django with * Wilson Miner
Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently * Malcolm Tredinnick
helps from the sidelines. * Georg "Hugo" Bauer
* Luke Plant
Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly * Russell Keith-Magee
before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian. * Robert Wittams
* Gary Wilson
Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, who designed Django's admin * Brian Rosner
interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has
made many other contributions. He makes us look good.
Malcolm Tredinnick <http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/>, who has made
significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database
layer to template system and documentation.
Georg "Hugo" Bauer <http://hugo.muensterland.org/>, who added
internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton
of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>, who has contributed many excellent
improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
unit tests.
Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy@iinet.net.au>, who has contributed many excellent
improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests.
Robert Wittams <http://robert.wittams.com/>, who majorly refactored the Django
admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent
tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
More information on the main contributors to Django can be found in
docs/internals/committers.txt.
And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS -- And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped

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Who's behind this? Who's behind this?
------------------ ------------------
Django was developed at `World Online`_, the Web department of a newspaper in Django was originally developed at World Online, the Web department of a
Lawrence, Kansas, USA. newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Django's now run by an international team of
volunteers; you can read all about them over at the :ref:`list of committers
`Adrian Holovaty`_ <internals-committers>`>
Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He was lead
developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time Django was
developed and implemented on World Online's sites. Now he works for
washingtonpost.com building rich, database-backed information sites, and
continues to oversee Django development. He likes playing guitar (Django
Reinhardt style) and hacking on side projects such as `chicagocrime.org`_.
He lives in Chicago.
On IRC, Adrian goes by ``adrian_h``.
`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
Jacob is a whipper-snapper from California who spends equal time coding and
cooking. He's lead developer at World Online and actively hacks on various
cool side projects. He's contributed to the Python-ObjC bindings and was
the first guy to figure out how to write Tivo apps in Python. Lately he's
been messing with Python on the PSP. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
On IRC, Jacob goes by ``jacobkm``.
`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 has maintained a
well-read Web-development blog for years at http://simon.incutio.com.
He works for Yahoo UK, where he managed to score the title "Hacker Liason."
He lives in London.
On IRC, Simon goes by ``SimonW``.
`Wilson Miner`_
Wilson's design-fu makes us all look like rock stars. By day, he's an
interactive designer for `Apple`_. Don't ask him what he's working on, or
he'll have to kill you. He lives in San Francisco.
On IRC, Wilson goes by ``wilsonian``.
.. _`World Online`: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/WorldOnline
.. _`Adrian Holovaty`: http://www.holovaty.com/
.. _`washingtonpost.com`: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
.. _`chicagocrime.org`: http://www.chicagocrime.org/
.. _`Simon Willison`: http://simon.incutio.com/
.. _`simon.incutio.com`: http://simon.incutio.com/
.. _`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`: http://www.jacobian.org/
.. _`Wilson Miner`: http://www.wilsonminer.com/
.. _`Apple`: http://www.apple.com/
Which sites use Django? Which sites use Django?
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.. _internals-committers:
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 has maintains a well-read
`web-development blog`_. He works for `The Guardian`_.
Simon lives in Brighton, England.
`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
Jacob is a software architect at `Whiskey Media`_, one of those newfangled
Web 1.0 companies you've read so much about. A good deal of Jacob's work
time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previous worked for the Lawrence
Journal-World, 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
website 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`_
.. _the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/
.. _whiskey media: http://whiskeymedia.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 reign 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
my 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 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.
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 the 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`_
Like has contributed many excellent improvements, including database-level
improvements, the CSRF middleware and many unit tests.
.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/
Brian Rosner
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.
Gary Wilson
In early 2007, Gary start contributing a lot of cleanup fixes and fixing
broken windows. He's continued to do that necessary tidying up work
throughout the code base since then.
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
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 lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
.. _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.
Justin Bronn
Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and third-year law student at the
University of Houston who enjoys studying legal topics related to
intellectual property and spatial law.
Justin is the primary developer of ``django.contrib.gis``, a.k.a.
GeoDjango_.
.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/
Jeremy Dunck
Jeremy 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.
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
siteadmin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of
excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.

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contributing contributing
documentation documentation
committers