Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division
of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas.
The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
Adrian Holovaty , who originally created Django with
Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.
Simon Willison , who originally created Django with
Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently
helps from the sidelines.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss , who joined the team shortly
before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.
Wilson Miner , who designed Django's admin
interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has
made many other contributions. He makes us look good.
Malcolm Tredinnick , who has made
significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database
layer to template system and documentation.
Georg "Hugo" Bauer , who added
internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton
of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
Luke Plant , who has contributed many excellent
improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
unit tests.
Russell Keith-Magee , who has contributed many excellent
improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests.
Robert Wittams , 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.
And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped
answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
alang@bright-green.com
Marty Alchin
Daniel Alves Barbosa de Oliveira Vaz
Andreas
andy@jadedplanet.net
Fabrice Aneche
ant9000@netwise.it
David Ascher
david@kazserve.org
Arthur
axiak@mit.edu
Jiri Barton
Ned Batchelder
Shannon -jj Behrens
Esdras Beleza
James Bennett
Ben
Paul Bissex
Simon Blanchard
Andrew Brehaut
brut.alll@gmail.com
Jonathan Buchanan
Antonio Cavedoni
C8E
Chris Chamberlin
Amit Chakradeo
ChaosKCW
ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
Bryan Chow
Michal Chruszcz
Ian Clelland
crankycoder@gmail.com
Pete Crosier
Matt Croydon
flavio.curella@gmail.com
Jure Cuhalev
dackze+django@gmail.com
David Danier
Dirk Datzert
Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus)
dave@thebarproject.com
Jason Davies (Esaj)
Alex Dedul
deric@monowerks.com
Max Derkachev
Jordan Dimov
dne@mayonnaise.net
Maximillian Dornseif
Jeremy Dunck
Andrew Durdin
Andy Dustman
Clint Ecker
enlight
Enrico
Ludvig Ericson
Dirk Eschler
Marc Fargas
favo@exoweb.net
Bill Fenner
Stefane Fermgier
Afonso Fernández Nogueira
Matthew Flanagan
Eric Floehr
Jorge Gajon
gandalf@owca.info
Baishampayan Ghose
glin@seznam.cz
martin.glueck@gmail.com
GomoX
Simon Greenhill
Owen Griffiths
Espen Grindhaug
Brian Harring
Brant Harris
Hawkeye
Joe Heck
Joel Heenan
hipertracker@gmail.com
Ian Holsman
Kieran Holland
Sung-Jin Hong
Robert Rock Howard
Jason Huggins
Hyun Mi Ae
Tom Insam
Baurzhan Ismagulov
jcrasta@gmail.com
Zak Johnson
Michael Josephson
jpellerin@gmail.com
junzhang.jn@gmail.com
Antti Kaihola
Ben Dean Kawamura
ian.g.kelly@gmail.com
Garth Kidd
kilian
Sune Kirkeby
Bastian Kleineidam
Cameron Knight (ckknight)
Gasper Koren
Martin Kosír
Meir Kriheli
Bruce Kroeze
Joseph Kocherhans
konrad@gwu.edu
lakin.wecker@gmail.com
Nick Lane
Stuart Langridge
Nicola Larosa
Eugene Lazutkin
Jeong-Min Lee
Jannis Leidel
Christopher Lenz
lerouxb@gmail.com
Waylan Limberg
limodou
Matt McClanahan
Martin Maney
masonsimon+django@gmail.com
Manuzhai
Petar Marić
Nuno Mariz
marijn@metronomo.cl
mark@junklight.com
Yasushi Masuda
mattycakes@gmail.com
Jason McBrayer
mccutchen@gmail.com
michael.mcewan@gmail.com
mikko@sorl.net
mitakummaa@gmail.com
mmarshall
Reza Mohammadi
Eric Moritz
mrmachine
Robin Munn
Robert Myers
Nebojša Dorđević
Gopal Narayanan
Fraser Nevett
Sam Newman
Neal Norwitz
oggie rob
Jay Parlar
pavithran s
Barry Pederson
petr.marhoun@gmail.com
pgross@thoughtworks.com
phaedo
phil@produxion.net
phil.h.smith@gmail.com
Gustavo Picon
Luke Plant
plisk
Daniel Poelzleithner
polpak@yahoo.com
J. Rademaker
Michael Radziej
Ramiro Morales
Massimiliano Ravelli
Brian Ray
remco@diji.biz
rhettg@gmail.com
Henrique Romano
Armin Ronacher
Oliver Rutherfurd
Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac)
Vinay Sajip
David Schein
scott@staplefish.com
serbaut@gmail.com
Pete Shinners
SmileyChris
smurf@smurf.noris.de
sopel
Wiliam Alves de Souza
Georgi Stanojevski
Vasiliy Stavenko
Thomas Steinacher
nowell strite
Radek Švarz
Swaroop C H
Aaron Swartz
Ville Säävuori
Tyson Tate
Frank Tegtmeyer
thebjorn
Zach Thompson
Tom Tobin
Joe Topjian
torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
Karen Tracey
Makoto Tsuyuki
tt@gurgle.no
Amit Upadhyay
Geert Vanderkelen
viestards.lists@gmail.com
Milton Waddams
wam-djangobug@wamber.net
wangchun
Dan Watson
Chris Wesseling
James Wheare
charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
Rachel Willmer
Gary Wilson
wojtek
ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
ymasuda@ethercube.com
Cheng Zhang
A big THANK YOU goes to:
Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
his sage sysadmin advice.
Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
Guido van Rossum for creating Python.