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Django team
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.. _original-team-list:
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 was the
leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block." He now
develops Soundslice_.
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 Director of Platform Security at Heroku_. He worked at World
Online for four years, where he helped open source Django and found
the Django Software Foundation. Jacob lives on a hobby farm outside of
Lawrence where he spends his weekends playing with dirt and power tools.
`Wilson Miner`_
Wilson's design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He created the design
that was used for nearly the first ten years on the Django Project Web
site, as well as the current design for Django's acclaimed admin interface.
Wilson was the designer for EveryBlock and Rdio_. He now designs for
Facebook.
Wilson lives in San Francisco, USA.
.. _lawrence journal-world: http://ljworld.com/
.. _adrian holovaty: http://holovaty.com/
.. _everyblock: http://everyblock.com/
.. _soundslice: https://www.soundslice.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/
.. _heroku: https://heroku.com/
.. _Rdio: http://rdio.com
.. _core-team-list:
The current team
================
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 invited to join the :ref:`core
team <core-team>`.
`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)
`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/
`James Bennett`_
James is one of Django's release managers, and also contributes to the
documentation and provide the occasional bugfix.
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 and previously worked at
World Online; currently, he's part of the Web development team at
Mozilla.
He `keeps a blog`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to his car.
.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/
.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_
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 San Francisco, CA.
.. _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 virtualenv_ and pip_.
He has worked on Django's auth, admin and staticfiles apps as well as
the form, core, internationalization and test systems. He currently works
at Mozilla_.
Jannis lives in Berlin, Germany.
.. _Jannis Leidel: https://jezdez.com/
.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/
.. _virtualenv: http://www.virtualenv.org/
.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/
.. _Mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/
`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 San Francisco, CA, USA.
.. _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_. He became a Django contributor by accident,
because fixing bugs is more interesting than working around them.
Carl lives in Rapid City, SD, USA.
.. _Carl Meyer: http://www.oddbird.net/
.. _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: https://lincolnloop.com/
Honza Král
Honza first discovered Django in 2006 and started using it right away,
first for school and personal projects and later in his full-time job. He
contributed various patches and fixes mostly to the newforms library,
newforms admin and, through participation in the Google Summer of Code
project, assisted in creating the :ref:`model validation
<validating-objects>` functionality.
He is currently working for `Whiskey Media`_ in San Francisco developing
awesome sites running on pure Django.
.. _Whiskey Media: http://www.whiskeymedia.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.
`Idan Gazit`_
As a self-professed design geek, Idan was initially attracted to Django
sometime between magic-removal and queryset-refactor. Formally trained
as a software engineer, Idan straddles the worlds of design and code,
jack of two trades and master of none. He is passionate about usability
and finding novel ways to extract meaning from data, and is a longtime
photographer_.
Idan previously accepted freelance work under the Pixane_ imprint, but
now splits his days between his startup, Skills_, and beautifying all
things Django and Python.
.. _Idan Gazit: http://idan.gazit.me
.. _photographer: http://flickr.com/photos/idangazit
.. _Pixane: http://pixane.com
.. _Skills: http://skillsapp.com
Paul McMillan
Paul found Django in 2008 while looking for a more
structured approach to web programming. He stuck around after
figuring out that the developers of Django had already invented
many of the wheels he needed. His passion for breaking (and then
fixing) things led to his current role working to maintain and
improve the security of Django.
`Julien Phalip`_
Julien has a background in software engineering and human-computer
interaction. As a Web developer, he enjoys tinkering with the backend as
much as designing and coding user interfaces. Julien discovered Django in
2007 while doing his PhD in Computing Sciences. Since then he has
contributed patches to various components of the framework, in particular
the admin. Julien was a co-founder of the `Interaction Consortium`_. He
now works at Odopod_, a digital agency based in San Francisco, CA, USA.
.. _Julien Phalip: http://julienphalip.com
.. _Interaction Consortium: http://interaction.net.au
.. _Odopod: http://odopod.com
`Aymeric Augustin`_
Aymeric is an engineer with a background in mathematics and computer
science. He chose Django because he believes that software should be simple,
explicit and tested. His perfectionist tendencies quickly led him to triage
tickets and contribute patches.
Aymeric has a pragmatic approach to software engineering, can't live without
a continuous integration server, and likes proving that Django is a good
choice for enterprise software.
He's the CTO of Oscaro_, an e-commerce company based in Paris, France.
.. _Aymeric Augustin: https://myks.org/
.. _Oscaro: http://www.oscaro.com/
`Claude Paroz`_
Claude is a former teacher who fell in love with free software at the
beginning of the 21st century. He's now working as freelancer in Web
development in his native Switzerland. He has found in Django a perfect
match for his needs of a stable, clean, documented and well-maintained Web
framework.
He's also helping the GNOME Translation Project as maintainer of the
Django-based `l10n.gnome.org`_.
.. _Claude Paroz: http://www.2xlibre.net
.. _l10n.gnome.org: https://l10n.gnome.org
Anssi Kääriäinen
Anssi works as a developer at Finnish National Institute for Health and
Welfare. He is also a computer science student at Aalto University. In his
work he uses Django for developing internal business applications and sees
Django as a great match for that use case.
Anssi is interested in developing the object relational mapper (ORM) and
all related features. He's also a fan of benchmarking and he tries keep
Django as fast as possible.
Florian Apolloner
Florian is currently studying Physics at the `Graz University of Technology`_.
Soon after he started using Django he joined the `Ubuntuusers webteam`_ to
work on *Inyoka*, the software powering the whole Ubuntuusers site.
For the time being he lives in Graz, Austria (not Australia ;)).
.. _Graz University of Technology: http://tugraz.at/
.. _Ubuntuusers webteam: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/ubuntuusers/Webteam
Jeremy Dunck
Jeremy was rescued from corporate IT drudgery by Free Software and, in part,
Django. Many of Jeremy's interests center around access to information.
Jeremy was the lead developer of Pegasus News, one of the first uses of
Django outside World Online, and has since joined Votizen, a startup intent
on reducing the influence of money in politics.
He serves as DSF Secretary, organizes and helps organize sprints, cares
about the health and equity of the Django community. He has gone an
embarrassingly long time without a working blog.
Jeremy lives in Mountain View, CA, USA.
`Bryan Veloso`_
Bryan found Django 0.96 through a fellow designer who was evangelizing
its use. It was his first foray outside of the land that was PHP-based
templating. Although he has only ever used Django for personal projects,
it is the very reason he considers himself a designer/developer
hybrid and is working to further design within the Django community.
Bryan works as a designer at GitHub by day, and masquerades as a `vlogger`_
and `shoutcaster`_ in the after-hours. Bryan lives in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
.. _bryan veloso: http://avalonstar.com/
.. _vlogger: https://youtube.com/bryanveloso/
.. _shoutcaster: http://twitch.tv/vlogalonstar/
`Preston Holmes`_
Preston is a recovering neuroscientist who originally discovered Django as
part of a sweeping move to Python from a grab bag of half a dozen
languages. He was drawn to Django's balance of practical batteries included
philosophy, care and thought in code design, and strong open source
community. Currently working for Amazon Web Services, he is always looking
for opportunities to volunteer for community oriented education projects,
such as for kids and scientists (e.g. Software Carpentry).
Preston lives with his family and animal menagerie in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
.. _Preston Holmes: http://www.ptone.com/
`Simon Charette`_
Simon is a mathematics student who discovered Django while searching for a
replacement framework to an in-house PHP entity. Since that faithful day
Django has been a big part of his life. So far, he's been involved in some
ORM and forms API fixes.
Apart from contributing to multiple open source projects he spends most of
his spare-time playing `Ultimate Frisbee`_ and working part-time
at this awesome place called `Reptiletech`_.
Simon lives in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
.. _Simon Charette: https://github.com/charettes
.. _Ultimate Frisbee: http://www.montrealultimate.ca
.. _Reptiletech: http://www.reptiletech.com
Donald Stufft
Donald found Python and Django in 2007 while trying to find a language,
and web framework that he really enjoyed using after many years of PHP. He
fell in love with the beauty of Python and the way Django made tasks simple
and easy. His contributions to Django focus primarily on ensuring that it
is and remains a secure web framework.
Donald currently works at `Nebula Inc`_ as a Software Engineer for their
security team and lives in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
.. _Nebula Inc: https://www.nebula.com/
Marc Tamlyn
Marc started life on the web using Django 1.2 back in 2010, and has never
looked back. He was involved with rewriting the class based view
documentation at DjangoCon EU 2012, and also helped to develop `CCBV`_, an
additional class based view reference tool.
Marc is currently a full-time parent, part-time developer, and lives in
Oxford, UK.
.. _CCBV: http://ccbv.co.uk/
Shai Berger
Shai started working with Python back in 1998, and with Django just
before 1.0. He is a Free Software enthusiast, but life happens, and
he was driven by consulting gigs to contribute to the Oracle and
SQL Server backends of South, and then the Oracle backend of Django
itself. Finally, he joined core to help maintain the Oracle backend.
Shai works for `Platonix`_, a small consulting company he started
with a few friends in 1996, and lives near Tel Aviv, Israel.
.. _Platonix: http://tech.platonix.com
Baptiste Mispelon
Baptiste discovered Django around the 1.2 version and promptly switched away
from his homegrown PHP framework. He started getting more involved in the
project after attending DjangoCon EU 2012, mostly by triaging tickets and
submitting small patches.
Baptiste currently lives in Budapest, Hungary and works for `M2BPO`_,
a small French company providing services to architects.
.. _M2BPO: https://www.m2bpo.fr
Daniele Procida
Daniele unexpectedly became a Django developer on 29th April 2009. Since
then he has relied daily on Django's documentation, which has been a
constant companion to him. More recently he has been able to contribute
back to the project by helping improve the documentation itself.
He is the author of `Arkestra`_ and `Don't be afraid to commit`_. He lives
in Cardiff, Wales, and works for `Divio`_.
.. _Divio: https://divio.ch/
.. _Arkestra: http://arkestra-project.org/
.. _Don\'t be afraid to commit: https://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.org
`Erik Romijn`_
Erik started using Django in the days of 1.2. His largest contribution to Django was
``GenericIPAddressField``, and he has worked on all sorts of patches since.
While developing with Django, he always keeps a little list of even the slightest
Django frustrations, to tackle them at a later time and prevent other developers
from having to deal with the same issues.
Erik is an independent app maker, mostly developing web and mobile apps, as
`Solid Links`_. He also enjoys helping ordinary developers to build safer web apps,
for which Django is already a great start, and developed `Erik's Pony Checkup`_ with
that goal in mind. Erik lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
.. _Erik Romijn: http://erik.io/
.. _Solid Links: http://solidlinks.nl/
.. _Erik's Pony Checkup: http://ponycheckup.com/
`Loïc Bistuer`_
Loïc studied telecommunications engineering and works as an independent
software developer and consultant.
He discovered Django in 2008 shortly before the 1.0 release and has been
hooked ever since. He contributes mostly to Django's ORM and Form
components. His main contributions include advanced query prefetching,
streamlining QuerySet and Manager to improve query reusability, and a
significant refactor of forms error handling.
Loïc is originally from the South of France and currently lives in
Bangkok, Thailand.
.. _Loïc Bistuer: https://github.com/loic
`Michael Manfre`_
Michael started running Django on Windows against a Microsoft SQL Server
(MSSQL) database in 2008. He quickly became the maintainer of the
django-mssql 3rd party database backend. Much of his involvement with
Django relates to the ORM, the private 3rd party database API, and using
Django on Windows.
Michael lives in Cary, NC, USA.
.. _Michael Manfre: http://manfre.net
`Collin Anderson`_
Collin found Django in November 2006. He was in awe of the admin and ORM
and was amazed that the documentation was teaching him best web practices
like redirecting after a successful POST request. Why had he never learned
this before? No one knows to this day.
He enjoys helping people on the |django-users| mailing list and making
Django simple and easy for newcomers.
Collin lives in South Bend, IN, USA where he uses Django to `increase
unity`_.
.. _Collin Anderson: https://github.com/collinanderson
.. _increase unity: http://onetencommunications.com/about/
`Tom Christie`_
Tom has background in speech recognition, networking, and web development.
He has a particular interest in Web API design and is the original author
of `Django REST framework`_.
Tom lives in the seaside city of Brighton, UK.
.. _Tom Christie: https://twitter.com/_tomchristie
.. _Django REST framework: http://django-rest-framework.org
`Curtis Maloney`_
Curtis is a self-taught programmer from Melbourne, Australia, who eschews
specialization. Upon finding Django when it was first open sourced, he
realized it was possible to enjoy web development.
He spends a lot of time helping people on the #django IRC channel, and has
authored and released a number of `smaller django apps`_.
.. _Curtis Maloney: http://musings.tinbrain.net/blog/
.. _smaller django apps: https://github.com/funkybob/
`Markus Holtermann`_
Markus is a Master of Science student in Computer Science at `Technical
University of Berlin`_. He started working with Django in 2010 when he
joined the `ubuntuusers.de`_ web team to work on *Inyoka*. Markus made his
first contribution to the Django project during DjangoCon Europe 2013 in
Warsaw. He was the web team leader for the `EuroPython 2014 website`_.
Markus lives in Berlin, Germany.
.. _Markus Holtermann: https://github.com/MarkusH
.. _Technical University of Berlin: http://www.tu-berlin.de/
.. _ubuntuusers.de: http://ubuntuusers.de/
.. _EuroPython 2014 website: https://ep2014.europython.eu/
`Josh Smeaton`_
Josh was given the opportunity to work on a new Django app around version
1.1 after working with a homegrown PHP reporting framework. The simplicity
of the ORM and the power of the Admin were extremely liberating.
Still being involved with custom reporting applications, he decided to try
his hand at improving the ORM support for analytics. His contributions
focus on giving more power to users of the ORM.
Josh lives in Melbourne, Australia where he heads up development for a SaaS
telecommunications company.
.. _Josh Smeaton: https://github.com/jarshwah
Past team members
=================
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.
`Alex Gaynor`_
Alex was involved in many parts of Django, he contributed to the ORM,
forms, admin, amongst others; he is most known for his work on
multiple-database support in Django.
Alex lives in San Francisco, CA, USA.
.. _Alex Gaynor: https://alexgaynor.net
`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.
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 developer in the SF Bay Area, CA, USA.
.. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/
Malcolm Tredinnick
Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician and somehow ended up a
software developer. He contributed to many Open Source projects, served on
the board of the GNOME foundation, and was a great chess player.
Malcolm was deeply involved in many part of Django - most notably, the
ORM, but many other internals bear his fingerprints. Django’s support for
unicode and autoescaping in templates can both be almost entirely
attributed to Malcolm.
He was an International Man of Mystery and lived in Sydney, Australia.
*Malcolm passed away on March 17, 2013.*
Matt Boersma
Matt helped with Django's Oracle support.
Ian Kelly
Ian also helped with Oracle support.
Joseph Kocherhans
Joseph was the director of lead development at EveryBlock and previously
developed at the Lawrence Journal-World. 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
`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 email and forms systems, as well as many other
improvements and code cleanups throughout the code base.
Gary lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
.. _Gary Wilson: http://thegarywilson.com/
.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/
`Brian Rosner`_
Brian enjoys learning more about programming languages and system
architectures and contributing to open source projects.
He helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished
in time for Django 1.0.
Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.
.. _brian rosner: http://brosner.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/
.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/
.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/
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