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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 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
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.
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
application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of
excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.