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 <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with
Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.

Simon Willison <http://simon.incutio.com/>, who originally created Django with
Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently
helps from the sidelines.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly
before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.

Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, 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 <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.


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:

    akaihola
    Andreas
    ant9000@netwise.it
    David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
    Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
    Jiri Barton
    Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
    Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
    James Bennett
    Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
    Simon Blanchard
    Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
    andy@jadedplanet.net
    Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
    C8E
    Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
    Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
    ChaosKCW
    Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
    crankycoder@gmail.com
    Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
    Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
    Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
    Alex Dedul
    deric@monowerks.com
    dne@mayonnaise.net
    Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
    Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
    Clint Ecker
    gandalf@owca.info
    Baishampayan Ghose
    martin.glueck@gmail.com
    Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
    Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
    Brant Harris
    hipertracker@gmail.com
    Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
    Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
    Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
    Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
    jcrasta@gmail.com
    Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
    jpellerin@gmail.com
    junzhang.jn@gmail.com
    Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
    kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
    Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
    Cameron Knight (ckknight)
    Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
    Joseph Kocherhans
    konrad@gwu.edu
    lakin.wecker@gmail.com
    Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
    Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
    Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
    limodou
    Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
    Manuzhai
    Petar Marić
    mark@junklight.com
    mattycakes@gmail.com
    Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
    michael.mcewan@gmail.com
    mmarshall
    Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
    Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
    Nebojša Dorđević
    Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
    Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
    oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
    Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
    pgross@thoughtworks.com
    phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
    phil@produxion.net
    Gustavo Picon
    Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
    plisk
    Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
    J. Rademaker
    Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
    ramiro
    Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
    rhettg@gmail.com
    Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
    Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
    David Schein
    serbaut@gmail.com
    Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
    SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
    sopel
    Thomas Steinacher <tom@eggdrop.ch>
    Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
    Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
    Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
    Tom Tobin
    Tom Insam
    Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
    Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
    Amit Upadhyay
    Geert Vanderkelen
    Milton Waddams
    Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
    Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
    wojtek
    ye7cakf02@sneakemail.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.