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Django committers
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The original team
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Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the `Lawrence
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Journal-World`_ of Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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`Adrian Holovaty`_
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Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He's known in
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journalism circles as one of the pioneers of "journalism via computer
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programming", and in technical circles as "the guy who invented Django."
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He was lead developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time
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Django was developed and implemented on World Online's sites. He's now the
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leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block".
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Adrian lives in Chicago, USA.
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`Simon Willison`_
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Simon is a well-respected Web developer from England. He had a one-year
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internship at World Online, during which time he and Adrian developed Django
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from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's passionate
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about best practices in Web development and maintains a well-read
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`web-development blog`_.
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Simon lives in Brighton, England.
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`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
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Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services
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around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's
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work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World
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Online, where Django was invented, where he was the lead developer of
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Ellington, a commercial Web publishing platform for media companies.
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Jacob lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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`Wilson Miner`_
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Wilson's design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He designed the
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Web site you're looking at right now, as well as Django's acclaimed admin
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interface. Wilson is the designer for EveryBlock_.
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Wilson lives in San Francisco, USA.
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.. _lawrence journal-world: http://ljworld.com/
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.. _adrian holovaty: http://holovaty.com/
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.. _everyblock: http://everyblock.com/
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.. _simon willison: http://simonwillison.net/
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.. _web-development blog: `simon willison`_
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.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/
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.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.com/
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.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/
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Current developers
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Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.
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.. _django-bdfls:
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BDFLs
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Adrian and Jacob are the Co-`Benevolent Dictators for Life`_ of Django. When
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"rough consensus and working code" fails, they're the ones who make the tough
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decisions.
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.. _Benevolent Dictators for Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
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Core developers
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These are the folks who have a long history of contributions, a solid track
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record of being helpful on the mailing lists, and a proven desire to dedicate
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serious time to Django. In return, they've been granted the coveted commit bit,
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and have free rein to hack on all parts of Django.
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`Malcolm Tredinnick`_
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Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician, somehow ended up a software
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developer. He's contributed to many Open Source projects, has served on the
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board of the GNOME foundation, and will kick your ass at chess.
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When he's not busy being an International Man of Mystery, Malcolm lives in
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Sydney, Australia.
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.. _malcolm tredinnick: http://www.pointy-stick.com/
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`Russell Keith-Magee`_
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Russell studied physics as an undergraduate, and studied neural networks for
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his PhD. His first job was with a startup in the defense industry developing
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simulation frameworks. Over time, mostly through work with Django, he's
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become more involved in Web development.
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Russell has helped with several major aspects of Django, including a
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couple major internal refactorings, creation of the test system, and more.
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Russell lives in the most isolated capital city in the world — Perth,
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Australia.
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.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/
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Joseph Kocherhans
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Joseph is currently a developer at EveryBlock_, and previously worked for
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the Lawrence Journal-World where he built most of the backend for their
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Marketplace site. He often disappears for several days into the woods,
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attempts to teach himself computational linguistics, and annoys his
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neighbors with his Charango_ playing.
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Joseph's first contribution to Django was a series of improvements to the
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authorization system leading up to support for pluggable authorization.
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Since then, he's worked on the new forms system, its use in the admin, and
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many other smaller improvements.
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Joseph lives in Chicago, USA.
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.. _charango: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango
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`Luke Plant`_
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At University Luke studied physics and Materials Science and also
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met `Michael Meeks`_ who introduced him to Linux and Open Source,
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re-igniting an interest in programming. Since then he has
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contributed to a number of Open Source projects and worked
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professionally as a developer.
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Luke has contributed many excellent improvements to Django,
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including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
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many unit tests.
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Luke currently works for a church in Bradford, UK, and part-time
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as a freelance developer.
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.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/
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.. _michael meeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meeks_(software)
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`Brian Rosner`_
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Brian is currently the tech lead at Eldarion_ managing and developing
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Django / Pinax_ based Web sites. He enjoys learning more about programming
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languages and system architectures and contributing to open source
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projects. Brian is the host of the `Django Dose`_ podcasts.
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Brian helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished
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in time for Django 1.0; he's now a full committer, continuing to improve on
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the admin and forms system.
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Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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.. _brian rosner: http://oebfare.com/
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.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/
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.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/
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`Gary Wilson`_
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Gary starting contributing patches to Django in 2006 while developing Web
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applications for `The University of Texas`_ (UT). Since, he has made
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contributions to the email and forms systems, as well as many other
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improvements and code cleanups throughout the code base.
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Gary is currently a developer and software engineering graduate student at
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UT, where his dedication to spreading the ways of Python and Django never
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ceases.
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Gary lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
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.. _Gary Wilson: http://gdub.wordpress.com/
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.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/
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Justin Bronn
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Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and attorney specializing
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in legal topics related to intellectual property and spatial law.
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In 2007, Justin began developing ``django.contrib.gis`` in a branch,
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a.k.a. GeoDjango_, which was merged in time for Django 1.0. While
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implementing GeoDjango, Justin obtained a deep knowledge of Django's
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internals including the ORM, the admin, and Oracle support.
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Justin lives in Houston, Texas.
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.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/
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Karen Tracey
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Karen has a background in distributed operating systems (graduate school),
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communications software (industry) and crossword puzzle construction
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(freelance). The last of these brought her to Django, in late 2006, when
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she set out to put a Web front-end on her crossword puzzle database.
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That done, she stuck around in the community answering questions, debugging
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problems, etc. -- because coding puzzles are as much fun as word puzzles.
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Karen lives in Apex, NC, USA.
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`Jannis Leidel`_
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Jannis graduated in media design from `Bauhaus-University Weimar`_,
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is the author of a number of pluggable Django apps and likes to
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contribute to Open Source projects like Pinax_. He currently works as
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a freelance Web developer and designer.
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Jannis lives in Berlin, Germany.
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.. _Jannis Leidel: http://jezdez.com/
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.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/
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.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/
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`James Tauber`_
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James is the lead developer of Pinax_ and the CEO and founder of
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Eldarion_. He has been doing open source software since 1993, Python
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since 1998 and Django since 2006. He serves on the board of the Python
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Software Foundation and is currently on a leave of absence from a PhD in
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linguistics.
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James currently lives in Boston, MA, USA but originally hails from
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Perth, Western Australia where he attended the same high school as
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Russell Keith-Magee.
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.. _James Tauber: http://jtauber.com/
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`Alex Gaynor`_
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Alex is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is also an
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independent contractor. He found Django in 2007 and has been addicted ever
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since he found out you don't need to write out your forms by hand. He has
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a small obsession with compilers. He's contributed to the ORM, forms,
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admin, and other components of Django.
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Alex lives in Chicago, IL, but spends most of his time in Troy, NY.
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.. _Alex Gaynor: http://alexgaynor.net
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`Andrew Godwin`_
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Andrew is a freelance Python developer and tinkerer, and has been
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developing against Django since 2007. He graduated from Oxford University
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with a degree in Computer Science, and has become most well known
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in the Django community for his work on South, the schema migrations
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library.
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Andrew lives in London, UK.
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.. _Andrew Godwin: http://www.aeracode.org/
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`Carl Meyer`_
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Carl has been working with Django since 2007 (long enough to remember
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queryset-refactor, but not magic-removal), and works as a freelance
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developer with OddBird_ and Eldarion_. He became a Django contributor by
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accident, because fixing bugs is more interesting than working around
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them.
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Carl lives in Elkhart, IN, USA.
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.. _Carl Meyer: http://www.oddbird.net/about/#hcard-carl
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.. _OddBird: http://www.oddbird.net/
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Ramiro Morales
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Ramiro has been reading Django source code and submitting patches since
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mid-2006 after researching for a Python Web tool with matching awesomeness
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and being pointed to it by an old ninja.
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A software developer in the electronic transactions industry, he is a
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living proof of the fact that anyone with enough enthusiasm can contribute
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to Django, learning a lot and having fun in the process.
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Ramiro lives in Córdoba, Argentina.
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`Chris Beaven`_
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Chris has been submitting patches and suggesting crazy ideas for Django
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since early 2006. An advocate for community involvement and a long-term
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triager, he is still often found answering questions in the #django IRC
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channel.
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Chris lives in Napier, New Zealand (adding to the pool of Oceanic core
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developers). He works remotely as a developer for `Lincoln Loop`_.
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.. _Chris Beaven: http://smileychris.com/
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.. _Lincoln Loop: http://lincolnloop.com/
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Honza Král
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Honza first discovered Django in 2006 and started using it right away,
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first for school and personal projects and later in his full time job. He
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contributed various patches and fixes mostly to the newforms library,
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newforms admin and, through participation in the Google Summer of Code
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project, assisted in creating the :ref:`model validation
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<validating-objects>` functionality.
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He is currently working for `Whiskey Media`_ in San Francisco developing
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awesome sites running on pure Django.
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.. _Whiskey Media: http://www.whiskeymedia.com/
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`Idan Gazit`_
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As a self-professed design geek, Idan was initially attracted to Django
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sometime between magic-removal and queryset-refactor. Formally trained
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as a software engineer, Idan straddles the worlds of design and code,
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jack of two trades and master of none. He is passionate about usability
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and finding novel ways to extract meaning from data, and is a longtime
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photographer_.
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Idan previously accepted freelance work under the Pixane_ imprint, but
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now splits his days between his startup, Skills_, and beautifying all
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things Django and Python.
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.. _Idan Gazit: http://idan.gazit.me
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.. _photographer: http://flickr.com/photos/idangazit
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.. _Pixane: http://pixane.com
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.. _Skills: http://skillsapp.com
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`Paul McMillan`_
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Paul found Django in 2008 while looking for a more
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structured approach to web programming. He stuck around after
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figuring out that the developers of Django had already invented
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many of the wheels he needed. His passion for breaking (and then
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fixing) things led to his current role working to maintain and
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improve the security of Django.
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Paul works in Berkeley, California as a `web developer`_ and `security
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consultant`_.
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.. _Paul McMillan: http://subversivecode.com
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.. _web developer: http://zerocoordinate.com
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.. _security consultant: http://subversivecode.com/about
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`Julien Phalip`_
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Julien has a background in software engineering and human-computer
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interaction. As a Web developer, he enjoys tinkering with the backend as
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much as designing and coding user interfaces. Julien discovered Django in
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2007 while doing his PhD in Computing Sciences. Since then he has
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contributed patches to various components of the framework, in particular
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the admin. Julien was a co-founder of the `Interaction Consortium`_. He
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now works as a freelance Web developer and interaction designer.
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Julien lives in Sydney, Australia.
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.. _Julien Phalip: http://julienphalip.com
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.. _Interaction Consortium: http://interaction.net.au
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Specialists
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`James Bennett`_
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James is Django's release manager, and also contributes to the
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documentation and provide the occasional bugfix.
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James came to Web development from philosophy when he discovered
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that programmers get to argue just as much while collecting much
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better pay. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas and previously worked at
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World Online; currently, he's part of the Web development team at
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Mozilla.
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He `keeps a blog`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to his car.
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.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/
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.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_
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Ian Kelly
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Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle.
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Matt Boersma
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Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.
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Jeremy Dunck
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Jeremy is the lead developer of Pegasus News, a personalized local site based
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in Dallas, Texas. An early contributor to Greasemonkey and Django, he sees
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technology as a tool for communication and access to knowledge.
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Jeremy helped kick off GeoDjango development, and is mostly responsible for
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the serious speed improvements that signals received in Django 1.0.
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Jeremy lives in Dallas, Texas, USA.
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`Simon Meers`_
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Simon discovered Django 0.96 during his Computer Science PhD research and
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has been developing with it full-time ever since. His core code
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contributions are mostly in Django's admin application. He is also helping
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to improve Django's documentation.
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Simon works as a freelance developer based in Wollongong, Australia.
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.. _simon meers: http://simonmeers.com/
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`Gabriel Hurley`_
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Gabriel has been working with Django since 2008, shortly after the 1.0
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release. Convinced by his business partner that Python and Django were the
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right direction for the company, he couldn't have been more happy with the
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decision. His contributions range across many areas in Django, but years of
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copy-editing and an eye for detail lead him to be particularly at home
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while working on Django's documentation.
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Gabriel works as a web developer in Berkeley, CA, USA.
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.. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/
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Tim Graham
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When exploring Web frameworks for an independent study project in the fall
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of 2008, Tim discovered Django and was lured to it by the documentation.
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He enjoys contributing to the docs because they're awesome.
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Tim works as a software engineer and lives in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Developers Emeritus
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Georg "Hugo" Bauer
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Georg created Django's internationalization system, managed i18n
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contributions and made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug
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fixes.
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Robert Wittams
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Robert was responsible for the *first* refactoring of Django's admin
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application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of
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excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
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