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=================
Django committers
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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 and maintains a well-read
`web-development blog`_.
Simon lives in Brighton, England.
`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services
around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's
work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World
Online, where Django was invented, 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`_
.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/
.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.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 rein 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.
.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/
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`_
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)
`Brian Rosner`_
Brian is currently the tech lead at Eldarion_ managing and developing
Django / Pinax_ based websites. He enjoys learning more about programming
languages and system architectures and contributing to open source
projects. Brian is the host of the `Django Dose`_ podcasts.
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.
Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.
.. _brian rosner: http://oebfare.com/
.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/
.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/
`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 e-mail and forms systems, as well as many other
improvements and code cleanups throughout the code base.
Gary is currently a developer and software engineering graduate student at
UT, where his dedication to spreading the ways of Python and Django never
ceases.
Gary lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
.. _Gary Wilson: http://gdub.wordpress.com/
.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/
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 Houston, Texas.
.. _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 Pinax_. He currently works as
a freelance web developer and designer.
Jannis lives in Berlin, Germany.
.. _Jannis Leidel: http://jezdez.com/
.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/
.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.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/
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 lives in Lawrence, Kansas, 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 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.
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.
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