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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
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 for 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 designed the
Web site you're looking at right now, as well as 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: http://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: http://heroku.com/
.. _Rdio: http://rdio.com
Current developers
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Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.
.. _django-bdfls:
BDFLs
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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
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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 passed away on March 17, 2013.*
`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 â Perth,
Australia.
.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/
`James Bennett`_
James is Django's release manager, 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`_
`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 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://thegarywilson.com/
.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/
Matt Boersma
Matt is responsible for Django's Oracle support.
Ian Kelly
Ian is also responsible for Django's support for Oracle.
Joseph Kocherhans
Joseph was the director of lead development at EveryBlock and previously
developed at the Lawrence Journal-World. He is treasurer of the `Django
Software Foundation`_. 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.
.. _django software foundation: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/
.. _charango: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango
`Brian Rosner`_
Brian is the Chief Architect at Eldarion_ managing and developing
Django / Pinax_ based Web sites. He enjoys learning more about programming
languages and system architectures and contributing to open source
projects.
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://brosner.com/
.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/
.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/
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: http://www.mozilla.org/
`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/
`Alex Gaynor`_
Alex is a software engineer working at Rackspace_. He found Django in 2007 and
has been addicted ever since he found out you don't need to write out your
forms by hand. He has a small obsession with compilers. He's contributed
to the ORM, forms, admin, and other components of Django.
Alex lives in San Francisco, CA, USA.
.. _Alex Gaynor: http://alexgaynor.net
.. _Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com
`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/
`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 London, UK.
.. _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.
`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 web developer in Berkeley, CA, USA.
.. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/
`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: http://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.
Paul works in Berkeley, California as a `web developer`_ and `security
consultant`_.
.. _Paul McMillan: http://subversivecode.com
.. _web developer: http://zerocoordinate.com
.. _security consultant: http://subversivecode.com/about
`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 works in a `management consulting company`_ in Paris, France.
.. _Aymeric Augustin: https://myks.org/
.. _management consulting company: http://www.polyconseil.fr/
`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 benckmarking 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 Ubuntusers site.
For the time beeing 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: http://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. In addition to his current job in private progressive education,
Preston contributes some developer time to local non-profits.
Preston lives with his family and animal menagerie in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
.. _Preston Holmes: http://www.ptone.com/
`Simon Charette`_
Simon is a mathematic 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/
`Daniel Lindsley`_
Pythonista since 2003, Djangonaut since 2006. Daniel started with Django
just after the v0.90 release (back when ``Manipulators`` looked good) & fell
in love. Since then, he wrote third-party apps like Haystack & Tastypie
& has run the annual Django Dash since 2007. One of the testing faithful,
Daniel's contributions include rewriting the ``Forms`` test suite & the
addition of ``request.is_ajax``. Daniel currently works as a Python
developer at `Amazon Web Services`_ on the ``boto`` library.
Daniel lives in Seattle, WA, USA.
.. _`Daniel Lindsley`: http://toastdriven.com/
.. _`Amazon Web Services`: https://aws.amazon.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/
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: http://www.m2bpo.fr
Developers Emeritus
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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.
