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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 has 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 software architect at `Whiskey Media`_, one of those newfangled |
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Web 1.0 companies you've read so much about. A good deal of Jacob's work |
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time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previous worked for the Lawrence |
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Journal-World, where he was the lead developer of Ellington, a commercial |
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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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website 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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.. _whiskey media: http://whiskeymedia.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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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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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 the 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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Like has contributed many excellent improvements, including database-level |
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improvements, the CSRF middleware and many unit tests. |
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.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/ |
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`Brian Rosner`_ |
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Brian is currently a web developer working on an e-commerce system in |
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Django. He spends his free time contributing to Django and enjoys to learn |
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more about programming languages and system architectures. Brian is the |
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co-host of the weekly podcast, `This Week in Django`_. |
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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, USA. |
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.. _brian rosner: http://oebfare.com/ |
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.. _this week in django: http://thisweekindjango.com/ |
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Gary Wilson |
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In early 2007, Gary started contributing a lot of cleanup fixes and fixing |
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broken windows. He's continued to do that necessary tidying up work |
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throughout the code base since then. |
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Specialists |
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`James Bennett`_ |
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James is Django's release manager; he also contributes to the documentation. |
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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, where he works for the |
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Journal-World developing Ellington. He `keeps a blog`_, has |
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written a `book on Django`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to |
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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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.. _book on Django: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590599969/?tag=djangoproject-20 |
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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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Justin Bronn |
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Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and third-year law student at the |
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University of Houston who enjoys studying legal topics related to |
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intellectual property and spatial law. |
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Justin is the primary developer of ``django.contrib.gis``, a.k.a. |
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GeoDjango_. |
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.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/ |
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Jeremy Dunck |
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Jeremy 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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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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