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diff --git a/parts/django/docs/internals/committers.txt b/parts/django/docs/internals/committers.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ecda1d5..0000000 --- a/parts/django/docs/internals/committers.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,344 +0,0 @@ -================= -Django committers -================= - -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 - Web site 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 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 Web sites. 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/ - -`Alex Gaynor`_ - Alex is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is also an - independent contractor. 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 Chicago, IL, but spends most of his time in Troy, NY. - -.. _Alex Gaynor: http://alexgaynor.net - -`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_ and Eldarion_. He became a Django contributor by - accident, because fixing bugs is more interesting than working around - them. - - Carl lives in Elkhart, IN, USA. - -.. _Carl Meyer: http://www.oddbird.net/about/#hcard-carl -.. _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. - -`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/ - -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 is 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. - -`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. He is also helping - to improve Django's documentation. - - Simon works as a freelance developer based in Wollongong, Australia. - -.. _simon meers: http://simonmeers.com/ - -`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/ - -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. - -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. |