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-=================
-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.