diff --git a/docs/faq/general.txt b/docs/faq/general.txt index f7043c5f3c..c2e78a1a43 100644 --- a/docs/faq/general.txt +++ b/docs/faq/general.txt @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Who's behind this? Django was originally developed at World Online, the Web department of a newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Django's now run by an international -:doc:`team of volunteers `. +`team of volunteers `_. Which sites use Django? ======================= diff --git a/docs/index.txt b/docs/index.txt index fa6ff8474a..b33819aebc 100644 --- a/docs/index.txt +++ b/docs/index.txt @@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ you can contribute: :doc:`How to get involved ` | :doc:`The release process ` | :doc:`Team organization ` | - :doc:`Meet the team ` | :doc:`The Django source code repository ` | :doc:`Security policies ` | :doc:`Mailing lists ` diff --git a/docs/internals/index.txt b/docs/internals/index.txt index 95183e4db0..b76696abb5 100644 --- a/docs/internals/index.txt +++ b/docs/internals/index.txt @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ you'd like to help improve Django or learn about how Django is managed. contributing/index mailing-lists organization - team security release-process deprecation diff --git a/docs/internals/organization.txt b/docs/internals/organization.txt index 11000b2ff1..18e7147c49 100644 --- a/docs/internals/organization.txt +++ b/docs/internals/organization.txt @@ -74,9 +74,8 @@ need them through the same process. Membership ---------- -The core team finds its origins with the :ref:`four people -` who created Django. It has grown to :ref:`a few dozen -people ` by co-opting volunteers who demonstrate: +`Django team members `_ +demonstrate: - a good grasp of the philosophy of the Django Project - a solid track record of being constructive and helpful diff --git a/docs/internals/team.txt b/docs/internals/team.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e5f5c96d74..0000000000 --- a/docs/internals/team.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,738 +0,0 @@ -=========== -Django team -=========== - -.. _original-team-list: - -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 was the - leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block." He now - develops 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 created the design - that was used for nearly the first ten years on the Django Project website, - as well as the current design for 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: https://everyblock.com/ -.. _soundslice: https://www.soundslice.com/ -.. _simon willison: http://simonwillison.net/ -.. _web-development blog: `simon willison`_ -.. _jacob kaplan-moss: https://jacobian.org/ -.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.com/ -.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/ -.. _heroku: https://heroku.com/ -.. _Rdio: http://rdio.com - -.. _core-team-list: - -The current team -================ - -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 invited to join the :ref:`core -team `. - -`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: https://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 — Perth, - Australia. - - .. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/ - -`James Bennett`_ - James has been one of Django's release managers, 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 San Mateo, California and previously - worked at World Online and Mozilla; currently, he's part of the - Web engineering team at `Clover`_. - - He `keeps a blog`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to his car. - - .. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/ - .. _Clover: https://www.cloverhealth.com/ - .. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_ - -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, TX. - - .. _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: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/ - .. _pip: https://pip.pypa.io/ - .. _Mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/ - -`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 San Francisco, CA, USA. - - .. _Andrew Godwin: https://www.aeracode.org/ - -`Carl Meyer`_ - Carl has been a Django user since 2007 (long enough to remember - queryset-refactor, but not magic-removal), and builds web apps at 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. - -`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: https://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 - ` 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. - -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. - -`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. - - .. _Aymeric Augustin: https://myks.org/ - -`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 Senior Backend Developer at `Holvi`, a Finnish financial - technology company building digital banking solutions for freelancers and - small businesses. What makes `Holvi` an exciting challenge for Anssi is - using technology to create something real people care for and actually want - to use. In his daily work, he's building a full stack bank with Django. - - Anssi works mostly on ORM related issues and enjoys making the ORM solve - complex query problems. - -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 Ubuntuusers site. - - For the time being he lives in Graz, Austria (not Australia ;)). - - .. _Graz University of Technology: http://tugraz.at/ - .. _Ubuntuusers webteam: https://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: https://youtube.com/bryanveloso/ - .. _shoutcaster: http://twitch.tv/vlogalonstar/ - -`Simon Charette`_ - Simon is a mathematics 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: https://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/ - -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: https://ccbv.co.uk/ - -Shai Berger - Shai started working with Python back in 1998, and with Django just - before 1.0. He is a Free Software enthusiast, but life happens, and - he was driven by consulting gigs to contribute to the Oracle and - SQL Server backends of South, and then the Oracle backend of Django - itself. Finally, he joined core to help maintain the Oracle backend. - - Shai works for `Platonix`_, a small consulting company he started - with a few friends in 1996, and lives near Tel Aviv, Israel. - - .. _Platonix: http://tech.platonix.com - -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: https://www.m2bpo.fr - -Daniele Procida - Daniele unexpectedly became a Django developer on 29th April 2009. Since - then he has relied daily on Django's documentation, which has been a - constant companion to him. More recently he has been able to contribute - back to the project by helping improve the documentation itself. - - He is the author of `Arkestra`_ and `Don't be afraid to commit`_. He lives - in Cardiff, Wales, and works for `Divio`_. - - .. _Divio: https://divio.ch/ - .. _Arkestra: http://arkestra-project.org/ - .. _Don\'t be afraid to commit: https://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.io - -`Erik Romijn`_ - Erik started using Django in the days of 1.2. His largest contribution to Django was - ``GenericIPAddressField``, and he has worked on all sorts of patches since. - While developing with Django, he always keeps a little list of even the slightest - Django frustrations, to tackle them at a later time and prevent other developers - from having to deal with the same issues. - - Erik is an independent app maker, mostly developing web and mobile apps, as - `Solid Links`_. He also enjoys helping ordinary developers to build safer web apps, - for which Django is already a great start, and developed `Erik's Pony Checkup`_ with - that goal in mind. Erik lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - - .. _Erik Romijn: http://erik.io/ - .. _Solid Links: https://solidlinks.nl/ - .. _Erik's Pony Checkup: https://ponycheckup.com/ - -`Loïc Bistuer`_ - Loïc studied telecommunications engineering and works as an independent - software developer and consultant. - - He discovered Django in 2008 shortly before the 1.0 release and has been - hooked ever since. He contributes mostly to Django's ORM and Form - components. His main contributions include advanced query prefetching, - streamlining QuerySet and Manager to improve query reusability, and a - significant refactor of forms error handling. - - Loïc is originally from the South of France and currently lives in - Bangkok, Thailand. - - .. _Loïc Bistuer: https://github.com/loic - -`Michael Manfre`_ - Michael started running Django on Windows against a Microsoft SQL Server - (MSSQL) database in 2008. He quickly became the maintainer of the - ``django-mssql`` database backend. Much of his involvement with Django - relates to the ORM, the private 3rd party database API, and using Django on - Windows. - - Michael lives in Cary, NC, USA. - - .. _Michael Manfre: http://manfre.net - -`Collin Anderson`_ - Collin found Django in November 2006. He was in awe of the admin and ORM - and was amazed that the documentation was teaching him best web practices - like redirecting after a successful POST request. Why had he never learned - this before? No one knows to this day. - - He enjoys helping people on the |django-users| mailing list and making - Django simple and easy for newcomers. - - Collin lives in South Bend, IN, USA where he uses Django to `increase - unity`_. - - .. _Collin Anderson: https://github.com/collinanderson - .. _increase unity: http://onetencommunications.com/about/ - -`Tom Christie`_ - Tom has background in speech recognition, networking, and web development. - He has a particular interest in Web API design and is the original author - of `Django REST framework`_. - - Tom lives in the seaside city of Brighton, UK. - - .. _Tom Christie: https://twitter.com/_tomchristie - .. _Django REST framework: http://django-rest-framework.org - -`Curtis Maloney`_ - Curtis is a self-taught programmer from Melbourne, Australia, who eschews - specialization. Upon finding Django when it was first open sourced, he - realized it was possible to enjoy web development. - - He spends a lot of time helping people on the `#django` IRC channel, and - has authored and released a number of `smaller Django apps`_. - - .. _Curtis Maloney: http://musings.tinbrain.net/blog/ - .. _smaller Django apps: https://github.com/funkybob/ - -`Markus Holtermann`_ - Markus is a senior backend developer at `LaterPay`_ in Munich. He studied - Computer Science at the `Technical University of Berlin`_. He started - working with Django in 2010 when he joined the `ubuntuusers.de`_ web team - to work on *Inyoka*. Markus made his first contribution to the Django - project during DjangoCon Europe 2013 in Warsaw. He was the web team leader - for the `EuroPython 2014 website`_ and started regular contributions to - Django after that. - - Markus lives in Berlin, Germany. - - .. _Markus Holtermann: https://github.com/MarkusH - .. _LaterPay: https://www.laterpay.net/ - .. _Technical University of Berlin: http://www.tu-berlin.de/ - .. _ubuntuusers.de: https://ubuntuusers.de/ - .. _EuroPython 2014 website: https://ep2014.europython.eu/ - -`Josh Smeaton`_ - Josh was given the opportunity to work on a new Django app around version - 1.1 after working with a homegrown PHP reporting framework. The simplicity - of the ORM and the power of the Admin were extremely liberating. - - Still being involved with custom reporting applications, he decided to try - his hand at improving the ORM support for analytics. His contributions - focus on giving more power to users of the ORM. - - Josh lives in Melbourne, Australia where he heads up development for a SaaS - telecommunications company. - - .. _Josh Smeaton: https://github.com/jarshwah - -`Preston Timmons`_ - Preston is a software developer with a background in mathematics. He enjoys - Django because it enables consistent, simple, and tested systems to be - built that even new programmers can quickly dive into. Preston lives in - Dallas, TX. - - .. _Preston Timmons: https://github.com/prestontimmons - -`Tomek Paczkowski`_ - Tomek started using Django in 2007 as a tool for quickly dealing with - university projects. Since then, he worked with various technologies - like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Android but always returned to - Python and Django. - - Tomek loves the Django community. He organized multiple Django - sprints, co-organized `DjangoCon Europe 2013`_ and has mentored at many - `Django Girls`_ events. - - Originally from Poland, Tomek currently lives in London, where he - works at Squirrel_. - - .. _Tomek Paczkowski: https://hauru.eu - .. _DjangoCon Europe 2013: http://love.djangocircus.com - .. _Django Girls: https://djangogirls.org - .. _Squirrel: https://squirrel.me - -`Ola Sitarska`_ - Ola started working with Django in 2009, when she discovered the power of - the Django admin and quickly fell in love with the beauty of Python. - - She co-organized `DjangoCon Europe 2013`_ in Warsaw and co-authored the - `Django Girls Tutorial`_, the most beginner friendly Django tutorial out - there. Together with Ola Sendecka, she started `Django Girls`_, a community - and series of Django workshops for women who've never programmed before. - - In 2015, she became a Django Software Foundation board member. Ola was also - a part of the team responsible for shipping the djangoproject.com redesign. - - Originally from Poland, Ola currently lives in London, where she - works with friends at `Potato`_. - - .. _Ola Sitarska: http://ola.sitarska.com/ - .. _DjangoCon Europe 2013: http://love.djangocircus.com - .. _Django Girls Tutorial: http://tutorial.djangogirls.org - .. _Django Girls: https://djangogirls.org - .. _Potato: https://p.ota.to - -`Ola Sendecka`_ - Ola started her adventure with Django when writing a university project in - 2009. After that she attended her first DjangoCon Europe which - defined her future life as a Django professional. - - Since then she has been an active community member. Ola co-organized a number of - Django sprints and conferences including: - `DjangoCon Europe 2013`_, `Django Under the Hood 2015`_ and - `DjangoCon Europe 2016`_. Together with Ola Sitarska she founded - `Django Girls`_, co-authored the `Django Girls Tutorial`_ and - is a member of the Django Girls Foundation. She is also an author of - the `Coding is for Girls`_ YouTube series teaching programming and Django - to beginners. - - Originally from Poland, Ola currently lives in London, where she works for `Potato`_. - - .. _Ola Sendecka: https://twitter.com/asendecka - .. _DjangoCon Europe 2013: http://love.djangocircus.com - .. _Django Under the Hood 2015: http://www.djangounderthehood.com/ - .. _DjangoCon Europe 2016: http://2016.djangocon.eu - .. _Django Girls: https://djangogirls.org - .. _Django Girls Tutorial: http://tutorial.djangogirls.org - .. _Coding is for Girls: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0hNd2uW8jTR5K3KBzRuG2A - .. _Potato: https://p.ota.to - -`Adam Johnson`_ - Adam started working with Django in 2012 on his first non-PHP website and - has never looked back. He has since been pushing for it to be more friendly - with MySQL / MariaDB, and now helps organize the London Django Meetup. - - Adam hails from Cheltenham, UK and currently resides in London where he - works for `Time Out`_. - - .. _Adam Johnson: https://adamj.eu/ - .. _Time Out: https://www.timeout.com/ - -`Lucie Daeye`_ - Lucie studied Geography and Korean Studies at university. She discovered - Django during the very first `Django Girls`_ in 2014: she coded her first - first web app for her PhD research, loved it, and decided to switch career - to programming. - - Since then, she's organized two `Django Girls workshops in Paris`_ and - coached at numerous events. She started working for Django Girls in - September 2015 and is now their `Awesomeness Ambassador`_. - - .. _Lucie Daeye: https://justhiding.org/ - .. _Django Girls workshops in Paris: https://djangogirls.org/paris/ - .. _Awesomeness Ambassador: https://github.com/DjangoGirls/wiki/blob/master/general/ambassador.md - -Past team members -================= - -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. - -`Alex Gaynor`_ - Alex was involved in many parts of Django, he contributed to the ORM, - forms, admin, amongst others; he is most known for his work on - multiple-database support in Django. - - Alex lives in Washington, DC, USA. - - .. _Alex Gaynor: https://alexgaynor.net - -`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/ - -`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 developer in the SF Bay Area, CA, USA. - - .. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/ - -Malcolm Tredinnick - Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician and somehow ended up a - software developer. He contributed to many Open Source projects, served on - the board of the GNOME foundation, and was a great chess player. - - Malcolm was deeply involved in many part of Django - most notably, the - ORM, but many other internals bear his fingerprints. Django’s support for - unicode and autoescaping in templates can both be almost entirely - attributed to Malcolm. - - He was an International Man of Mystery and lived in Sydney, Australia. - - *Malcolm passed away on March 17, 2013.* - -`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. Currently working in the rent-your-infra space (aka Cloud), he - is always looking for opportunities to volunteer for community oriented - education projects, such as for kids and scientists (e.g. Software - Carpentry). - - Preston lives with his family and animal menagerie in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. - - .. _Preston Holmes: http://www.ptone.com/ - -`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 is currently hacking on all things data and visualization at Heroku_. - - .. _Idan Gazit: http://gazit.me - .. _photographer: https://flickr.com/photos/idangazit - -Matt Boersma - Matt helped with Django's Oracle support. - -Ian Kelly - Ian also helped with Oracle support. - -Joseph Kocherhans - Joseph was the director of lead development at EveryBlock and previously - developed at the Lawrence Journal-World. 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango - -`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 lives in Austin, Texas, USA. - - .. _Gary Wilson: http://thegarywilson.com/ - .. _The University of Texas: https://www.utexas.edu/ - -`Brian Rosner`_ - Brian enjoys learning more about programming languages and system - architectures and contributing to open source projects. - - He helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished - in time for Django 1.0. - - Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA. - - .. _brian rosner: http://brosner.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/ - .. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/ - .. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/