Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been): Adrian Holovaty , who originally created Django with Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob. Simon Willison , who originally created Django with Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently helps from the sidelines. Jacob Kaplan-Moss , who joined the team shortly before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian. Wilson Miner , who designed Django's admin interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has made many other contributions. Georg "Hugo" Bauer , who added internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes. Robert Wittams , who majorly refactored the Django admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes. And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS -- people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better: akaihola Andreas David Ascher James Bennett Paul Bissex Simon Blanchard Andrew Brehaut andy@jadedplanet.net Antonio Cavedoni C8E Amit Chakradeo Matt Croydon Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) Jason Davies (Esaj) deric@monowerks.com Jeremy Dunck Clint Ecker Baishampayan Ghose Espen Grindhaug Gustavo Picon Brant Harris hipertracker@gmail.com Ian Holsman Kieran Holland Robert Rock Howard Jason Huggins Michael Josephson Russell Keith-Magee Garth Kidd Sune Kirkeby lakin.wecker@gmail.com Stuart Langridge Eugene Lazutkin limodou Martin Maney Maniac Manuzhai Petar Marić mark@junklight.com mattycakes@gmail.com Jason McBrayer michael.mcewan@gmail.com mmarshall Eric Moritz Robin Munn Nebojša Dorđević Sam Newman pgross@thoughtworks.com phaedo Luke Plant plisk Brian Ray Oliver Rutherfurd David Schein sopel Radek Švarz Swaroop C H Aaron Swartz Tom Tobin Joe Topjian Amit Upadhyay Milton Waddams Rachel Willmer wojtek ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com Cheng Zhang A big THANK YOU goes to: Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django. Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for his sage sysadmin advice. Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation. Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org. Guido van Rossum for creating Python.