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. He makes us look good. Malcolm Tredinnick , who has made significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database layer to template system and documentation. Georg "Hugo" Bauer , who added internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes. Luke Plant , who has contributed many excellent improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and unit tests. Russell Keith-Magee , who has contributed many excellent improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests. 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: adurdin@gmail.com Andreas andy@jadedplanet.net ant9000@netwise.it David Ascher Arthur Jiri Barton Ned Batchelder Shannon -jj Behrens Esdras Beleza James Bennett Ben Paul Bissex Simon Blanchard Andrew Brehaut brut.alll@gmail.com Jonathan Buchanan Antonio Cavedoni C8E Chris Chamberlin Amit Chakradeo ChaosKCW Ian Clelland crankycoder@gmail.com Matt Croydon Jure Cuhalev dackze+django@gmail.com Dirk Datzert Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) dave@thebarproject.com Jason Davies (Esaj) Alex Dedul deric@monowerks.com dne@mayonnaise.net Maximillian Dornseif Jeremy Dunck Andy Dustman Clint Ecker Enrico Ludvig Ericson Dirk Eschler Marc Fargas favo@exoweb.net Eric Floehr Jorge Gajon gandalf@owca.info Baishampayan Ghose martin.glueck@gmail.com Simon Greenhill Owen Griffiths Espen Grindhaug Brian Harring Brant Harris Hawkeye Joe Heck Joel Heenan hipertracker@gmail.com Ian Holsman Kieran Holland Robert Rock Howard Jason Huggins Tom Insam Baurzhan Ismagulov jcrasta@gmail.com Michael Josephson jpellerin@gmail.com junzhang.jn@gmail.com Antti Kaihola Ben Dean Kawamura Garth Kidd kilian Sune Kirkeby Bastian Kleineidam Cameron Knight (ckknight) Meir Kriheli Bruce Kroeze Joseph Kocherhans konrad@gwu.edu lakin.wecker@gmail.com Stuart Langridge Nicola Larosa Eugene Lazutkin Jeong-Min Lee Christopher Lenz lerouxb@gmail.com Waylan Limberg limodou mattmcc Martin Maney masonsimon+django@gmail.com Manuzhai Petar Marić Nuno Mariz mark@junklight.com Yasushi Masuda mattycakes@gmail.com Jason McBrayer mccutchen@gmail.com michael.mcewan@gmail.com mikko@sorl.net mitakummaa@gmail.com mmarshall Eric Moritz Robin Munn Robert Myers Nebojša Dorđević Fraser Nevett Sam Newman Neal Norwitz oggie rob Jay Parlar pavithran s pgross@thoughtworks.com phaedo phil@produxion.net phil.h.smith@gmail.com Gustavo Picon Luke Plant plisk Daniel Poelzleithner J. Rademaker Michael Radziej ramiro Brian Ray remco@diji.biz rhettg@gmail.com Oliver Rutherfurd Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) David Schein scott@staplefish.com serbaut@gmail.com Pete Shinners SmileyChris smurf@smurf.noris.de sopel Georgi Stanojevski Thomas Steinacher nowell strite Radek Švarz Swaroop C H Aaron Swartz Tyson Tate Tom Tobin Joe Topjian torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk Karen Tracey Makoto Tsuyuki Amit Upadhyay Geert Vanderkelen viestards.lists@gmail.com Milton Waddams wam-djangobug@wamber.net Dan Watson Chris Wesseling Rachel Willmer Gary Wilson wojtek ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com ymasuda@ethercube.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.