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: Andreas David Ascher James Bennett Paul Bissex Simon Blanchard Andrew Brehaut Antonio Cavedoni Amit Chakradeo Matt Croydon Jeremy Dunck Clint Ecker Baishampayan Ghose Espen Grindhaug Brant Harris Ian Holsman Kieran Holland Robert Rock Howard Jason Huggins Michael Josephson Garth Kidd Sune Kirkeby lakin.wecker@gmail.com Stuart Langridge Eugene Lazutkin Martin Maney Maniac Manuzhai Petar Marić mark@junklight.com mattycakes@gmail.com Jason McBrayer michael.mcewan@gmail.com mmarshall Eric Moritz Robin Munn nesh Sam Newman Luke Plant phaedo plisk David Schein sopel Radek Švarz Aaron Swartz Tom Tobin Joe Topjian Amit Upadhyay Milton Waddams Rachel Willmer wojtek ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com 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.