Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the Lawrence Journal-World of Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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 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 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’s design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He designed the website 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.
Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.
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.
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 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.
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.
Joseph is currently a developer at EveryBlock, and previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World where he built most of the backend for the 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.
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.
Brian is currently the tech lead at Eldarion managing and developing Django / Pinax based websites. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeremy 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.
Sep 20, 2009