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.. _internals-committers:
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Django committers
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The original team
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Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the `Lawrence
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Journal-World`_ of Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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`Adrian Holovaty`_
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Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He's known in
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journalism circles as one of the pioneers of "journalism via computer
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programming", and in technical circles as "the guy who invented Django."
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He was lead developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time
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Django was developed and implemented on World Online's sites. He's now the
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leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block".
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Adrian lives in Chicago, USA.
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`Simon Willison`_
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Simon is a well-respected web developer from England. He had a one-year
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internship at World Online, during which time he and Adrian developed Django
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from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's passionate
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about best practices in web development and maintains a well-read
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`web-development blog`_.
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Simon lives in Brighton, England.
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`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_
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Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services
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around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's
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work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World
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Online, where Django was invented, where he was the lead developer of
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Ellington, a commercial web publishing platform for media companies.
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Jacob lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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`Wilson Miner`_
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Wilson's design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He designed the
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website you're looking at right now, as well as Django's acclaimed admin
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interface. Wilson is the designer for EveryBlock_.
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Wilson lives in San Francisco, USA.
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.. _lawrence journal-world: http://ljworld.com/
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.. _adrian holovaty: http://holovaty.com/
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.. _everyblock: http://everyblock.com/
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.. _simon willison: http://simonwillison.net/
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.. _web-development blog: `simon willison`_
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.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/
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.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.com/
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.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/
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Current developers
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Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe.
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BDFLs
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Adrian and Jacob are the Co-`Benevolent Dictators for Life`_ of Django. When
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"rough consensus and working code" fails, they're the ones who make the tough
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decisions.
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.. _Benevolent Dictators for Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
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Core developers
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These are the folks who have a long history of contributions, a solid track
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record of being helpful on the mailing lists, and a proven desire to dedicate
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serious time to Django. In return, they've been granted the coveted commit bit,
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and have free rein to hack on all parts of Django.
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`Malcolm Tredinnick`_
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Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician, somehow ended up a software
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developer. He's contributed to many Open Source projects, has served on the
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board of the GNOME foundation, and will kick your ass at chess.
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When he's not busy being an International Man of Mystery, Malcolm lives in
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Sydney, Australia.
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.. _malcolm tredinnick: http://www.pointy-stick.com/
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`Russell Keith-Magee`_
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Russell studied physics as an undergraduate, and studied neural networks for
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his PhD. His first job was with a startup in the defense industry developing
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simulation frameworks. Over time, mostly through work with Django, he's
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become more involved in web development.
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Russell has helped with several major aspects of Django, including a
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couple major internal refactorings, creation of the test system, and more.
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Russell lives in the most isolated capital city in the world — Perth,
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Australia.
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.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/
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Joseph Kocherhans
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Joseph is currently a developer at EveryBlock_, and previously worked for
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the Lawrence Journal-World where he built most of the backend for the their
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Marketplace site. He often disappears for several days into the woods,
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attempts to teach himself computational linguistics, and annoys his
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neighbors with his Charango_ playing.
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Joseph's first contribution to Django was a series of improvements to the
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authorization system leading up to support for pluggable authorization.
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Since then, he's worked on the new forms system, its use in the admin, and
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many other smaller improvements.
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Joseph lives in Chicago, USA.
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.. _charango: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango
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`Luke Plant`_
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At University Luke studied physics and Materials Science and also
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met `Michael Meeks`_ who introduced him to Linux and Open Source,
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re-igniting an interest in programming. Since then he has
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contributed to a number of Open Source projects and worked
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professionally as a developer.
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Luke has contributed many excellent improvements to Django,
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including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
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many unit tests.
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Luke currently works for a church in Bradford, UK, and part-time
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as a freelance developer.
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.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/
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.. _michael meeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meeks_(software)
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`Brian Rosner`_
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Brian is currently the tech lead at Eldarion_ managing and developing
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Django / Pinax_ based websites. He enjoys learning more about programming
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languages and system architectures and contributing to open source
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projects. Brian is the host of the `Django Dose`_ podcasts.
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Brian helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished
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in time for Django 1.0; he's now a full committer, continuing to improve on
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the admin and forms system.
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Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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.. _brian rosner: http://oebfare.com/
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.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/
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.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/
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`Gary Wilson`_
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Gary starting contributing patches to Django in 2006 while developing Web
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applications for `The University of Texas`_ (UT). Since, he has made
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contributions to the e-mail and forms systems, as well as many other
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improvements and code cleanups throughout the code base.
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Gary is currently a developer and software engineering graduate student at
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UT, where his dedication to spreading the ways of Python and Django never
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ceases.
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Gary lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
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.. _Gary Wilson: http://gdub.wordpress.com/
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.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/
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Justin Bronn
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Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and attorney specializing
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in legal topics related to intellectual property and spatial law.
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In 2007, Justin began developing ``django.contrib.gis`` in a branch,
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a.k.a. GeoDjango_, which was merged in time for Django 1.0. While
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implementing GeoDjango, Justin obtained a deep knowledge of Django's
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internals including the ORM, the admin, and Oracle support.
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Justin lives in Houston, Texas.
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.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/
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Karen Tracey
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Karen has a background in distributed operating systems (graduate school),
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communications software (industry) and crossword puzzle construction
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(freelance). The last of these brought her to Django, in late 2006, when
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she set out to put a web front-end on her crossword puzzle database.
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That done, she stuck around in the community answering questions, debugging
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problems, etc. -- because coding puzzles are as much fun as word puzzles.
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Karen lives in Apex, NC, USA.
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`Jannis Leidel`_
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Jannis graduated in media design from `Bauhaus-University Weimar`_,
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is the author of a number of pluggable Django apps and likes to
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contribute to Open Source projects like Pinax_. He currently works as
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a freelance web developer and designer.
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Jannis lives in Berlin, Germany.
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.. _Jannis Leidel: http://jezdez.com/
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.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/
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.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/
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`James Tauber`_
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James is the lead developer of Pinax_ and the CEO and founder of
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Eldarion_. He has been doing open source software since 1993, Python
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since 1998 and Django since 2006. He serves on the board of the Python
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Software Foundation and is currently on a leave of absence from a PhD in
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linguistics.
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James currently lives in Boston, MA, USA but originally hails from
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Perth, Western Australia where he attended the same high school as
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Russell Keith-Magee.
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.. _James Tauber: http://jtauber.com/
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Specialists
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`James Bennett`_
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James is Django's release manager; he also contributes to the documentation.
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James came to web development from philosophy when he discovered
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that programmers get to argue just as much while collecting much
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better pay. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he works for the
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Journal-World developing Ellington. He `keeps a blog`_, has
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written a `book on Django`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to
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his car.
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.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/
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.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_
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.. _book on Django: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590599969/?tag=djangoproject-20
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Ian Kelly
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Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle.
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Matt Boersma
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Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.
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Jeremy Dunck
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Jeremy the lead developer of Pegasus News, a personalized local site based
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in Dallas, Texas. An early contributor to Greasemonkey and Django, he sees
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technology as a tool for communication and access to knowledge.
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Jeremy helped kick off GeoDjango development, and is mostly responsible for
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the serious speed improvements that signals received in Django 1.0.
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Jeremy lives in Dallas, Texas, USA.
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Developers Emeritus
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Georg "Hugo" Bauer
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Georg created Django's internationalization system, managed i18n
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contributions and made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug
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fixes.
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Robert Wittams
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Robert was responsible for the *first* refactoring of Django's admin
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application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of
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excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
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