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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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contribute to Open Source projects like virtualenv_ and pip_.
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He has worked on Django's auth, admin and staticfiles apps as well as
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the form, core, internationalization and test systems. He currently works
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as the lead engineer at Gidsy_.
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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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.. _virtualenv: http://www.virtualenv.org/
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.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/
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.. _Gidsy: http://gidsy.com/
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James is the lead developer of Pinax_ and the CEO and founder of
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Alex is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is also an
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independent contractor. He found Django in 2007 and has been addicted ever
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since he found out you don't need to write out your forms by hand. He has
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a small obsession with compilers. He's contributed to the ORM, forms,
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admin, and other components of Django.
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Alex is a software engineer working at Rdio_. He found Django in 2007 and
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has been addicted ever since he found out you don't need to write out your
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forms by hand. He has a small obsession with compilers. He's contributed
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to the ORM, forms, admin, and other components of Django.
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Alex lives in Chicago, IL, but spends most of his time in Troy, NY.
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Alex lives in San Francisco, CA, USA.
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.. _Rdio: http://rdio.com
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Andrew is a freelance Python developer and tinkerer, and has been
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.. _Claude Paroz: http://www.2xlibre.net
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.. _l10n.gnome.org: http://l10n.gnome.org
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Anssi works as a developer at Finnish National Institute for Health and
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Welfare. He is also a computer science student at Aalto University. In his
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work he uses Django for developing internal business applications and sees
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Django as a great match for that use case.
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Anssi is interested in developing the object relational mapper (ORM) and
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all related features. He's also a fan of benckmarking and he tries keep
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Django as fast as possible.
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Florian is currently studying Physics at the `Graz University of Technology`_.
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Soon after he started using Django he joined the `Ubuntuusers webteam`_ to
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work on *Inyoka*, the software powering the whole Ubuntusers site.
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For the time beeing he lives in Graz, Austria (not Australia ;)).
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.. _Graz University of Technology: http://tugraz.at/
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.. _Ubuntuusers webteam: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/ubuntuusers/Webteam
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Jeremy was rescued from corporate IT drudgery by Free Software and, in part,
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Django. Many of Jeremy's interests center around access to information.
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Jeremy was the lead developer of Pegasus News, one of the first uses of
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Django outside World Online, and has since joined Votizen, a startup intent
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on reducing the influence of money in politics.
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He serves as DSF Secretary, organizes and helps organize sprints, cares
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about the health and equity of the Django community. He has gone an
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embarrassingly long time without a working blog.
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Jeremy lives in Mountain View, CA, USA.
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Bryan found Django 0.96 through a fellow designer who was evangelizing
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its use. It was his first foray outside of the land that was PHP-based
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templating. Although he has only ever used Django for personal projects,
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it is the very reason he considers himself a designer/developer
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hybrid and is working to further design within the Django community.
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Bryan works as a designer at GitHub by day, and masquerades as a `vlogger`_
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and `shoutcaster`_ in the after-hours. Bryan lives in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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.. _vlogger: http://youtube.com/bryanveloso/
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Preston is a recovering neuroscientist who originally discovered Django as
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part of a sweeping move to Python from a grab bag of half a dozen
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languages. He was drawn to Django's balance of practical batteries included
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philosophy, care and thought in code design, and strong open source
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community. In addition to his current job in private progressive education,
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Preston contributes some developer time to local non-profits.
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Preston lives with his family and animal menagerie in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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.. _Preston Holmes: http://www.ptone.com/
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Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.
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Jeremy is 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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Simon discovered Django 0.96 during his Computer Science PhD research and
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has been developing with it full-time ever since. His core code