== Case Study Candidates, with points of contact ==

See also CaseStudyQuestionnaire.

 * Disqus (Brett Hoerner, David Cramer) 
    * Powers commenting on CNN.com, MTV.com, Engadget. 250 million users per month, 17,500 requests/sec. they have around 100 servers. See slides on [http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus Scaling Disqus].
 * NASA Nebula (Jesse Andrews)
 * PBS (@tarequeh)   [http://www.slideshare.net/nowells/djangocon-09-presentation-pluggable-applications Pluggable applications] slides and [http://www.slideshare.net/shawnrider/teaching-an-old-pony-new-tricks-maintaining-and-updating-and-aging-django-site Teaching an old pony new tricks] slides.
 * http://projects.washingtonpost.com (???)
 * [http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/ Chicago Tribune] ( Christopher Groskopf / @onyxfish )
 * Everyblock (Adrian Holovaty, Joseph Kocherhans)
 * LexisNexis ( Bryan Weingarten )
 * addons.mozilla.org (Jeff Balogh) - Site serves 165 million requests per month. Was previously using CakePHP.
 * Cox Media (Chris Heisel)
 * University of Texas (Gary Wilson)
 * National Geographic (??? does anyone have a contact?)
 * http://politifact.com/ ( Matt Waite/@mattwaite , @jeremybowers )
 * Onion (Tom Tobin, Michael Greer) - interview http://djangositeoftheweek.com/av-club/
 * Mahalo (Jeff Ammons)
 * Sunlight Labs (James Turk)
 * Nazareth College (@StevenLukeSmith / fvox13)
 * Qualcomm (??? does anyone have a contact?)
 * Compete.com (@roblacy)
 * Nasuni ( Jesse Noller )
 * Fluther.com - Q&A website with a learning question matching algorithm and a proxied, federated product with some interesting middleware (Tim Trueman/@timtrueman)
 * ~~Curse.com - 15M unique visitors / month - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4UN4MkSyI&feature=related~~ Per David Cramer, who used to work there, they are no longer on Django (.Net, part of why he left).
 * [http://pitchfork.com/ Pitchfork] (@blackbrrr / @seanbrant)
 * SimpleGeo (Mike Malone, Joe Stump)
 * Urban Airship  ( Michael Richardson , Adam Lowry )
 * RapidSMS (Andy McKay, Matt Berg) saving kids lives with Django
 * BazaarVoice (Jon Loyens)

Should mine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142