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

See also CaseStudyQuestionnaire.

Scaling

 * 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].
 * addons.mozilla.org (Jeff Balogh) - Site serves 165 million requests per month. Was previously using CakePHP.
    * JDunck - Contacted to do study Sept 13, 2010.
 * BazaarVoice (Jon Loyens)

Non-profit

 * 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.
 * National Geographic (Rich Leland @richleland)
 * Discovery (Josh Ourisman)
 * RapidSMS (Andy McKay, Matt Berg) saving kids lives with Django

Government

 * NASA Nebula (Jesse Andrews)
 * Library of Congress (@acdha, @edsu, @dchud)

Education

 * University of Texas (Gary Wilson)
 * Nazareth College (@StevenLukeSmith / fvox13)

Media, news 

 * Cox Media (Chris Heisel)
 * Onion (Tom Tobin, Michael Greer) - interview http://djangositeoftheweek.com/av-club/
 * Everyblock (Adrian Holovaty, Joseph Kocherhans)
 * http://projects.washingtonpost.com (Ryan O'Neil, Jackie Kazil)
 * USA Today (@kjam)
 * [http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/ Chicago Tribune] ( Christopher Groskopf / @onyxfish )
 * [http://www.zimbio.com Zimbio] (Bruce Martin, Danny Khatib)
 * GlobalCom ( @gabrielfalcao )

Big business

 * LexisNexis ( Bryan Weingarten )
 * Qualcomm (??? does anyone have a contact?)
 * HP (Ned Batchelder)
 * Cisco ([http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=29841145&gid=50788&trk=EML_anet_qa_ttle-0Rt79xs2RVr6JBpnsJt7dBpSBA Brad MacDonald])

Games, Comics

 * Mochimedia (Ericflo)
 * Penny Arcade (???)
 * [http://www.car-battle.com Car Battle] (@yezooz)

E-Commerce

 * Cuker Interactive (http://cukerinteractive.com, our product is Web Cube CMS http://webcubecms.com)
 * Baby and Kids Company (http://babyandkidscompany.com/)

Sports

 * [http://www.pickscore.net Pick Score] (@yezooz)

Others, not sure

 * http://politifact.com/ ( Matt Waite/@mattwaite , @jeremybowers )
 * Mahalo (Jeff Ammons, Jacob Burch) 
   * Working on case study as of 10 Sept 2010.
   * Draft shared w/ JDunck, DGreenfeld, AMcKay as of 16 Sept; feedback due by Sept 24.

 * Sunlight Labs (James Turk)
 * Compete.com (@roblacy)
 * Nasuni ( Jesse Noller )
  * http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/thanks-to-django/
  * http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/thanks-to-the-supporting-cast/
 * Fluther.com - Q&A website with a learning question matching algorithm and a proxied, federated product with some interesting middleware (Tim Trueman/@timtrueman)
 * [http://pitchfork.com/ Pitchfork] (@blackbrrr / @seanbrant)
 * SimpleGeo (Mike Malone, Joe Stump)
 * Urban Airship  ( Michael Richardson , Adam Lowry )
 * http://www.mediweightloss.com (Eric Brown, eric@mediweightloss.com, interview/case study inquiries welcome)
 * [http://mobilevikings.com Mobile Vikings], a Belgian MVNO (Gert Van Gool, @gvangool, gert@mobilevikings.com)

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

Consultancies as leads to testimonials from their clients? (Lincoln Loop, Caktus, etc.)
 * Lincoln Loop - We Like Small ( Paul Solomon )
    * JDunck - contacted 20 Sept 2010.
 * Interaction Consortium - NSW AU Art Gallery (Greg Turner)