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 Scrapy was brought to life by Shane Evans while hacking a scraping framework
 prototype for Mydeco (mydeco.com). It soon became maintained, extended and
-improved by Insophia (insophia.com), with the sponsorship of By Design (the
-company behind Mydeco).
+improved by Insophia (insophia.com), with the initial sponsorship of Mydeco to
+bootstrap the project.
 
-Here is the list of the primary authors & contributors, along with their user
-name (in Scrapy trac/subversion). Emails are intentionally left out to avoid
-spam.
+Here is the list of the primary authors & contributors:
 
- * Pablo Hoffman (pablo)
- * Daniel Graña (daniel)
- * Martin Olveyra (olveyra)
- * Gabriel García (elpolilla)
- * Michael Cetrulo (samus_)
- * Artem Bogomyagkov (artem)
- * Damian Canabal (calarval)
- * Andres Moreira (andres)
- * Ismael Carnales (ismael)
- * Matías Aguirre (omab)
- * German Hoffman (german)
- * Anibal Pacheco (anibal)
+ * Pablo Hoffman
+ * Daniel Graña
+ * Martin Olveyra
+ * Gabriel García
+ * Michael Cetrulo
+ * Artem Bogomyagkov
+ * Damian Canabal
+ * Andres Moreira
+ * Ismael Carnales
+ * Matías Aguirre
+ * German Hoffmann
+ * Anibal Pacheco
  * Bruno Deferrari
  * Shane Evans
-
-And here is the list of people who have helped to put the Scrapy homepage live:
-
- * Ezequiel Rivero (ezequiel)
+ * Ezequiel Rivero
+ * Patrick Mezard
+ * Rolando Espinoza