TurboGears is an open source project which was founded by Kevin Dangoor in 2005. Kevin brought together a number of tools which people were using for web development into one usable package, in a few hundred lines of code. The result was a framework which allowed for swappable components, allowing a developer the flexibility to choose the best-of-breed technology to solve their web application challenges. As the popularity of TurboGears grew, more developers began to participate. The development of TurboGears became a world-wide effort. Though our developer base has changed throughout the project's life, our ultimate goal has remained: To provide web developers a toolkit which is easy to get started with, supports agile development and provides an exceedingly high level of flexibility, unmatched in the world of web frameworks. Currently our development staff consists of about a dozen programmers (though this figure might be a little bit misleading since there are dozens more developers working on core dependencies, from Genshi and SQLAlchemy to ToscaWidgets, and DBSprockets) whose efforts are divided between supporting a stable base and developing the next generation of our software. This has resulted in merging our efforts with those of another popular Python web framework (Pylons) with the goal to build an even more component-oriented framework and to perpetuate our active role in the Python web frameworks domain. TurboGears, strives to bring together the open source community to develop cutting-edge technology which is enjoyable to use.