Discourse is built by Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. What is Discourse? Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. It works as:
- a mailing list
- a discussion forum
- a long-form chat room
23 fulltime employees, it is an open source project built with the help of the community.
All employees are remote, there are not many openings. Most employees hired from the community.
Worldwide
Discourse is a JavaScript application that runs in your web browser, using the Ember.js framework.
The server side of Discourse is Ruby on Rails backed by a Postgres database and Redis cache. You can deploy our standard Discourse Docker container on any virtualized cloud server (digital ocean, amazon ec2, rackspace, azure) with 1 GB RAM.
Entirely remote, team is distributed with employees in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, and USA.
Contact team@discourse.org