Welcome Régis Hanol to the Discourse team
The Discourse Team has always been intentionally small. We did have plans to add a team member sometime after the public launch. But we wanted just the right person, someone brave enough to take on the risk of a project as broadly ambitious as Discourse, someone willing to prove to us that they could survive the journey.
![pony-express-riders-wanted-small](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/09/pony-express-riders-wanted-small1.jpg)
We've seen some amazing community contributions to our open source Discourse project on GitHub over the last 7 months since we launched. One of our most consistently excellent contributors has been one Régis Hanol, aka ZogStriP.
![regis-hanol-picture](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/09/regis-hanol-picture.jpg)
Unfortunately, he's not an orphan, but he seems willing to undertake this dangerous journey with us on Discourse, all the way from his native France.
Please welcome Régis to the team in a full time, official capacity as of Monday, September 16th. Enjoy your $25 per week!