people

It's been a long, long time since we wrote about growing our team  to 20 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2017/11/discourse-team-grows-to-20/] . The last few years have been good to us and as a result, we've grown steadily and have also continued giving back to open source [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.

Over the last few months we’ve added a whopping 9 members to the Discourse team! We held off on any big announcements until our new team page [https://www.discourse.org/team] was ready for primetime. Behold the first twenty! Drawings courtesy of the excellent Nick Staab [https://www.

The following is a guest post by Martin Eriksson @meriksson [https://meta.discourse.org/users/meriksson/] Update: Unfortunately due to changes to Facebook's API it is no longer possible to extract Facebook data for migration. If you're considering using Facebook Groups as a platform, check out our article on the

The Discourse team has grown slowly: * Jeff, Robin, Sam, Neil [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/the-discourse-team/] launch team (Feb 2013) * Régis [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/09/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/] joins (Sep 2013) * Arpit [https://blog.discourse.org/2015/05/welcome-arpit-jalan-to-the-discourse-team/] joins (May 2015) Look at any successful open source project,

It's been almost two years [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2013/09/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/] since someone joined the Discourse team, but we're speeding things up this year as our hosting service [http://discourse.org/buy] expands. Today we'd like to officially welcome Arpit Jalan [http://techapj.com/] from Jodhpur, India [http://en.

> Update: As of June 1st, 2015, this position is now filled. Discourse has been growing by leaps and bounds, and we're deep into the 1.3 release [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-3/22046], which has some exciting new features. Along with this growth, there have been some growing pains,

I'm pleased to announce the Discourse team now has two interns. Arpit Jalan (@techapj) Arpit hails from Jodhpur, India [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodhpur]. We met Arpit on meta.discourse [https://meta.discourse.org/users/techapj/activity], where he produced an amazing beginner's how-to guide for installing Discourse that

Discourse is a distributed team on several different continents and time zones. In fact, some of us have never even met in real life. Until the Discourse Team Building Exercise 2013, that is. (Pictured from left: Robin, Régis, Neil, Sam) The whole Discourse team flew in to San Francisco for

The Discourse Team [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/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

Discourse wouldn't be what it is without the crack team we assembled. It's kind of amazing how this plan came together, but any plan is only as good as the people working on it [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/01/cultivate-teams-not-ideas.html]. I'm Jeff Atwood. You may know me