# Discourse ## Company blurb 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 ## Company size Less than 10 employees but [it is an open source project built with the help of the community.](https://www.discourse.org/faq/#team) ## Remote status Employees can be remote, but there are not many openings. ## Region Worldwide ## Company technologies 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. ## Office Locations Unknown. ## How to apply Unknown.