# 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

11 fulltime employees, [it is an open source project built with the help of the community.](http://www.discourse.org/faq/#team)

## Remote status

All employees are remote, 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

Entirely remote, team is distributed with employees in Australia, USA, Brazil, Canada, France, Singapore and Norway.  

## How to apply

Contact team@discourse.org