Structure
How the company and open source project are intertwined.
Flarum Foundation
The Flarum project and its trademarks are owned and governed by the Flarum Foundation, a Dutch not-for-profit entity that guarantees that the project remains well-maintained, free, open-source software. The Foundation is an independent entity, which attracts donations and grants to fulfil its goals.
Flarum B.V.
Siding with the Foundation, the Flarum B.V. is a commercial companion that provides commercial products and services to any Flarum community owner. This entity interacts closely with the foundation and employs Flarum (core) developers to improve Flarum and its ecosystem.
Staff
Passionate about open source and dedicated to drive the adoption of Flarum forward, we represent the project.
Daniël Klabbers
Commercial representative, Project manager
@luceos
Volunteer
Clark Winkelmann
Staff
@clarkwinkelmann
Volunteer
David Sevilla Martín
Staff
@datitisev
Volunteer
Alexander (Sasha) Skvortsov
Core developer
@askvortsov
Volunteer
Marco Colia
Languages Coordinator
@justoverclock
Volunteer
Ian Morland
Core developer
@ianm
Volunteer
Sami Mazouz
Core developer
@sycho
Volunteer
David Wheatley
Core developer
@davwheat
Volunteer
Gregor Hammerschmidt
Chairman, Community Manager, Languages Coordinator
@grexxl
Volunteer
Robert Korulczyk
Languages Coordinator
@rob006
Volunteer
Tomás Romero
Design lead
@darkle
Volunteer
Bart van Bragt
Co-founder
@bartvb
Commercial
Jaggy Gauran
Developer
@jaggy
Commercial
Meezaan-ud-Din Abdu Dhil-Jalali Wal-Ikram
Co-founder
@meezaan
Commercial
Story
Every milestone since Flarums inception in 2014.
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December 20th 2014Toby Zerner decides to open source Flarum, cancelling a running fundraiser on Kickstarter in favour of making "better forums for everyone". His experiences with EsoTalk and his vision, to this day, continue to influence the direction of the Flarum project.
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March 16th 2015Franz Liedke, creator of Fluxbb and respected Laravel artisan, joins the Flarum development team to bring to fruition the vision for Fluxbb v2. With Toby and Franz both aiming to "provide a very basic forum software that brings all the essential features a forum needs", beta's continue to roll out.
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August 15th 2019Although Toby has since departed the project, the Flarum team has grown larger, more professional and increasingly active each passing year. In 2019, the Flarum Foundation was brought into existence to safeguard the future of Flarum as a free and open-source product.
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May 25th 2021Flarum reaches its first stable release after sixteen beta's over a period of seven years.
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June 1st 2024Several projects from the Flarum ecosystem, like Extiverse, are brought into a unified platform on Flarum.org to better showcase Flarum, promote its extensibility and offer services required by growing communities.
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May 4th, SaturdayBuilding extensible, truly open source community software and being a reliable partner for Flarum community design, development and scalable, managed Flarum hosting to 3 communities.
Former staff
People we honor for their past efforts into the Flarum project. The cornerstone of our project is the vast amounts of time that people have devoted to building software that is free for everyone. We share our gratitude by listing these former developers and staff members on the same page as ourselves, shoulder-to-shoulder, arm-in-arm. We are going strong only because of the example these people have set.
