Discourse chosen as a recipient of Mozilla Open Source Support

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From Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made:

Discourse: $25,000. Discourse is online discussion forum software, used by several Mozilla communities. Their award will be used to make email a first-class interaction mechanism for Discourse, allowing Discourse instances to replace and improve upon mailing lists.

Congratulations all, it’s well deserved.

Love,

The Mozilla Community Ops team

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Thanks! Official announcement here:

Discourse selected for Mozilla Open Source Support program

In late October Mozilla announced something called the Mozilla Open Source Support Program. Their selection criteria seemed favourable towards Discourse, so we decided to take a shot at it. I am reminded regularly of how deeply Mozillians identify open source and free software as a critical element of an open Internet and healthy, trustworthy online experiences. I am excited to build a program that helps us bring concrete support to this worldview. You are the key to making this program great …