# Discourse Gives Back 2017
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [December 22, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598 "2017-12-22T00:29:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/1 "2017-12-22T00:29:05Z")
Originally published at: [Discourse Gives Back 2017](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/12/discourse-gives-back-2017/)
We’ve had a fantastic year at Discourse, growing our team to ~~20~~ 21 people. (There’s also something exciting and major happening early in 2018 that we’ve worked hard on for the last six months that we can’t quite announce yet. But trust me when I say we are very excited!) Starting from our initial prototype…
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/2 "2017-12-22T00:34:51Z")
Congratulations and well done!! 👍
As a forum admin for over 10 years - Discourse is by far my favourite forum platform now, and I love seeing it go from strength to strength and seeing the platform and team evolve and grow.
I look forward to hearing your major announcement for 2018 and wish you all the best!
Thank you and well done for all those initiatives!!
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/3 "2017-12-22T14:36:25Z")
cant like this enough!!!
im so grateful for the team and the product… it’s a huge part of what i do now and my professional future! in short… it couldn’t have been possible without discourse!
you (the discourse team) are changing lives! this isnt hyperbole… this is fact.
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### Author:  [@Senthil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Senthil)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/4 "2017-12-23T16:15:58Z")
Congratulations and well done discourse team. That is 55K in donations for the Open Source software alone.
The diversity in the selection of organizations to support is great.
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/6 "2017-12-25T21:59:54Z")
Bravo! We love Discourse and the team
go go go
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### Author:  [@aaronsmulktis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aaronsmulktis)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/7 "2017-12-27T17:47:09Z")
WOooOoo!!! 🤘
What an amazing example of the power and positivity of open-source. Richard Stallman must be one happy camper.
Thank you for your excellent work, and your commitment to growth…
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### Author:  [@SouperC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SouperC)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/8 "2018-01-12T17:18:18Z")
How did I not see this until now!? This. Is Awesome! 👊
Bravo @codinghorror and team.
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### Author:  [@lognaturel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lognaturel)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/9 "2018-01-16T05:30:43Z")
This is so inspiring! Congrats and thank you for setting a great example!
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/10 "2018-02-08T04:41:13Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> There’s also something exciting and major happening early in 2018 that we’ve worked hard on for the last six months that we can’t quite announce yet. But trust me when I say we are very excited!
Am I the only one holding their breath?
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/11 "2018-02-08T04:43:10Z")
Nope, the entire Discourse team is turning blue.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/13 "2018-07-04T10:05:25Z")
Great corporate responsibility guys!
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> something exciting and major happening early in 2018
📅🤔😅
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### Author:  [@antho1404](https://meta.discourse.org/u/antho1404)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/15 "2020-02-17T10:55:13Z")
Is it still something that discourse is doing? If so would be great to continue to write about it and advertise this. Open source needs funding for developers working on open source but also companies using these open-source tools, so this kind of action is great.
I’m also advocating open-source funding in general through a list of tools that can be used in this end. You might be interested in that [https://monetizeyourcode.com/](https://monetizeyourcode.com/).
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/16 "2020-02-17T11:39:03Z")
> [@antho1404](#):
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> Is it still something that discourse is doing?
Absolutely yes, we are continuing to do so.
> [@antho1404](#):
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> would be great to continue to write about it
We will do it soon.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gives-back-2017/76598/17 "2020-09-07T16:55:05Z")
Here it is
> [@Discourse Still Gives Back](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-still-gives-back/161881):
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> Originally published at: [Discourse Still Gives Back | BlogDiscourse](https://blog.discourse.org/2020/08/discourse-still-gives-back/) When Discourse Gives Back was last published in 2017, we were delighted and humbled to see the wider Discourse community resonate with our mission to give back to the open source projects we rely on. While we admit that we dropped the ball on continuing this series of blog posts, our commitment to giving back…