# Discourse team grows to 20
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978 "2017-11-13T12:33:47Z")
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/1 "2017-11-13T12:33:47Z")
Originally published at: [Discourse team grows to 20](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/11/discourse-team-grows-to-20/)
Over the last few months we’ve added a whopping 9 members to the Discourse team! We held off on any big announcements until our new [team page](https://www.discourse.org/team) was ready for primetime.
**Behold the first twenty!**
The nine new arrivals are as follows:
- **Joffrey Jaffeux** - Software Engineer
- **Sarah Hawk** - Community Advocate
- **Michael Brown** - Operations Engineer
- **Joshua Rosenfield** - Technical Advocate
- **Gerhard Schlager** - Software Engineer
- **Andrew Schleifer** - Operations Engineer
- **Kris Aubuchon** - Designer
- **Vinoth Kannan** - Software Engineer
- **Simon Cossar** - Technical Advocate
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### Author:  [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/2 "2017-11-13T13:27:40Z")
Congratulations to all the new ones on the team!
## 🚀 Discourse to the moon! 😉
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### Author:  [@travis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/travis)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/3 "2017-11-17T17:58:45Z")
Love the Roman busts 😄
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/4 "2017-11-17T19:53:40Z")
Yes that was @erlend_sh’s idea 👍
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/5 "2017-11-17T20:04:39Z")
Jeff’s bust should be wearing a diadem. Then, the pantheon is complete.
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### Author:  [@oiclid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oiclid)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/6 "2017-11-19T22:16:12Z")
Is there any significance to the directions the busts are facing and their background colors?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/7 "2017-11-20T00:21:04Z")
> [@oiclid](#):
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> Is there any significance to the directions the busts are facing and their background colors?
No. I think the only thing of significance on any of them is my hawk feather! I wanted wings…
We gave the artist a few disparate pictures of our faces on different angles and he came back with these amazing drawings. We then randomly chose background colours because we were having difficulty distinguishing between our avatars at a glance.
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### Author:  [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-team-grows-to-20/73978/8 "2022-02-12T06:34:51Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> We gave the artist a few disparate pictures
I always thought some cool tiktok filters like app/software did those pictures lol 😉