Flarum Foundation
The non-profit behind Flarum
The Flarum Foundation (Stichting Flarum) is a Dutch non-profit organisation that owns and governs the Flarum project — ensuring it remains free, open-source, and community-driven, regardless of changes in personnel or commercial circumstances.
Our mission
The Foundation is the sole legal owner of the Flarum software, its name, trademarks, and assets. It holds copyrights on behalf of the open-source project and sets the governance framework, ensuring no single company or individual can ever take control of Flarum's future.
Flarum is released under the MIT License and will remain so. The Foundation structure exists precisely to guarantee this — no single company or individual can close the source or change the licensing terms.
The team
The Foundation is governed by a small board of trusted, long-standing community members. Day-to-day development and community management is carried out by a broader team of volunteers from around the world.
Meet the full teamOur story
Flarum has been a long time in the making. Here are some of the milestones along the way.
Toby Zerner open-sources Flarum, cancelling a Kickstarter campaign to instead provide better forum software freely for everyone.
Franz Liedke joins the project with a shared vision: very basic forum software done right, with only the essential features.
The Flarum Foundation is established to safeguard the project's independence and long-term future.
After seven years of beta development, Flarum reaches its first stable release.
The 2000th extension is published in the Flarum ecosystem.
Ecosystem projects are unified under flarum.org.
Contact
For official enquiries — partnerships, legal matters, trademarks, or anything else directed at the Foundation — reach out via the contact form or email us directly.