About Flarum

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.

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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.

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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

Technical account manager

@jaggy

Commercial

Meezaan-ud-Din Abdu Dhil-Jalali Wal-Ikram

Co-founder

@meezaan

Commercial

Mike Lundahl

Developer

@mikelundahl

Commercial

Story

Every milestone since Flarums inception in 2014.

December 20th 2014

Toby 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.
March 16th 2015

Franz 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.
August 15th 2019

Although 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.
March 25th 2020

The 1000th extension is published for the Flarum software.
May 25th 2021

Flarum reaches its first stable release after sixteen beta's over a period of seven years.
March 16th 2023

The 2000th extension is published for the Flarum software.
May 27nd 2024

Several 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.
December 21st, Saturday

Building extensible, truly open source community software and being a reliable partner for Flarum community design, development and scalable, managed Flarum hosting to 20 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.