Starting from our initial prototype work in late 2012, Discourse has always been a 100% open source project that builds upon the decades of hard work of many other open source projects to survive. We try to contribute as many upstream fixes as we can, particularly in the case of bugs we run into along the way — but we can and should do more. I’m happy to announce that this year, we’ve grown large enough to earmark funds to contribute directly to the projects we rely on most: