Credits

Belon.gs is built by a small team of awesome people from Finland.

Technology

We're using these awesome technologies to make it all possible:

• The Python programming language
  (With thanks to the developer ecosystem, blessing us with packages such as – in no particular order – pip, virtualenv, Babel, pytz, South, lxml, django-social-auth, etc.)
• The Django web framework
• ... with copious doses of Jinja2 templating, because – we're not afraid to say it – Django's templates suck.
• nginx and uwsgi, the Russian-Italian dynamic duo, for serving
• socket.io + gevent + gevent-socket.io, to power realtime chat
• MySQL to store most of our data
• ... but there's a bit of Redis tossed in too
• And to make it all snappy, memcached is there behind the curtains too
• jQuery and Underscore.js to make client-side scripting tolerable
• LESS.css and Bootstrap for styling
• We're using Debian systems running on Amazon AWS to host our stuff, natch
• ... Oh, and guess what? Everyone here develops on Windows boxen
• FUN FACT: We evaluated HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS to app appify the app-friendly iPad appification we had planned to release, but we couldn't get the grit repo attackcloned. (If you're an expert with these things, please shoot us a mail!)

Other contributors

Huge thanks and hugs and such to

• Janne Jalava for the original design of the Belon.gs mascot

We'd also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the following contributors of The Noun Project for icon stock material.

• George Agpoon, from The Noun Project
• Julia Soderberg, from The Noun Project
• Martin Karachorov, from The Noun Project
• Megan Hillman, from The Noun Project
• Okan Benn, from The Noun Project
• Stanislav Levin, from The Noun Project
• Nick Levesque
• The Noun Project contributors