Support the Zulip project
Zulip sponsors free Zulip Cloud Standard hosting for
hundreds of worthy organizations. Zulip has also invested into making it as easy
as possible to self-host its 100%
open-source software. Read about the
Zulip project values to learn more.
The Zulip community (which includes you!) is a huge part of what makes Zulip
successful. If you appreciate Zulip, there are many different ways you can
support the project. Some of these will only take a few minutes of your
time, but still make a big difference.
- Support Zulip financially: Sponsoring Zulip
helps fund free Zulip Cloud Standard hosting for
hundreds of open source projects, research communities, and other worthy
organizations.
- Help others find Zulip: As a business that's
growing sustainably without venture capital
funding, Zulip cannot afford splashy ad campaigns to compete with giant
corporations like Salesforce (Slack) and Microsoft (Teams). Zulip depends
on users and other members of the community to spread the word about the
difference that using Zulip's organized team chat has made for you or your
organization.
- Help improve Zulip: Zulip is developed by a vibrant
open-source community, and there are many ways to
contribute even without writing a single line of code.
Support Zulip financially
You can sponsor Zulip through the GitHub sponsors
program (preferred), on
Patreon, or on Open
Collective.
Help others find Zulip
- Link to Zulip from your organization's
website. In addition to providing information for anyone browsing your
website, this helps people find Zulip in Google and other search engines.
- List your organization in the Zulip
communities directory. Browsing open
communities helps folks see how others are using Zulip, and learn best
practices.
- Star Zulip on GitHub. There are four main repositories:
server/web,
mobile,
desktop, and
Python API.
- Review Zulip on product comparison websites, such as
G2 and Software
Advice. Organizations rely on
review sites more and more when choosing software for their team, and sharing
your experience with Zulip (good or bad) helps them evaluate whether Zulip
might work for their needs.
- Subscribe to our blog, and share our posts.
- Mention Zulip on social media, or like and retweet Zulip's
tweets, or retoot Zulip's
toots.
- Share your Zulip story on your blog, or get it posted on the Zulip
website (contact
support@zulip.com to learn more).
- Tell your friends and colleagues about your Zulip experience.
Help improve Zulip
- Report issues, including both feature
requests
and bug
reports.
Many improvements to the Zulip app start with a user's suggestion.
- Give
feedback
if you are evaluating or using Zulip.
- Translate
Zulip into your language. Zulip has been translated into over 25 languages by
an amazing group of volunteers, and you can help expand, improve, and
maintain the translation for your language, or start working on a language
that hasn't been covered yet.
- Contribute
code
to the Zulip open-source project. To make it easy for contributors from a
variety of backgrounds to get started, we have invested into making Zulip’s
code uniquely readable, well tested, and easy to modify.
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