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# Zulip overview
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[Zulip](https://zulip.com) is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique
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[topic-based threading][why-zulip] that combines the best of email and chat to
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make remote work productive and delightful. Fortune 500 companies, [leading open
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source projects][rust-case-study], and thousands of other organizations use
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Zulip every day. Zulip is the only [modern team chat app][features] that is
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designed for both live and asynchronous conversations.
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Zulip is built by a distributed community of developers from all around the
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world, with 74+ people who have each contributed 100+ commits. With
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over 1000 contributors merging over 500 commits a month, Zulip is the
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largest and fastest growing open source team chat project.
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Come find us on the [development community chat](https://zulip.com/development-community/)!
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[![GitHub Actions build status](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/actions/workflows/zulip-ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/actions/workflows/zulip-ci.yml?query=branch%3Amain)
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[![coverage status](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/zulip/zulip/main.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/zulip/zulip)
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[![Mypy coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/mypy-100%25-green.svg)][mypy-coverage]
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[![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff)
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[![code style: prettier](https://img.shields.io/badge/code_style-prettier-ff69b4.svg)](https://github.com/prettier/prettier)
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[![GitHub release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/zulip/zulip.svg)](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/releases/latest)
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[![docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zulip/badge/?version=latest)](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
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[![Zulip chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/zulip-join_chat-brightgreen.svg)](https://chat.zulip.org)
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[![Twitter](https://img.shields.io/badge/twitter-@zulip-blue.svg?style=flat)](https://twitter.com/zulip)
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[![GitHub Sponsors](https://img.shields.io/github/sponsors/zulip)](https://github.com/sponsors/zulip)
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[mypy-coverage]: https://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/
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[why-zulip]: https://zulip.com/why-zulip/
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[rust-case-study]: https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/
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[features]: https://zulip.com/features/
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## Getting started
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- **Contributing code**. Check out our [guide for new
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contributors](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html)
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to get started. We have invested in making Zulip’s code highly
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readable, thoughtfully tested, and easy to modify. Beyond that, we
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have written an extraordinary 150K words of documentation for Zulip
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contributors.
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- **Contributing non-code**. [Report an
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issue](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html#reporting-issues),
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[translate](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/translating/translating.html)
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Zulip into your language, or [give us
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feedback](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html#user-feedback).
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We'd love to hear from you, whether you've been using Zulip for years, or are just
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trying it out for the first time.
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- **Checking Zulip out**. The best way to see Zulip in action is to drop by the
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[Zulip community server](https://zulip.com/development-community/). We also
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recommend reading about Zulip's [unique
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approach](https://zulip.com/why-zulip/) to organizing conversations.
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- **Running a Zulip server**. Self-host Zulip directly on Ubuntu or Debian
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Linux, in [Docker](https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip), or with prebuilt
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images for [Digital Ocean](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/zulip) and
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[Render](https://render.com/docs/deploy-zulip).
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Learn more about [self-hosting Zulip](https://zulip.com/self-hosting/).
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- **Using Zulip without setting up a server**. Learn about [Zulip
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Cloud](https://zulip.com/plans/) hosting options. Zulip sponsors free [Zulip
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Cloud Standard](https://zulip.com/plans/) for hundreds of worthy
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organizations, including [fellow open-source
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projects](https://zulip.com/for/open-source/).
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- **Participating in [outreach
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programs](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html#outreach-programs)**
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like [Google Summer of Code](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/)
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and [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/).
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- **Supporting Zulip**. Advocate for your organization to use Zulip, become a
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[sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/zulip), write a review in the mobile app
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stores, or [help others find
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Zulip](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html#help-others-find-zulip).
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You may also be interested in reading our [blog](https://blog.zulip.org/), and
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following us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/zulip) and
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[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zulip-project/).
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Zulip is distributed under the
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[Apache 2.0](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/LICENSE) license.
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