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main Zulip project on GitHub</a> for details on how to get involved! main Zulip project on GitHub</a> for details on how to get involved!
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<h2>Zulip history</h2> <h2>Early history</h2>
<p> <p>
Zulip was originally developed by Zulip, Inc., a small startup in Zulip was originally developed by Zulip, Inc., a small startup in
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making the Zulip open source project possible. making the Zulip open source project possible.
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<h2>Success as an open source project</h2>
<p> <p>
By the end of 2015, the open source project was already going strong At first, the Zulip open source project was
with a community of dozens of developers around the world. By maintained with just a bit of lead developer Tim
late 2016, <a href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/graphs/contributors">more Abbott's nights and weekends. However, the
than 150 people from all over the world</a> have contributed community steadily gained new contributors, and
<a href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pulls">almost has now grown to be one of the world's largest and
1000 pull requests</a> to the software, and the most active open source projects. We highlight a
Zulip project is moving faster than when the few milestones below:
original startup employed 11 full-time engineers.
As of mid-2017, those numbers have ballooned to
almost 4000 pull requests written by over 300
developers.
</p> </p>
<ul>
<li>
By the end of 2015, the open source project
was already going strong with a community of
dozens of developers around the world.
</li>
<li>
At the PyCon Sprints in May 2016, dozens of
developers got involved in contributing to
Zulip; a major accomplishment from those
sprints
was <a href="https://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/">annotating
Zulip with mypy static types</a>.
</li>
<li>
By late
2016, <a href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/graphs/contributors">more
than 150 people from all over the world</a>
had contributed almost 1000 pull requests to
the software, and the Zulip project was moving
faster than when the original startup employed
11 full-time engineers.
</li>
<li>
At the PyCon Sprints in May 2017, dozens of
Zulip core developers gathered and led the
largest PyCon sprint ever, with over 75
developers contributing to Zulip over course
of the 4-day event.
</li>
<li>
As of August 2017, the Zulip server project had
merged <a href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pulls">over
4000 pull requests</a> written by
<a href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/graphs/contributors">well
over 325 developers</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<div class="contributors"> <div class="contributors">
<h2>Contributors</h2> <h2>Contributors</h2>
<p> <p>