From 82d86138421c610a2065386e6aa5190a81a03255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rishi Gupta Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:25:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] portico: Update /history. I didn't remove zulip_version from context_processors since it seems likely that we'll want to put that information somewhere on portico at some point. --- templates/zerver/history.html | 109 ++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/zerver/history.html b/templates/zerver/history.html index 373857fde3..00e546d16b 100644 --- a/templates/zerver/history.html +++ b/templates/zerver/history.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ {% extends "zerver/portico.html" %} {% block title %} -Zulip: the best group chat for open source projects +Zulip history {% endblock %} {% block customhead %} @@ -18,84 +18,18 @@
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About the Zulip project

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Learn about the history of the Zulip project and community!

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Zulip History

- Developers contributing to Zulip at the PyCon 2017 - sprints in Portland, Oregon. Over 75 people - sprinted on Zulip during the 4-day event! + Zulip at the PyCon Sprints in Portland, Oregon. + Over seventy-five people sprinted during the four day event.
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About Zulip

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- This server is an installation of version {{ zulip_version }} of - the Zulip open source group chat - software. Written in Python and using the Django web framework, - Zulip has an extensive real-time messaging featureset, including - both group and private messaging, conversation streams, powerful - search, drag-and-drop file uploads, image previews, audible - notifications, missed-message emails, markdown formatting, desktop - and mobile apps, dozens of integrations, and much, much more. -

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- Zulip was designed from the ground up to optimize the productivity - of discussions and real-time decision-making. Zulip's unique model - for threading topics, together with its system for tracking unread - messages, make it easy to have multiple simultaneous conversations - in the same stream. As a result, Zulip is more efficient than any - other chat product for catching up on conversations you missed while - you were away from your devices. You can read exactly the threads - that are important to you, and it feels natural to follow up on - conversations that happened while you were away. -

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- Zulip's vision is to create the world's best group chat software, - completely open source, so that everyone has the freedom to - customize, improve, and run their own copy of this essential piece - of collaboration infrastructure. -

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- Further information on the Zulip project and its - features can be found on - the Zulip open source project's - website and - the Zulip - documentation. -

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Zulip Community

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- Zulip is developed by a vibrant community of developers from around - the world. Every month, dozens of people contribute code to it, and - dozens more contribute bug reports, feedback, and translations. The - Zulip community welcomes new contributors from any background. The - project has an easy to install development environment, an extensive - test suite, - and over 100,000 - words of developer documentation to make it easy for new - contributors to contribute effectively to the project. -

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Contributing to Zulip

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- If you'd like to join the Zulip community, we'd love to have you! - Please - visit the - main Zulip project on GitHub for details on how to get involved! -

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Early history

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Early history

Zulip was originally developed by Zulip, Inc., a small startup in @@ -114,9 +48,9 @@ users loved Zulip's unique user experience and continued using it, despite the fact that the product was not being actively developed. After a - year and a half, Dropbox generously decided to release Zulip as open - source software so that Zulip's users could continue enjoying the - software. + year and a half, Dropbox generously decided to + release Zulip as open source software + so that Zulip's users could continue enjoying the software.

@@ -139,7 +73,7 @@ making the Zulip open source project possible.

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Success as an open source project

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Success as an open source project

At first, the Zulip open source project was @@ -175,7 +109,7 @@ 11 full-time engineers.

  • - At the PyCon Sprints in May 2017, dozens of + At the PyCon Sprints in May 2017, tens of Zulip core developers gathered and led the largest PyCon sprint ever, with over 75 developers contributing to Zulip over course @@ -185,10 +119,29 @@ As of August 2017, the Zulip server project had merged over 4000 pull requests written by - well - over 325 developers. + + 325 developers.
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    Commercial (re-)launch

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    + In 2016, Tim Abbott started a company, Kandra Labs, to + steward and financially sustain Zulip's development. Kandra + Labs was soon awarded + a large grant from + the US National Science Foundation, and also acquired + additional sources of funding. +

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    + In 2017, Kandra Labs launched two products: a hosted + Zulip service + at zulipchat.com, + and an enterprise support product for on-premise + deployments. +

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