mirror of https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
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The Zulip core developers have decades of combined experience writing and
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maintaining free and open source software. We use Zulip to keep contributors
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engaged, efficiently make decisions, and fashion the day-to-day experience
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of being a part of our project. No other chat product comes close to Zulip
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in facilitating contributor engagement, making efficient use of maintainers'
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time, and upholding the values of the FOSS community.
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If you haven't read [why Zulip](/why-zulip), read that first. We've also
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collected a list of features we think will be of particular interest for
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open source communities using Zulip.
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### Free hosting at zulipchat.com
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No catch; the hosting is supported by (and is identical to) zulipchat.com's
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commercial offerings. This offer extends to any community involved in
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supporting free and open source software: development projects, foundations,
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meetups, hackathons, conference committees, and more. If you’re not sure
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whether your organization qualifies, send us an email at
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support@zulipchat.com.
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### Scale to thousands of users
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For those running Zulip at home, we’ve done a lot of work to ensure that
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drive-by members of the community don’t consume too many disk or CPU
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resources. A Zulip server with 1000 active members and 10000 inactive
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members takes about as many resources as a Zulip server with 1000 active
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members.
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### Join without an invitation
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Allow anyone to
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[join without an invitation](/help/allow-anyone-to-join-without-an-invitation).
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You can also link to your Zulip with a [badge](/help/join-zulip-chat-badge)
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in your readme document.
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### Authenticate with GitHub
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Allow (or require) users to
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[authenticate with their GitHub account][github-auth], instead of with their
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email address.
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[github-auth]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/7e9926233/zproject/prod_settings_template.py#L112
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### Quality data export
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Our high quality export and import tools ensure you can always move from
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[zulipchat.com](https://zulipchat.com) hosting to your own servers.
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### Syntax highlighting
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[Full Markdown support](/help/format-your-message-using-markdown), including
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syntax highlighting, makes it easy to discuss code, paste an error message,
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or explain a complicated point. Full LaTeX support as well.
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### Permalink from issues to chat
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[Permalink to Zulip conversations](/help/share-a-message-or-conversation)
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from your issue tracker. Zulip’s topic-based threading keeps conversations
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coherent and organized.
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### Link from chat to issues
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Efficiently refer to issues or code reviews with notation like `#1234` or
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`T1234`. You can set up any regex as a
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[custom linkification filter](/help/add-a-custom-linkification-filter) for
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your organization.
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### Enforce a code of conduct
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Link to your community norms or give other instructions right on your Zulip
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registration page. Admins can delete messages and deactivate (ban) users at
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any time.
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### Hundreds of integrations
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Get events from GitHub, Travis CI, JIRA, and
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[hundreds of other tools](/integrations) right in Zulip. Topics give each
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issue its own place for discussion.
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### Free and open source
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Don’t like something? You can
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[open an issue](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues),
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[submit a patch](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/overview.html),
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[fork the project](https://github.com/zulip/zulip), or chat with us directly
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at [chat.zulip.org](https://chat.zulip.org). All code, including the
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[desktop](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-electron) and
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[mobile](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile) apps, is under the Apache 2
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license.
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### Proven model
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Check out [chat.zulip.org](https://chat.zulip.org) to see Zulip in action
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for a project with ~5000 messages of developer discussion a week. The Zulip
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project is the largest and fastest-growing open source group chat product,
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both by number of contributors (300+) and by commit velocity (more than
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Docker and Django combined).
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### Public archive (coming soon)
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Allow search engines to index your chat, with a read-only view of your
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public streams. Zulip’s topic-based threading keeps conversations coherent
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and organized, enabling a meaningful archive.
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