Support Zulip on GitHub Sponsors

[Tim Abbott]

Dear community,

As you know, Zulip is 100% open source, and we work hard to make it easy to set up and run a self-hosted Zulip installation without paying us a dime, which is why thousands of organizations do so. 

In the past, many of you have asked whether there’s some way you can contribute financially to help the project or to thank us for the free support we provide in chat.zulip.org. We are excited to announce that this is now possible via GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, and Open Collective.

A few highlights from the announcement that you might be less familiar with:

• An important part of Zulip’s mission is ensuring that worthy organizations, from programming-language developers to research communities, are able to use Zulip whether or not they have funding.  For this reason, we sponsor Zulip Cloud Standard hosting for open source projects, non-profits, education, and academic research. This program has grown exponentially since its inception; today we are proud to fully sponsor Zulip hosting for several hundred organizations. 

• Our welcoming community is fully committed to helping bring up the next generation of open-source contributors from a wide range of backgrounds. We have invested into making Zulip’s code uniquely readable, well tested, and easy to modify. Beyond that, we have written an extraordinary 150K words of documentation on how to contribute to Zulip, with topics ranging from practical Git tips to essays on important architectural decisions.

If you appreciate the work we’re doing, please share the announcement with members of your community today, and invite them to support Zulip!

-Tim Abbott, for the Zulip team