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# Support the Zulip project
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{!supporting-zulip-motivation.md!}
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The Zulip community (which includes you!) is a huge part of what makes Zulip
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successful. If you appreciate Zulip, there are many different ways you can
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support the project. Some of these will only take a few minutes of your
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time, but still make a big difference.
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* [Support Zulip financially](#support-zulip-financially): Sponsoring Zulip
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helps fund free [Zulip Cloud Standard](https://zulip.com/plans/) hosting for
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hundreds of open source projects, research communities, and other worthy
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organizations.
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* [Help others find Zulip](#help-others-find-zulip): As a business that's
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[growing sustainably](https://zulip.com/values/) without venture capital
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funding, Zulip cannot afford splashy ad campaigns to compete with giant
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corporations like Salesforce (Slack) and Microsoft (Teams). Zulip depends
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on users and other members of the community to spread the word about the
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difference that using Zulip's organized team chat has made for you or your
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organization.
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* [Help improve Zulip](#help-improve-zulip): Zulip is developed by a [vibrant
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open-source community](https://zulip.com/team/), and there are many ways to
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contribute even without writing a single line of code.
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## Support Zulip financially
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You can sponsor Zulip through the [GitHub sponsors
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program](https://github.com/sponsors/zulip) (preferred), on
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[Patreon](https://patreon.com/zulip), or on [Open
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Collective](https://opencollective.com/zulip).
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## Help others find Zulip
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* [**Link to Zulip**](/help/linking-to-zulip-website) from your organization's
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website. In addition to providing information for anyone browsing your
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website, this helps people find Zulip in Google and other search engines.
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* [**List your organization**](/help/communities-directory) in the [Zulip
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communities directory](https://zulip.com/communities/). Browsing open
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communities helps folks see how others are using Zulip, and learn best
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practices.
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* **Star** Zulip on GitHub. There are four main repositories:
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[server/web](https://github.com/zulip/zulip),
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[mobile](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile),
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[desktop](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop), and
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[Python API](https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api).
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* **Review** Zulip on product comparison websites, such as
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[G2](https://www.g2.com/products/zulip/reviews/start) and [Software
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Advice](https://reviews.softwareadvice.com/new/316022). Organizations rely on
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review sites more and more when choosing software for their team, and sharing
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your experience with Zulip (good or bad) helps them evaluate whether Zulip
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might work for their needs.
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* **Mention** Zulip on social media, or like and retweet [Zulip's
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tweets](https://twitter.com/zulip).
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* **Share** your Zulip story on your blog, or get it posted [on the Zulip
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website](https://zulip.com/use-cases/#customer-stories) (contact
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[support@zulip.com](mailto:support@zulip.com) to learn more).
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* **Tell** your friends and colleagues about your Zulip experience.
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## Help improve Zulip
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* **Report issues**, including both [feature
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requests](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/suggesting-features.html)
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and [bug
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reports](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/reporting-bugs.html).
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Many improvements to the Zulip app start with a user's suggestion.
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* [**Give
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feedback**](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contributing/contributing.html#user-feedback)
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if you are evaluating or using Zulip.
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* [**Translate**](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/translating/translating.html)
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Zulip into your language. Zulip has been translated into over 25 languages by
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an amazing group of volunteers, and you can help expand, improve, and
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maintain the translation for your language, or start working on a language
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that hasn't been covered yet.
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* [**Contribute
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code**](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contributing/contributing.html)
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to the Zulip open-source project. To make it easy for contributors from a
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variety of backgrounds to get started, we have invested into making Zulip’s
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code uniquely readable, well tested, and easy to modify.
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## Related articles
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* [Zulip project values](https://zulip.com/values/)
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* [Linking to Zulip](/help/linking-to-zulip-website)
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* [Zulip communities directory](/help/communities-directory)
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* [Contact Zulip](/help/contact-support)
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