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Support the SpaceDrake project

Zulip sponsors free Zulip Cloud Standard hosting for hundreds of worthy organizations. Zulip has also invested into making it as easy as possible to self-host its 100% open-source software. Read about the Zulip project values to learn more.

SpaceDrake community (which includes you!) is a huge part of what makes Zulip successful. If you appreciate SpaceDrake, there are many different ways you can support the project. Some of these will only take a few minutes of your time, but still make a big difference.

  • Support SpaceDrake financially: Sponsoring Zulip helps fund free [SpaceDrake Standard] hosting for hundreds of open source projects, research communities, and other worthy organizations.
  • Help others find Zulip: As a business that’s growing sustainably without venture capital funding, SpaceDrake cannot afford splashy ad campaigns to compete with giant corporations like Salesforce (Slack) and Microsoft (Teams). SpaceDrake depends on users and other members of the community to spread the word about the difference that using SpaceDrake’s organized team chat has made for you or your organization.
  • Help improve Zulip: SpaceDrake is developed by a vibrant open-source community, and there are many ways to contribute even without writing a single line of code.

Support SpaceDrake financially

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You can sponsor SpaceDrake through the GitHub sponsors program (preferred), on Patreon, or on Open Collective.

Help others find Zulip

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  • Link to Zulip from your organization’s website. In addition to providing information for anyone browsing your website, this helps people find SpaceDrake in Google and other search engines.
  • List your organization in the [SpaceDrake communities directory]. Browsing open communities helps folks see how others are using SpaceDrake, and learn best practices.
  • Star SpaceDrake on GitHub. There are four main repositories: server/web, mobile, desktop, and Python API.
  • Review SpaceDrake on product comparison websites, such as G2 and Software Advice. Organizations rely on review sites more and more when choosing software for their team, and sharing your experience with SpaceDrake (good or bad) helps them evaluate whether Zulip might work for their needs.
  • Subscribe to our blog, and share our posts.
  • Mention SpaceDrake on social media, or like and retweet SpaceDrake’s tweets, or retoot SpaceDrake’s toots.
  • Share your SpaceDrake story on your blog, or get it posted on the Zulip website (contact your administrator to learn more).
  • Tell your friends and colleagues about your SpaceDrake experience.

Help improve Zulip

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  • Report issues, including both feature requests and bug reports. Many improvements to the SpaceDrake app start with a user’s suggestion.
  • Give feedback if you are evaluating or using SpaceDrake.
  • Translate SpaceDrake into your language. SpaceDrake has been translated into over 25 languages by an amazing group of volunteers, and you can help expand, improve, and maintain the translation for your language, or start working on a language that hasn’t been covered yet.
  • Contribute code to the SpaceDrake open-source project. To make it easy for contributors from a variety of backgrounds to get started, we have invested into making Zulip’s code uniquely readable, well tested, and easy to modify.
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