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behind everything we do as we <br /> work to build the world’s best organized team chat. </p> </div> </div> <div class="main"> <div class="padded-content"> <div class="inner-content markdown"> <h2 id="building-software-that-will-always-be-there-for-our-users">Building software that will always be there for our users</h2> <p>When choosing software that will be core to how one’s organization operates, such as a team chat platform, there is an important question: “Will this product still exist and be responsibly maintained in a few years?”</p> <p>We have designed our company, community, and technology with the explicit goal of Zulip being actively developed for many years to come.</p> <p>This theme cuts across many of the decisions described below. It is also reflected in our <a href="/history/">history</a>: Zulip's <a href="/case-studies/recurse-center/">earliest customers</a> have enjoyed uninterrupted service since 2013.</p> <h2 id="keeping-zulip-100-open-source">Keeping Zulip 100% open source</h2> <p>Many modern “open-source” companies use a version of their product with some basic functionality intentionally removed as a demo for their non-open-source paid product. In contrast, we are committed to keeping Zulip <a href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip#readme">100% open source</a>.</p> <p>When you <a href="/self-hosting/">self-host Zulip</a>, you get all the <a href="/features/">features</a> of our cloud offering. We work hard to <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/install.html">make it easy</a> to set up and run a self-hosted Zulip installation without paying us a dime, which is why thousands of organizations do so.</p> <h2 id="investing-in-community-and-mentorship">Investing in community and mentorship</h2> <p>Zulip is developed by a <a href="/team/">vibrant open-source community</a>, and we are fully committed to helping bring up the next generation of open-source contributors from a wide range of backgrounds.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/contributing.html">how to contribute to Zulip</a>, with topics ranging from <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git/index.html">practical Git tips</a> to <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/events-system.html">essays on important architectural decisions</a>.</p> <p>We also welcome and support contributors via <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/outreach/overview.html">formal internship programs</a>, with over 100 participants since 2016. 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