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+# Zulip overview
+
+[Zulip](https://zulip.com) is an open-source organized team chat app with unique
+[topic-based threading][why-zulip] that combines the best of email and chat to
+make remote work productive and delightful. Fortune 500 companies, [leading open
+source projects][rust-case-study], and thousands of other organizations use
+Zulip every day. Zulip is the only [modern team chat app][features] that is
+designed for both live and asynchronous conversations.
+
+Zulip is built by a distributed community of developers from all around the
+world, with 99+ people who have each contributed 100+ commits. With
+over 1,500 contributors merging over 500 commits a month, Zulip is the
+largest and fastest growing open source team chat project.
+
+Come find us on the [development community chat](https://zulip.com/development-community/)!
+
+[![GitHub Actions build status](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/actions/workflows/zulip-ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/actions/workflows/zulip-ci.yml?query=branch%3Amain)
+[![coverage status](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/zulip/zulip/main.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/zulip/zulip)
+[![Mypy coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/mypy-100%25-green.svg)][mypy-coverage]
+[![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff)
+[![code style: prettier](https://img.shields.io/badge/code_style-prettier-ff69b4.svg)](https://github.com/prettier/prettier)
+[![GitHub release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/zulip/zulip.svg)](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/releases/latest)
+[![docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zulip/badge/?version=latest)](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
+[![Zulip chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/zulip-join_chat-brightgreen.svg)](https://chat.zulip.org)
+[![Bluesky](https://img.shields.io/badge/bluesky-@zulip.bsky.social-blue.svg?style=flat)](https://bsky.app/profile/zulip.bsky.social)
+[![GitHub Sponsors](https://img.shields.io/github/sponsors/zulip)](https://github.com/sponsors/zulip)
+
+[mypy-coverage]: https://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/
+[why-zulip]: https://zulip.com/why-zulip/
+[rust-case-study]: https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/
+[features]: https://zulip.com/features/
+
+## Getting started
+
+- **Contributing code**. Check out our [guide for new
+  contributors](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html)
+  to get started. We have invested in making Zulip’s code highly
+  readable, thoughtfully tested, and easy to modify. Beyond that, we
+  have written an extraordinary 185K words of documentation for Zulip
+  contributors.
+
+- **Contributing non-code**. [Report an
+  issue](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/reporting-bugs.html),
+  [translate](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/translating/translating.html)
+  Zulip into your language, or [give us
+  feedback](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/suggesting-features.html).
+  We'd love to hear from you, whether you've been using Zulip for years, or are just
+  trying it out for the first time.
+
+- **Checking Zulip out**. The best way to see Zulip in action is to [drop
+  by](https://chat.zulip.org/?show_try_zulip_modal) the Zulip development
+  community (no account required). We also recommend reading about Zulip's
+  [unique approach](https://zulip.com/why-zulip/) to organizing conversations.
+
+- **Running a Zulip server**. Self-host Zulip directly on Ubuntu or Debian
+  Linux, in [Docker](https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip), or with prebuilt
+  images for [Digital Ocean](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/zulip) and
+  [Render](https://render.com/docs/deploy-zulip).
+  Learn more about [self-hosting Zulip](https://zulip.com/self-hosting/).
+
+- **Using Zulip without setting up a server**. Learn about [Zulip
+  Cloud](https://zulip.com/zulip-cloud/) hosting options. Zulip sponsors free [Zulip
+  Cloud Standard](https://zulip.com/plans/) for hundreds of worthy
+  organizations, including [fellow open-source
+  projects](https://zulip.com/for/open-source/).
+
+- **Participating in [outreach
+  programs](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/contributing.html#outreach-programs)**
+  like [Google Summer of Code](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/).
+
+- **Supporting Zulip**. Learn about all the ways you can [support
+  Zulip](https://zulip.com/help/support-zulip-project), including contributing
+  financially, and helping others discover it.
+
+You may also be interested in reading our [blog](https://blog.zulip.org/), and
+following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zulip-project/),
+[Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@zulip), and [X](https://x.com/zulip).
+
+Zulip is distributed under the
+[Apache 2.0](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/LICENSE) license.