<commit_before>**[Zulip overview](#zulip-overview)** |
**[Community](#community)** |
**[Installing for dev](#installing-the-zulip-development-environment)** |
**[Installing for production](#running-zulip-in-production)** |
**[Ways to contribute](#ways-to-contribute)** |
**[How to get involved](#how-to-get-involved-with-contributing-to-zulip)** |
**[License](#license)**

# Zulip overview

Zulip is a powerful, open source group chat application. Written in
Python and using the Django framework, Zulip supports both private
messaging and group chats via conversation streams.

Zulip also supports fast search, drag-and-drop file uploads, image
previews, group private messages, audible notifications,
missed-message emails, desktop apps, and much more.

Further information on the Zulip project and its features can be found
at <https://www.zulip.org>.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/zulip/zulip.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/zulip/zulip)
[![Coverage Status](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/zulip/zulip.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/zulip/zulip)
[![Mypy coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/mypy-100%25-green.svg)](http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/)
[![docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zulip/badge/?version=latest)](http://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
[![Zulip chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/zulip-join_chat-brightgreen.svg)](https://chat.zulip.org)
[![Twitter](https://img.shields.io/badge/twitter-@zulip-blue.svg?style=flat)](http://twitter.com/zulip)

## Community

There are several places online where folks discuss Zulip.

* The primary place is the
  [Zulip development community Zulip server][czo-doc] at
  chat.zulip.org.

* For Google Summer of Code students and applicants, we have
[a mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zulip-gsoc)<commit_msg>docs: Update the pitch at the top of README.md.<commit_after>**[Zulip overview](#zulip-overview)** |
**[Community](#community)** |
**[Installing for dev](#installing-the-zulip-development-environment)** |
**[Installing for production](#running-zulip-in-production)** |
**[Ways to contribute](#ways-to-contribute)** |
**[How to get involved](#how-to-get-involved-with-contributing-to-zulip)** |
**[License](#license)**

# Zulip overview

Zulip is a powerful, open source group chat application that combines the
immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded
conversations. Zulip is used by open source projects, Fortune 500 companies,
large standards bodies, and others who need a real-time chat product that
scales to individuals getting hundreds or thousands of messages a day.
With over 300 contributors merging over 500 commits a month,
Zulip is also the largest and fastest growing open source group chat
project.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/zulip/zulip.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/zulip/zulip)
[![Coverage Status](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/zulip/zulip.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/zulip/zulip)
[![Mypy coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/mypy-100%25-green.svg)](http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/)
[![docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zulip/badge/?version=latest)](http://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
[![Zulip chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/zulip-join_chat-brightgreen.svg)](https://chat.zulip.org)
[![Twitter](https://img.shields.io/badge/twitter-@zulip-blue.svg?style=flat)](http://twitter.com/zulip)

## Community

There are several places online where folks discuss Zulip.

* The primary place is the
  [Zulip development community Zulip server][czo-doc] at
  chat.zulip.org.

* For Google Summer of Code students and applicants, we have
[a mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zulip-gsoc)
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