Support the LaboChat project
LaboChat sponsors free LaboChat Cloud Standard hosting for hundreds of worthy organizations. LaboChat has also invested into making it as easy as possible to self-host its 100% open-source software. Read about the LaboChat project values to learn more.
The LaboChat community (which includes you!) is a huge part of what makes LaboChat successful. If you appreciate LaboChat, 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 LaboChat financially: Sponsoring LaboChat helps fund free LaboChat Cloud Standard hosting for hundreds of open source projects, research communities, and other worthy organizations.
- Help others find LaboChat: As an open-source project stewarded by a non-profit foundation, LaboChat cannot afford splashy ad campaigns to compete with giant corporations like Salesforce (Slack) and Microsoft (Teams). LaboChat depends on users and other members of the community to spread the word about the difference that using LaboChat’s organized team chat has made for you or your organization.
- Help improve LaboChat: LaboChat is developed by a vibrant open-source community, and there are many ways to contribute even without writing a single line of code.
Support LaboChat financially
Section titled “Support LaboChat financially”You can sponsor LaboChat through the GitHub sponsors program (preferred), on Patreon, or on Open Collective.
Help others find LaboChat
Section titled “Help others find LaboChat”- Link to LaboChat from your organization’s website. In addition to providing information for anyone browsing your website, this helps people find LaboChat in Google and other search engines.
- List your organization in the LaboChat communities directory. Browsing open communities helps folks see how others are using LaboChat, and learn best practices.
- Star LaboChat on GitHub. There are four main repositories: server/web, mobile, desktop, and Python API.
- Review LaboChat 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 LaboChat (good or bad) helps them evaluate whether LaboChat might work for their needs.
- Subscribe to our blog, and share our posts.
- Mention LaboChat on social media, or like and repost LaboChat’s Bluesky posts, or retoot LaboChat’s toots.
- Share your LaboChat story on your blog, or get it posted on the LaboChat website (contact support@zulip.com to learn more).
- Tell your friends and colleagues about your LaboChat experience.
Help improve LaboChat
Section titled “Help improve LaboChat”- Report issues, including both feature requests and bug reports. Many improvements to the LaboChat app start with a user’s suggestion.
- Give feedback if you are evaluating or using LaboChat.
- Translate LaboChat into your language. LaboChat 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 LaboChat open-source project. To make it easy for contributors from a variety of backgrounds to get started, we have invested into making LaboChat’s code uniquely readable, well tested, and easy to modify.