Contribute to Chusme
Chusme isn't a startup.
It's a commons — built with and for the organizers who use it.
You can contribute by sharing feedback, funding your group's tools, helping improve the code, or running infrastructure to support others. Every contribution strengthens the ecosystem.
🧑🤝🧑 Organizers: Help Shape the Platform
We're building Chusme in close collaboration with mutual aid groups, tenant unions, cultural collectives, indigenous organizers, and volunteer communities.
You can contribute by:
- Giving feedback on features, flows, and language
- Helping design onboarding experiences for real-world groups
- Co-writing community guides and norms templates
- Running workshops or interviews to gather insight from your network
This isn't just "user feedback" — it's co-design. We build what organizers ask for, not what a product team imagines.
➡️ Talk to the Chusme team
➡️ Join our co-design sessions
💸 Financial Contributions
Chusme is free to use.
But like a community radio station or food coop, we rely on voluntary contributions to sustain it.
You can:
- Contribute personally to Chusme's core development
- Donate to your group's community fund
- Help unlock features like video hosting, public websites, or encrypted tools
- Fund moderators, interpreters, facilitators, and group leaders
Every group on Chusme manages its own fund — and decides how to spend it together.
➡️ Support a Group
➡️ Contribute to Chusme Development
💻 Developers: Build With Us
Chusme is open source and built with interoperability in mind.
Ways to contribute:
- Improve core Chusme components (messaging, UI, privacy features)
- Build custom onboarding flows, extensions, or bots
- Create tools for accessibility, moderation, or group governance
- File bugs, review issues, and help with documentation
We welcome contributors of all experience levels.
➡️ View the GitHub repo
➡️ Join the dev chat
🌐 Host a Relay or Mirror
Chusme uses Nostr — an open protocol for distributed communication.
This means:
- Your group can be mirrored across multiple relays
- You can host your own relay to control data and latency
- We don't own your group — you do
If you want to host a community relay:
- We'll help you get started with open-source tools
- You can serve just your group or many
- You'll be contributing to the resilience of the Chusme network
➡️ Relay Hosting Guide with NIP-29 Support
🧠 Contributions We Value
Whether you're a steward, a coder, a designer, or a facilitator, we need you.
| Role | Ways to Contribute |
|---|---|
| Community Organizer | Test features, co-design flows, write onboarding posts |
| Developer | Submit pull requests, debug, or build plugins |
| Writer/Translator | Help with copy, documentation, and multilingual access |
| Infra Hacker | Run a relay, self-host the app, build bridges to other tools |
| Educator | Create community guides, videos, or onboarding materials |
✨ A Community-Owned Platform
We're building Chusme so that it can't be bought, sold, or shut down.
The more we all contribute — time, insight, resources, code — the more resilient the ecosystem becomes.
Whether you're starting a neighborhood group or helping shape internet protocols, there's a place for you here.
➡️ Join the Movement → Launch the App
➡️ Read About the Vision