This project is about freedom, privacy and choice. We want to enable people to chat with one another in a safe way. Thus supporting encryption (OTR, PGP, OMEMO, OX) and being decentralized, meaning everyone can run their own server. We believe [XMPP](https://xmpp.org/) is a great proven protocol with an excellent community serving this purpose well.
Feel free to follow us on [twitter](https://twitter.com/profanityim), join our [mailing list](https://lists.notraces.net/mailman/listinfo/profanity) and/or [MUC](xmpp:profanity@rooms.dismail.de?join).
Our [user guide](https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html) contains an [install](https://profanity-im.github.io/guide/latest/install.html) section and a section for [building](https://profanity-im.github.io/guide/latest/build.html) from source yourself.
We would highly appreciate it if you support us via [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/jubalh/). Especially if you make feature requests or need help using Profanity.
Issues backed by a sponsor will be tagged with the [sponsored](https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues?q=label%3Asponsored+) label.
Feature requests that we consider out of scope, either because of interest or because of time needed to implement them, will be marked with the [unfunded](https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues?q=label%3Aunfunded) label.
Another way to sponsor us or get an issue solved is to create a [bug bounty](https://www.bountysource.com/teams/profanity/issues).
Here one sets a bounty on a certain task and once the task is completed you send the money to the person who did the work.
We tried to sum things up on our [helpout](https://profanity-im.github.io/helpout.html) page.
Additionally you can check out our [blog](https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/) where we have articles like:
[How to get a backtrace](https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/how-to-get-a-backtrace/) and [Contributing a Patch via GitHub](https://profanity-im.github.io/blog/post/contributing-a-patch-via-github/).
To get help, first read our [User Guide](https://profanity-im.github.io/userguide.html) then check out the [FAQ](https://profanity-im.github.io/faq.html).
If you have are having a problem then first search the [issue tracker](https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues).
If you don't find anything there either come to our [MUC](xmpp:profanity@rooms.dismail.de?join) or create a new issue depending on what your problem is.
