--- title: "The Community Champions Program — Zed's Blog" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-community-champions-program-zed-s-blog-vkl4djjoa source_url: https://zed.dev/blog/community-champions type: article source: "Zed" published: 2026-06-02T14:38:36.865Z updated: 2026-06-07T17:51:25.036Z tags: ["open-source", "community", "zed"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Community Champions Program — Zed's Blog **[Zed](https://daily.dev/sources/zed)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Zed has launched a Community Champions program to formally recognize its most active and committed open-source contributors. Since going open source, the Zed repository has grown to over 84k GitHub stars, ranking in the top 200 most-starred repos. From January through May 2026, 527 unique non-staff contributors submitted 1,194 merged pull requests. Champions are identified through internal dashboards and team members' first-hand experience, and their issues and PRs are automatically labeled via a GitHub workflow. Over 60 champions are currently recognized for contributing quality code, filing well-formed issues, and helping users in Discord and GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Hired Through GitHub: Part 1 — Zed's Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/hired-through-github-part-1-zed-s-blog-y3gqpjadz) · Zed · 73 upvotes · 0 comments - [Zed Guild: What We Built, What We Learned — Zed's Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/zed-guild-what-we-built-what-we-learned-zed-s-blog-yofpmqrd5) · Zed · 53 upvotes · 6 comments - [Hired Through GitHub: Part 2 — Zed's Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/hired-through-github-part-2-zed-s-blog-9w2lmwg1j) · Zed · 38 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#zed](https://daily.dev/tags/zed) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-community-champions-program-zed-s-blog-vkl4djjoa)