# The Community Champions Program

DevFeed: [The Community Champions Program](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-community-champions-program-13444.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zed.dev/blog/community-champions>)

Author: Joseph Lyons

Published: 2026-06-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Zed Industries - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zed-industries-blog.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Discord](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/discord.md>), [Atom](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/atom.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contribution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contribution.md>), [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [discord](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/discord.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [people](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/people.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quality.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

Zed describes its Community Champions program, which formally recognizes active contributors who improve the project through code, issues, code review, and community engagement. The article explains how champions are identified and how their status helps signal contributions for prioritization.

## Source excerpt

How we recognize our frequent contributors.