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Mattermost Hackfest 2019 is underway!

Eric SethnaJanuary 28, 2019

Mattermost Hackfest is back! Win an exclusive Mattermost hoodie and stickers by making four pull requests between January 26, 2019 and February 28, 2019. The top contributor as chosen by the Mattermost team wins a Samsung Galaxy Watch! Pull requests can be made to any open issues with the “Hackfest” label in Mattermost-hosted GitHub repositories. …

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Hacktoberfest 2018 is here! It’s a chance to give back to communities you love

Corey HulenOctober 9, 2018

Hacktoberfest is back! After awesome experiences the last few years, Mattermost is thrilled to be participating in Hacktoberfest once again. The month-long contest, which is now in its fifth year, is sponsored by DigitalOcean, GitHub and Twilio. Hacktoberfest gives members of the open source community the opportunity to give back to the projects they love …

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Insights from our incredible plugin hackathon

Corey HulenAugust 28, 2018

At Mattermost, two of our top priorities are keeping our customers happy and keeping members of our awesome open source community engaged. On August 16 and 17, we paused the company on the R&D side for a virtual hackathon where our core committers worked with our open source contributors to hack our recently revamped plugin …

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Building a stronger open source community for our contributors at Mattermost

Jason BlaisAugust 23, 2018

We care a great deal about our engaged open source community, which has had thousands of contributions over the last three years. Recently, we sent a survey to our contributors asking them to share feedback about their experiences. Their responses were overwhelmingly positive, but we did identify some potential ways to improve the experience further. …

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The secret to thousands of contributions to the Mattermost open source project

Jason BlaisAugust 8, 2018

Three years after launching, there are over 1,000 open source projects on GitHub that integrate with Mattermost. Our contributors have also added hundreds of amazing features to Mattermost. We’re reflecting on how we got here—and what we’re doing next to build an even stronger community for our contributors. We’ve gotten closer to our community in 2018; …

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MatterCon 2018 Community Meetup Highlights

Corey HulenMay 2, 2018

Earlier this year, the Mattermost product team, core contributors and members from our community came together in Lisbon, Portugal for MatterCon 2018. We’re a globally distributed team, so it’s nice to meet up every now and again with colleagues and users and hang out in person, discuss the product roadmap and refine our open source …

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MatterCon 2018 Hackathon Highlights

Corey HulenApril 5, 2018

MatterCon brings the Mattermost product team, core contributors and community members together to discuss the product roadmap, hack together and meet in person. As a globally remote team, it’s nice to see each other every few months. MatterCon 2018 brought us to Lisbon, Portugal. It was a productive and fun event. One of my favorite …

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100 most popular Mattermost features invented and contributed by our amazing open source community

Justin ReynoldsJanuary 11, 2018

As the world’s largest open source project on enterprise collaboration, Mattermost depends on input and contributions from thousands of companies and collaborators to invent and develop new capabilities. Just over two years from its start on June 28, 2015, the open source project has grown tremendously, now offering a powerful, robust, easy-to-install server and high-quality …

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Open Source 100: George Goldberg, Mattermost Core Committer

Amy BlaisDecember 20, 2017

Open source software has transformed the world. This powerful idea—technology shared through a special license that permits its free use and repurposing—is at the heart of almost every major software system in the world, from the website you’re reading to mobile app on your phone. Billions of people benefit from open source. But only a …

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Carlos Panato wins Mattermost 2017 Hacktoberfest award

Amy BlaisDecember 18, 2017

The 2017 Hacktoberfest event, which is sponsored by DigitalOcean and hosted by GitHub, was once again a major success. During the month of October, developers from across the world contributed to more than 64,000 open source repositories, submitting nearly 240,000 pull requests. Amazing! We’re pleased to announce the winner of our 2017 Mattermost Hacktoberfest Award: …