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The sixth annual Hacktoberfest celebration is underway, and we’re happy to be a part of the contest once again! Hacktoberfest is a month-long event that encourages members of the open source community to contribute to the projects they love.  This year, during October, the first 50,000 people who submit at least four pull requests to …

Win an exclusive Mattermost hoodie and stickers by making four pull requests between January 26, 2019 and February 28, 2019. …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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; …