Mattermost Holiday Hackfest 2016

Jason Blais

December 9, 2016

Community

Win an exclusive Mattermost shirt by making four pull requests between December 8th, 2016 and January 8th, 2017.

Pull requests can be made to any issues with a “Hackfest” label in Mattermost-hosted GitHub repositories.

Best contribution also wins a special prize! See below for more details.

Here’s who’s leading the Holiday Hackfest:

Featured Projects

Platform

Open source Slack-alternative server in Golang and React

Desktop

Mattermost Desktop applications for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Docs

Documentation for Mattermost (hosted at docs.mattermost.com)

API Reference

API documentation for Mattermost (hosted at api.mattermost.com)

What You Need To Know

Event Details

To win an exclusive Mattermost shirt, submit four pull requests between December 8th, 2016 and January 8th, 2017 and have them merged by January 13th 4:00 PM San Francisco Time.

Best contribution also wins a special prize!

Pull requests can be made to any issues with a “Hackfest” label in Mattermost-hosted GitHub repositories.

Those reported by maintainers as incomplete, invalid or spammy are not counted towards the shirt.

You’re welcome to submit a pull request for small improvements without a “Hackfest” label. For feature ideas, read how to contribute.

Resources

Contribution guidelines – to help guide you through the process of submitting a pull request

Developer’s guide – to help new contributors, particularly with machine setup and developer workflow

Mattermost community channel – to meet other contributors and the Mattermost team

Mattermost developers channel – to ask for technical questions and advice

Mattermost 2016 Hacktoberfest – to read about the Hacktoberfest event hosted by DigitalOcean in October, 2016

More About Mattermost

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