Hackathon Pre-game Session: Lessons from Transitioning to Remote Work

Whether they’re waiting on offices to reopen or making a permanent move, many people are now navigating the challenges of working remotely. We’re kicking off Hacking from Home: Thriving in a Remote Environment with a deep dive into what it’s really like to make the leap to working remotely.

During this session, Mattermost’s Ali Farooq shares his experience transitioning to a remote work environment and chats with Jitsi founder Emil Ivov about what he wishes he had known before going remote, and what remote teams (and individuals) need to be successful in the long-term.

November 5th, 9:30am PT

Speakers:

Ali Farooq, Mattermost Community Member

Emil Ivov, Jitsi Founder & Project Lead

About Jitsi

Jitsi is a set of open source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet. 8×8 is the main contributor to the Jitsi open source projects, and the standalone and integrated versions of 8×8 Meet are powered by Jitsi. The Jitsi code has been hardened with over million of downloads and in applications like banking video conferencing, education as a service platforms, and home security applications globally.

About Mattermost, Inc.

Mattermost is an open source DevOps collaboration platform for team communication across mobile, web and PC with instant search, continuous archiving and unlimited integrations. Mattermost software is used by thousands of organizations around the world in 16 languages. Mattermost, Inc. helps solve collaboration challenges for developers, operators & security teams so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks.