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The Top Mission-Critical Collaboration Articles of 2025
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The Top Mission-Critical Collaboration Articles of 2025

Ashley Dotterweich
Hacktoberfest 2024: Nearly 175 community contributions from folks all over the world
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Hacktoberfest 2024: Nearly 175 community contributions from folks all over the world

Hanna Park
Unveiling the future of our bug bounty program
community

Unveiling the future of our bug bounty program

Eva Sarafianou
Hacktoberfest 2024: Contribute, connect & collect digital rewards!
community

Hacktoberfest 2024: Contribute, connect & collect digital rewards!

Andrew Zigler
Join forces with Mattermost on cybersecurity
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Join forces with Mattermost on cybersecurity

Andrew Zigler
Leveraging AI for community moderation: A tale of two assistants
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Leveraging AI for community moderation: A tale of two assistants

Emily Dela Cruz
Bringing open source tech enthusiasts together with pizza
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Bringing open source tech enthusiasts together with pizza

Andrew Zigler
Hacktoberfest 2023: Incredible community contributions, digital rewards & a healthier planet
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Hacktoberfest 2023: Incredible community contributions, digital rewards & a healthier planet

Andrew Zigler
Inc. recognizes Mattermost as a ‘Power Partner’
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Inc. recognizes Mattermost as a ‘Power Partner’

Justin Reynolds
Hacktoberfest 2023: Celebrate open source, make an impact on the planet
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Hacktoberfest 2023: Celebrate open source, make an impact on the planet

Andrew Zigler
Connecting nonprofit organizations to open source software
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Connecting nonprofit organizations to open source software

Hanna Park
Mattermost Wants to Buy Pizza for Your Meetup Group
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Mattermost Wants to Buy Pizza for Your Meetup Group

Andrew Zigler
Community Spotlight: Mattermost ChatGPT bot by Sebastian Müller
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Community Spotlight: Mattermost ChatGPT bot by Sebastian Müller

Andrew Zigler
Mattermost wins ‘best innovation in communication and messaging’ in DeveloperWeek DEVIES Awards
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Mattermost wins ‘best innovation in communication and messaging’ in DeveloperWeek DEVIES Awards

Ashley Dotterweich
What Matters to You? Introducing Our New User Feature Idea Portal
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What Matters to You? Introducing Our New User Feature Idea Portal

Katie Wiersgalla
Hacktoberfest is here again!
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Hacktoberfest is here again!

Ben Pearson
Want to make your mark on Mattermost? Join our QA Testing community!
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Want to make your mark on Mattermost? Join our QA Testing community!

Lindy Isherwood
What Matters Episode 33: Getting to Know Auth with Dan Moore
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What Matters Episode 33: Getting to Know Auth with Dan Moore

Ashley Dotterweich
community

Open Source Defeats a Patent Troll, GitHub’s ReadME Project, and More: Open Source Matters

Ben Pearson
Open Source Hacktivism, Open Source Gains Traction in the Enterprise, and More: Open Source Matters
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Open Source Hacktivism, Open Source Gains Traction in the Enterprise, and More: Open Source Matters

Ben Pearson
What Matters Episode 32: Creating a DevOps Pipeline with CircleCI's Angel Rivera
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What Matters Episode 32: Creating a DevOps Pipeline with CircleCI's Angel Rivera

Ashley Dotterweich
Mattermost's QA Contributor Community is Growing!
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Mattermost's QA Contributor Community is Growing!

Lindy Isherwood
What Matters, Episode 31: Infrastructure as Clouds with Kat Cosgrove
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What Matters, Episode 31: Infrastructure as Clouds with Kat Cosgrove

Ashley Dotterweich
The March 2022 Build
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The March 2022 Build

Ashley Dotterweich
Mattermost policy changes due to conflict in Ukraine
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Mattermost policy changes due to conflict in Ukraine

Ian Tien
The February 2022 Build
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The February 2022 Build

Ashley Dotterweich
The White House Shines a Light on Open Source Security and More: Open Source Matters
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The White House Shines a Light on Open Source Security and More: Open Source Matters

Ben Pearson
What Matters, Episode 30: Rocket to Community with Chris DeMars
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What Matters, Episode 30: Rocket to Community with Chris DeMars

PJ Hagerty
Get Paid to Write About Mattermost Playbooks
community

Get Paid to Write About Mattermost Playbooks

Ben Pearson
Introducing The Build: A Newsletter for Software Engineers
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Introducing The Build: A Newsletter for Software Engineers

Ashley Dotterweich
What Matters Roundup: 5 Favorite Episodes from 2021
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What Matters Roundup: 5 Favorite Episodes from 2021

Justin Reynolds
The 2021 Mattermost Community Awards
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The 2021 Mattermost Community Awards

Ben Pearson
Join the Mattermost Desktop App Contributor Event
community

Join the Mattermost Desktop App Contributor Event

Ben Pearson
What Matters, Episode 29: Head in the Clouds with James D. Bohrman
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What Matters, Episode 29: Head in the Clouds with James D. Bohrman

PJ Hagerty
$10M Funding for OpenSSF, Using AI to Innovate 3D Printing, and More Open Source News – Open Source Matters
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$10M Funding for OpenSSF, Using AI to Innovate 3D Printing, and More Open Source News – Open Source Matters

Ben Pearson
What Matters, Episode 28: Accessing Accessibility
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What Matters, Episode 28: Accessing Accessibility

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 27: Mattermost v6.0!
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What Matters, Episode 27: Mattermost v6.0!

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 26: Getting into React Native with Elias Nahum
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What Matters, Episode 26: Getting into React Native with Elias Nahum

PJ Hagerty
Join Us For Hacktoberfest 2021
community

Join Us For Hacktoberfest 2021

Ben Pearson
Announcing the Mattermost Community Writing Program
community

Announcing the Mattermost Community Writing Program

Ben Pearson
What Matters, Episode 25: Musings and Motivation with Zef Hemel
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What Matters, Episode 25: Musings and Motivation with Zef Hemel

PJ Hagerty
community

Mattermost on the road: Where to catch us for the rest of 2021

PJ Hagerty
GitHub’s New Legal Support For Developers, and Loads of New Open Source Projects – Open Source Matters
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GitHub’s New Legal Support For Developers, and Loads of New Open Source Projects – Open Source Matters

Ben Pearson
Highlights from the first-ever Mattermost Docathon
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Highlights from the first-ever Mattermost Docathon

Carrie Warner
What Matters, Episode 24: Open Source, Safety & Maintainer Blues with Penelope Phippen
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What Matters, Episode 24: Open Source, Safety & Maintainer Blues with Penelope Phippen

PJ Hagerty
Join the Mattermost Mobile app beta program
community

Join the Mattermost Mobile app beta program

Eric Sethna
Maintainers Need Your Support,  Microsoft Further Embraces Linux, and more: Open Source Matters
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Maintainers Need Your Support, Microsoft Further Embraces Linux, and more: Open Source Matters

Ben Pearson
What Matters, Episode 23: Docathon 2021 with Carrie Warner
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What Matters, Episode 23: Docathon 2021 with Carrie Warner

PJ Hagerty
Securing XML implementations across the web
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Securing XML implementations across the web

Juho Forsén
What Matters, Episode 22: Finding Your Path with Bryan Liles
community

What Matters, Episode 22: Finding Your Path with Bryan Liles

PJ Hagerty
Join Us for our First Mattermost ‘Docathon'
community

Join Us for our First Mattermost ‘Docathon'

Carrie Warner
What Matters, Episode 21: Special VR MatterCon Edition
community

What Matters, Episode 21: Special VR MatterCon Edition

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 20: Equalithons with Marie Roker-Jones
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What Matters, Episode 20: Equalithons with Marie Roker-Jones

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 19: Head to the Marketplace with Aaron Rothschild
community

What Matters, Episode 19: Head to the Marketplace with Aaron Rothschild

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 18: Meet the Focalboard Team with Chen Lim and Jesús Espino
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What Matters, Episode 18: Meet the Focalboard Team with Chen Lim and Jesús Espino

PJ Hagerty
community

Join the Mattermost Desktop app beta program

Eric Sethna
What Matters, Episode 17: Chat and Emotions with Craig Tucker
community

What Matters, Episode 17: Chat and Emotions with Craig Tucker

PJ Hagerty
The Mattermost E2E Cypress Test Automation Hackfest 2021 kicks off on May 3rd!
community

The Mattermost E2E Cypress Test Automation Hackfest 2021 kicks off on May 3rd!

Praptishrestha
What Matters, Episode 16: Remotely Successful with Eamon Leonard
community

What Matters, Episode 16: Remotely Successful with Eamon Leonard

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 15: Open Source Fridays with Joram Wilander
community

What Matters, Episode 15: Open Source Fridays with Joram Wilander

PJ Hagerty
How We’ve Built an Open Source Community at Mattermost
community

How We’ve Built an Open Source Community at Mattermost

Ian Tien
Introducing Open Source Fridays
community

Introducing Open Source Fridays

Joram Wilander
What Matters, Episode 14: The Open Source Fantastic Four with Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz
community

What Matters, Episode 14: The Open Source Fantastic Four with Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz

PJ Hagerty
The Mattermost server repo surpasses 20,000 stars on GitHub
community

The Mattermost server repo surpasses 20,000 stars on GitHub

PJ Hagerty
Happy International Women’s Day from Mattermost!
community

Happy International Women’s Day from Mattermost!

Hanna Park
What Matters, Episode 13: Go and Going to the Community with Gautam Rege
community

What Matters, Episode 13: Go and Going to the Community with Gautam Rege

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 12: Rocky Linux with Jordan Pisaniello
community

What Matters, Episode 12: Rocky Linux with Jordan Pisaniello

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 11: Community Chat with Emily Cook
community

What Matters, Episode 11: Community Chat with Emily Cook

PJ Hagerty
Mattermost survey reveals remote work is here to stay
community

Mattermost survey reveals remote work is here to stay

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 10: Open Source & COVID-19 with Tom De Moor
community

What Matters, Episode 10: Open Source & COVID-19 with Tom De Moor

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 9: Remotely Remote with Corey Hulen
community

What Matters, Episode 9: Remotely Remote with Corey Hulen

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 8: Checking out Cloud with Maria Nunez
community

What Matters, Episode 8: Checking out Cloud with Maria Nunez

PJ Hagerty
What Matters, Episode 7 Reacting to ReactJS with Mike Hartington of Ionic
community

What Matters, Episode 7 Reacting to ReactJS with Mike Hartington of Ionic

PJ Hagerty
What Matters: Responding to Incidents with Quintessence Anx of PagerDuty
community

What Matters: Responding to Incidents with Quintessence Anx of PagerDuty

PJ Hagerty
Keeping CERN scientists around the world securely connected with Mattermost
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Keeping CERN scientists around the world securely connected with Mattermost

Justin Reynolds
community

Hacktoberfest 2020 was Mattermost’s biggest Hacktoberfest ever

PJ Hagerty
What Matters: Integrating Workflows with Tanay Pant of n8n.io
community

What Matters: Integrating Workflows with Tanay Pant of n8n.io

PJ Hagerty
It’s time for the Hacking from Home hackathon!
community

It’s time for the Hacking from Home hackathon!

PJ Hagerty
Announcing What Matters: A podcast from the folks at Mattermost
community

Announcing What Matters: A podcast from the folks at Mattermost

PJ Hagerty
Rounding out 2020: Mattermost Community Events
community

Rounding out 2020: Mattermost Community Events

PJ Hagerty
Mattermost launches Quality Assurance (QA) Contributor Program!
community

Mattermost launches Quality Assurance (QA) Contributor Program!

Lindy Isherwood
Hacktoberfest: Join the largest open source contributor event this October
community

Hacktoberfest: Join the largest open source contributor event this October

Jason Blais
Mattermost and Jitsi launch a joint hackathon
community

Mattermost and Jitsi launch a joint hackathon

Jason Blais
Mattermost-Jitsi: Open source, self-hosted alternatives to Zoom and Slack
community

Mattermost-Jitsi: Open source, self-hosted alternatives to Zoom and Slack

Ian Tien
Get paid to write open source software working from home
community

Get paid to write open source software working from home

Ashley Dotterweich
Mattermost cribs: Home office edition
community

Mattermost cribs: Home office edition

Hanna Park
The Mattermost codebase is preserved on ice for the next 1,000 years
community

The Mattermost codebase is preserved on ice for the next 1,000 years

Jasondeland
Mattermost launches Mattermost Superstars program for contributors
community

Mattermost launches Mattermost Superstars program for contributors

Jason Blais
Top 7 missteps of the Mattermost open source project
community

Top 7 missteps of the Mattermost open source project

Christopher
My open source contributor journey with Mattermost
community

My open source contributor journey with Mattermost

Siyuan
Building confidence and gaining experience with good open source projects
community

Building confidence and gaining experience with good open source projects

Allanguwatudde
Advanced Git with the Free University of Tbilisi
community

Advanced Git with the Free University of Tbilisi

Jesse Hallam
Mattermost localization: 700,000 translations, hundreds of contributors
community

Mattermost localization: 700,000 translations, hundreds of contributors

Jason Blais
Mattermost participates in Google Season of Docs 2019
community

Mattermost participates in Google Season of Docs 2019

Justinegeffen
Phillip Ahereza and Allan Guwatudde win Mattermost Bot Hackfest with DigitalOcean Plugin
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Phillip Ahereza and Allan Guwatudde win Mattermost Bot Hackfest with DigitalOcean Plugin

Jason Blais
MatterCon 2020 highlights the power of a remote community
community

MatterCon 2020 highlights the power of a remote community

Jason Blais
#VenceAlVirus: A virtual hackathon that aims to help overcome the challenges of COVID-19
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#VenceAlVirus: A virtual hackathon that aims to help overcome the challenges of COVID-19

Lauren Nguyen
Going to MatterCon as a Mattermost contributor
community

Going to MatterCon as a Mattermost contributor

Yusukenemoto
Mattermost Statement on COVID-19
community

Mattermost Statement on COVID-19

Ian Tien
Localizing Matterpoll
community

Localizing Matterpoll

Hanzei
Highlights from the spectacular Mattermost Hackathon
community

Highlights from the spectacular Mattermost Hackathon

Jason Blais
A humble and sincere ‘thank you' to our open source community
community

A humble and sincere ‘thank you' to our open source community

Katie Wiersgalla
Hacktoberfest returns! Contribute to open source projects and win free swag
community

Hacktoberfest returns! Contribute to open source projects and win free swag

Jason Blais
Mattermost Joins Google’s Inaugural Season of Docs Program
community

Mattermost Joins Google’s Inaugural Season of Docs Program

Katie Wiersgalla
William Gathoye wins Mattermost Hackfest 2019!
community

William Gathoye wins Mattermost Hackfest 2019!

Eric Sethna
Why we love customer reviews  at Mattermost
community

Why we love customer reviews at Mattermost

Mattermost
Mattermost Hackfest 2019 is underway!
community

Mattermost Hackfest 2019 is underway!

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

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

Corey Hulen
Mattermost Named a Cool Vendor in Employee Engagement and Enablement in the Digital Workplace by Gartner
community

Mattermost Named a Cool Vendor in Employee Engagement and Enablement in the Digital Workplace by Gartner

Rich
Insights from our incredible plugin hackathon
community

Insights from our incredible plugin hackathon

Corey Hulen
Building a stronger open source community for our contributors at Mattermost
community

Building a stronger open source community for our contributors at Mattermost

Jason Blais
The secret to thousands of contributions to the Mattermost open source project
community

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

Jason Blais
MatterCon 2018 Community Meetup Highlights
community

MatterCon 2018 Community Meetup Highlights

Corey Hulen
MatterCon 2018 Hackathon Highlights
community

MatterCon 2018 Hackathon Highlights

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

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

Ian Tien
Open Source 100: George Goldberg, Mattermost Core Committer
community

Open Source 100: George Goldberg, Mattermost Core Committer

Amy Blais
Carlos Panato wins Mattermost 2017 Hacktoberfest award
community

Carlos Panato wins Mattermost 2017 Hacktoberfest award

Amy Blais
Hacktoberfest is back! Win a free t-shirt by contributing to Mattermost
community

Hacktoberfest is back! Win a free t-shirt by contributing to Mattermost

Amy Blais
HPE and Mattermost offer private cloud Slack-alternative for Enterprise ChatOps
community

HPE and Mattermost offer private cloud Slack-alternative for Enterprise ChatOps

Amy Blais
Galois releases Matterhorn, an open source Terminal Client for Mattermost
community

Galois releases Matterhorn, an open source Terminal Client for Mattermost

Jason Blais
community

Mattermost moves to monthly releases

Jason Blais
Mattermost December 2016 Update: Holiday Hackfest, Tuleap, Xen Orchestra & Homebrew integrations, upcoming January release
community

Mattermost December 2016 Update: Holiday Hackfest, Tuleap, Xen Orchestra & Homebrew integrations, upcoming January release

Jason Blais
Mattermost Holiday Hackfest 2016
community

Mattermost Holiday Hackfest 2016

Jason Blais
Minio project wins Mattermost 2016 Hacktoberfest Award
community

Minio project wins Mattermost 2016 Hacktoberfest Award

Jason Blais
700 app integrations with Markdown support via Zapier
community

700 app integrations with Markdown support via Zapier

Jason Blais
Mattermost 3.4 offers 700 integrations with Markdown support via Zapier
community

Mattermost 3.4 offers 700 integrations with Markdown support via Zapier

Lindsay Brock
200,000 translations and counting…
community

200,000 translations and counting…

Ian Tien
Meet the Creator: Puppet Module for Mattermost
community

Meet the Creator: Puppet Module for Mattermost

Ian Tien
An invitation for contributions
community

An invitation for contributions

Ian Tien
Documentation Guidelines
community

Documentation Guidelines

Ian Tien

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