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Mattermost

Mattermost is an open-source collaboration platform for secure team communication, project coordination, and workflow integration. It is built for technical and operational teams that need reliable, self-hosted, and customizable collaboration infrastructure.

github.com/mattermost/mattermostmattermost.com/

Maintainer

Mohammed Zubair Ahmed

Senior Software Design Engineer

How to support

Open issues or contribute to open help wanted issues

A small brief about your project

Mattermost is an open-source collaboration platform focused on secure communication, operational reliability, and extensibility. It helps teams collaborate through messaging, integrations, and workflows while giving them control over their deployment and data.

One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self

Maintaining is not just about writing code. Good communication, reviewing consistently, and documentation matter just as much as shipping features.

Why do you do it? Why do you bother maintaining a FOSS project?

I started my developer journey through open source. I learned more about software engineering from open source than from any professional course, so maintaining and contributing is my way of giving back to the community that shaped me.

If your repo had a theme song, what would it be?

Don't have one

Which file in your project would you most like to set on fire?

Virtualized lists and a few outdated but critically dependent libraries.

What's your open-source villain origin story?

Don't have one

If you had to use one emoji to convey what it is like to be a FOSS maintainer, what would it be?

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