malteo/mattermost-platform repository overview

⁠Mattermost

Mattermost is an open source, on-prem Slack-alternative.

It offers modern communication from behind your firewall, including messaging and file sharing across PCs and phones with archiving and instant search.

⁠All team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere

Please see the features pages of the Mattermost website⁠ for images and further description of the functionality listed below:

⁠Sharing Messaging and Files

• Send messages, comments, files and images across public, private and 1-1 channels
• Personalize notifications for unreads and mentions by channel and keyword
• Use #hashtags to tag and find messages, discussions and files

⁠Archiving and Search

• Import Slack user accounts and channel archives
• Search public and private channels for historical messages and comments
• View recent mentions of your name, username, nickname, and custom search terms

⁠Anywhere Access

• Use Mattermost from web-enabled PCs and phones
• Attach sound, video and image files from mobile devices
• Define team-specific branding and color themes across your devices

⁠Self-Host Ready

• Host and manage dozens of teams from a single Mattermost server
• Easily manage your Mattermost server using a web-based System Console
• Script setup and maintenance using Mattermost command line tools

⁠Learn More

• Product Vision and Target Audiences⁠ - What we're solving and for whom are we building
• Mattermost Forum⁠ - For technical questions and answers
• Troubleshooting Forum⁠ - For reporting bugs
• Issue Tracker⁠ - For reporting bugs
• Feature Ideas Forum⁠ - For sharing ideas for future versions
• Contribution Guidelines⁠ - For contributing code or feedback to the project

Follow us on Twitter at @MattermostHQ⁠, or talk to the core team on our daily builds server⁠ via this invite link⁠.

⁠Installing Mattermost

Latest stable release of Mattermost is available from http://www.mattermost.org/download/⁠, including binary distribution, and from install guides below.

If you use Docker, you can install Mattermost in a single-container preview in one line⁠.

⁠Quick Start Install for Product Evaluation

• Local Machine Install with Docker⁠ - Explore product functionality using a single-container Docker install on a local machine, including Mac OSX, Ubuntu, or Arch Linux). Optionally set up email and upgrade your instance using DockerHub.

• AWS EBS Install with Docker⁠ - Explore product functionality using a single-container Docker install for Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk. Optionally set up email and upgrade your instance using DockerHub.

⁠Development Install

• Developer Machine Setup⁠ - Setup your local machine development environment using Docker on Mac OSX or Ubuntu. Pull the latest stable release or pull the latest code from our development build.

⁠Production Deployment

Prior to production installation, please review Mattermost system requirements⁠.

• Production Install on Ubuntu 14.04⁠ - Install Mattermost for production environments.

• GitLab Mattermost Production Installation⁠ - Install Mattermost for production environments bundled with GitLab, a leading open source Git repository, using an omnibus package for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 7, Debian 8, and CentOS 6 (and RedHat/Oracle/Scientific Linux 6), CentOS 7 (and RedHat/Oracle/Scientific Linux 7).

For technical questions and answers, please visit the Troubleshooting Forum⁠.

⁠Get Involved with Mattermost

Joining the Mattermost community is a great way to build relationships with other talented and like-minded professionals, increase awareness of the interesting work you are doing, and sharpen your skills. Here are some of the ways that you can make a difference in the Mattermost ecosystem:

⁠Discuss

• Visit the Mattermost Forum⁠ for technical questions and answers.

⁠Review

• Share feedback on Mattermost Design Feedback Requests⁠, which offer early previews of designs community comments and feedback.
• Visit the Feature Ideas Forum⁠ and consider upvoting community feature ideas, which are reviewed for each monthly release.

⁠Share

• Blog about your Mattermost experiences and use cases, either on your personal blog, the Mattermost forum⁠, or contribute a guest post to the Mattermost blog⁠. If you write about Mattermost. please contact our community team at [email protected]⁠ for help promoting your content.
• Tweet to share with your community and friends why you use Mattermost. Follow @MattermostHQ⁠ on Twitter and conversations on #mattermost⁠.

⁠Write

• As with most open source projects, Mattermost documentation is maintained in a public repository. You can propose changes by submitting pull requests (no programming skills required)⁠. We highly welcome you to add improvements, write guides and tutorials, and expand on sections.
• Prior to contributing, please review Mattermost Documentation Guidelines⁠, which include standards on writing Mattermost documentation for a global audience, who might not use English as their first language.

⁠Contribute

• Share feature ideas⁠ with the Mattermost community
• Review the Mattermost Code Contribution Guidelines⁠ to submit patches for the core product
• Build community applications⁠ using Mattermost webhooks, drivers and APIs⁠
• Create new community installers and guides⁠ for Mattermost

⁠Check out some projects for connecting to Mattermost:

• Matterbridge⁠ - an IRC bridge connecting to Mattermost
• GitLab Integration Service for Mattermost⁠ - connecting GitLab to Mattermost via incoming webhooks
• Giphy Integration Service for Mattermost⁠ - connecting Mattermost to Giphy via outgoing webhooks
• node-mattermost⁠ - a node.js module for sending and receiving messages from Mattermost webhooks
• matterqus⁠ - Disqus comment notifier for Mattermost

⁠Have other ideas or suggestions?

If there’s some other way you’d like to contribute, please contact us at [email protected]⁠. We’d love to meet you!