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

Learn More

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

Follow us on Twitter at @MattermostHQ.

Installing Mattermost

There are multiple ways to install Mattermost depending on your needs.

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 (for Beta2 and later)

Prior to production installation, please review Mattermost system requirements.

• 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 Mattermost 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.
• Join the Mattermost User Mailing List for general, open-ended questions and software announcements.
• Join the Mattermost Developers Mailing List for discussing contributing code to Mattermost.

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 info@mattermost.com 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
• Consider building tools that help developers and IT professionals manage Mattermost more effectively (API documentation coming in Beta2)

Have other ideas or suggestions?

If there’s some other way you’d like to contribute, please contact us at info@mattermost.com. We’d love to meet you!