Rocket.chat
Rocket.chat is an open source team chat platform. [1]
Contents
History
Rocket.chat was open sourced on 24th May 2015.[2] Prior to that, it was developed as a closed source product part of Konecty.[3] programming language and published to GitHub. It was founded by Gabriel Engel an open source project.[4]
In October 2016 Rocket.Chat raised $5,000,000 Series A funding from Harry Weller and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).[5]
Features
Rocket.Chat serves as an Internet of Things (IoT) application and it runs well on small IoT devices, including the Raspberry Pi Zero.[6][7] It also works with multiple services including GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, Dolphin and Confluence.[8] The platform allows chat, file sharing, video conferencing, helpdesk and voice messaging services.[9][10][11]
Awards
- 2016 : Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year [12]
- 2017 : OW2 Consortium Best Project 2017: Innovation Award[14]
See Also
References
- ↑ Gilbertson, Scott (17 March 2016). "Slack smackback: There's no IRC in team (software), say open-sourcers". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/no_slack_for_open_sourcers/.
- ↑ Novet, Jordan (27 Nov 2015). "5 open-source alternatives to Slack". http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/27/5-open-source-alternatives-to-slack/.
- ↑ Baker, Jason (24 Jun 2016). "4 open source alternatives to Slack for team chat". https://opensource.com/alternatives/slack.
- ↑ Finley, Klint (16 Mar 2016). "Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack". https://www.wired.com/2016/03/open-source-devs-racing-build-better-versions-slack/.
- ↑ "Series A - Rocket.Chat". 16 Mar 2016. https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/rocket-chat-series-a--679b247f.
- ↑ "Installing Rocket.Chat on Raspberry Pi 2". 9 Feb 2016. https://volumelabs.net/2016/02/09/rocket-chat-raspberry-pi-2/.
- ↑ Jack Wallen, "How to install Rocket.Chat with Ubuntu Snap in 5 minutes". 25 October 2016. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-quickly-install-rocket-chat-with-ubuntu-snap/.
- ↑ Akita, Fabio (9 Aug 2016). "Moving away from Slack into Rocket.chat. Good Enough". http://www.akitaonrails.com/2016/08/09/moving-away-from-slack-into-rocket-chat-good-enough.
- ↑ "Rocket.Chat: Enabling Privately Hosted Chat Services". 14 Jun 2016. http://blog.blackducksoftware.com/rocket-chat-enabling-privately-hosted-chat-services.
- ↑ Rouffineau, Thibaut (22 Sep 2016). "Rocket.chat, a new snap is landing on your Nextcloud Box and beyond". https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/09/22/rocket-chat-a-new-snap-is-landing-on-your-nextcloud-box-and-beyond/.
- ↑ Conrad, Andrew (22 Sep 2016). "The Top 10 Slack Alternatives for Small Businesses". https://www.business2community.com/small-business/the-top-10-slack-alternatives-for-small-businesses-02087348.
- ↑ "2015 Open Source Rookies of the Year". 14 March 2016. https://info.blackducksoftware.com/OpenSourceRookies2015.html#RocketChat.
- ↑ Borck, James (21 Sep 2016). "Bossie Awards 2016: The best open source applications". http://www.infoworld.com/article/3122000/open-source-tools/bossie-awards-2016-the-best-open-source-applications.html#slide4.
- ↑ Thomas, Cedric (4 Jul 2017). "OW2con'17 Best Project Awards Contest Results". https://www.ow2con.org/bin/view/2017/Awards_Results?year=2017&event=OW2con17.
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