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| Developer(s) | Rocket.Chat Technologies Corp |
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| Platform | Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux |
| Available in | JavaScript |
| Type | Instant messaging |
| License | M.I.T. |
| Website | rocket |
Rocket.chat is an open source team chat platform. [1]
History
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 2016 : Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year [12]
- 2017 : OW2 Consortium Best Project 2017: Innovation Award[14]
See Also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gilbertson, Scott (17 March 2016). "Slack smackback: There's no IRC in team (software), say open-sourcers". theregister.co.uk.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|website=(help) - ^ Novet, Jordan (27 Nov 2015). "5 open-source alternatives to Slack". VentureBeat.
- ^ Baker, Jason (24 Jun 2016). "4 open source alternatives to Slack for team chat". OpenSource.com.
- ^ Finley, Klint (16 Mar 2016). "Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack". Wired.
- ^ "Series A - Rocket.Chat". crunchbase.com'. 16 Mar 2016.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|website=(help) - ^ "Installing Rocket.Chat on Raspberry Pi 2". Volume Labs. 9 Feb 2016.
- ^ Jack Wallen, "How to install Rocket.Chat with Ubuntu Snap in 5 minutes". techrepublic.com. 25 October 2016.
- ^ Akita, Fabio (9 Aug 2016). "Moving away from Slack into Rocket.chat. Good Enough". AkitaOnRails.
- ^ "Rocket.Chat: Enabling Privately Hosted Chat Services". Black Duck. 14 Jun 2016.
- ^ Rouffineau, Thibaut (22 Sep 2016). "Rocket.chat, a new snap is landing on your Nextcloud Box and beyond". Ubuntu.
- ^ Conrad, Andrew (22 Sep 2016). "The Top 10 Slack Alternatives for Small Businesses". business2community.com.
- ^ "2015 Open Source Rookies of the Year". Black Duck. 14 March 2016.
- ^ Borck, James (21 Sep 2016). "Bossie Awards 2016: The best open source applications". InfoWorld.
- ^ Thomas, Cedric (4 Jul 2017). "OW2con'17 Best Project Awards Contest Results". OW2con.
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