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Mattermost

Communication Verified
Ian Tien, Corey Hulen 2015 Vancouver, British Columbia MIT v10.x

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations. Designed as an alternative to Slack, it was founded by a Canadian-led team and is widely used by enterprises and governments for secure communications.

#chat #messaging #collaboration #self-hosted
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Pidgin

Communication Verified
Mark Spencer, Canadian community contributions 1997 Various, National GPL-2.0 v2.14.x

Pidgin is a free and open-source multi-protocol instant messaging client. Canadian open-source developers have long been contributors to Pidgin and its underlying libpurple library, which supports dozens of chat protocols.

#messaging #IM #chat #communication
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Matrix Synapse

Communication
International open-source community Various, International AGPL-3.0

A federated homeserver for the Matrix open communication protocol.

#messaging #federation #chat #server
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Element Web

Communication
International open-source community Various, International AGPL-3.0

A web client for secure, decentralized Matrix messaging and collaboration.

#messaging #matrix #chat #collaboration
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Zulip

Communication
International open-source community Various, International Apache-2.0

A team chat system that organizes conversations by topic within streams.

#chat #team #messaging #collaboration
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Rocket.Chat

Communication
International open-source community Various, International MIT

A self-hosted communications platform for chat, voice, video, and customer engagement.

#chat #messaging #collaboration #self-hosted
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