Teams Will Compete Virtually In Support of Remote Workers from November 10-17, 2020
8×8, Inc. (NYSE: EGHT), a leading integrated cloud communications platform, today announced a joint hackathon hosted by Jitsi and Mattermost to tackle communication, collaboration, and engagement challenges facing remote workers around the world.
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.@jitsinews and @Mattermost Team Up for Joint Hackathon about “Thriving in a Remote Environment” via @8×8
The virtual hackathon, Hacking from Home: Thriving in a remote environment, will take place November 10-17, 2020. Jitsi, the 8×8-sponsored open source Video as a Service programmable application, and Mattermost, the open source messaging platform for DevOps, will host the competition.
COVID-19 has impacted nearly every industry, shifting many jobs to remote and requiring students, educators, employees and entrepreneurs to work from home. The goal of this hackathon is to create new solutions that optimize remote work for everyone, while delivering the speed, transparency, trust and security of open source software.
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Sample challenges for participants include helping in-office and remote employees navigate hybrid work environments, reducing isolation through social interaction, and streamlining operations and processes through new approaches to company handbooks.
Teams from around the world will compete virtually using Jitsi for voice and video conferencing and Mattermost for messaging with integration across both platforms supporting seamless collaboration within teams.
“Demand for the trust, transparency and security of open-source video meetings technology has skyrocketed as businesses, organizations, educators and students around the world shift to working remotely,” said Emil Ivov, Jitsi founder and head of video collaboration at 8×8, Inc. “We’re proud to be joining forces with open-source platform Mattermost for this global hackathon. Together, our open-source community will tackle some of the biggest long-term challenges of remote work.”
“Open source contributions have always been integral to the success of Mattermost,” said Mattermost co-founder and CTO Corey Hulen, “Hackathons like this give us the opportunity to celebrate our community’s contributions while challenging them to think creatively about the future of remote collaboration.”
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