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rocket.chat
Open source communications platform for the AI age
Open source team chat and communications platform Rocket.Chat is one of the largest active open source (permissive MIT license) nodeJS communications platform communities on GitHub, connecting 2,500+ global community contributors (across projects) from 30+ countries, with 41,700+ GitHub stars, 11,100 forks, 1,005+ total releases and 15,100+ issues since inception in 2015. Rocket.Chat is a team chat platform written in full-stack Typescript. It offers a fully featured team chat experience on modern browsers, comparable to Slack and Microsoft Teams. Mobile and desktop clients run on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux. The server can scale from a small family messaging server for 5 users on a Raspberry Pi 5, to clustered micro-services configuration that can support hundred thousands of users. On-premises Rocket.Chat can ensure 100% complete security and privacy of your valuable communications/data. Rocket.Chat is now installed on over 500k servers and counts over 12m users worldwide. Federated communication support extends our reach exponentially. Users can set up Rocket.Chat on cloud or by hosting their own servers on-premises. Thanks to its extension support via Rocket.Chat …
- javascript
- typescript
- node
- LLM
- generative ai
- communications
- messaging
- group chat
- Team Collaboration
- Chat platform
Project ideas
20 ideas on its 2026 ideas page. Sizes: 5 small, 12 medium.
- 💡 High-Performance Message Parser Rewrite medium
- 💡 AI Rocket.Chat Apps Generator small
- 💡 Refactor Virtualized Lists to Use TanStack Virtual medium
- 💡 Rocket.Chat Code Analyzer: agentic inference context reduction mechanics medium
- 💡 Embedded Chat 2026
- 💡 Replace old Rest Api definitions over the new API
- 💡 OpenClaw Integration for Rocket.Chat
- 💡 Minimal MCP Server Generator for Rocket.Chat medium
- 💡 AI Generated Regression Test Suite for Desktop (Electron) App small
- 💡 Mobile Apps: Notifications Improvements medium
- 💡 Custom mentions medium
- 💡 Activity Hub medium
- 💡 Desktop App: Multiple Conversation Tabs small
- 💡 Agenda Jobs Admin Page medium
- 💡 Personal Calendar medium
- 💡 Rebuilding the Jira Integration App for Rocket.Chat small
- 💡 Apps Engine Test Framework for Apps medium
- 💡 Warning and Reporting for Login Attempts from Inactive or Deactivated Users medium
- 💡 Room Header Buttons Ordering small
- 💡 New Users Anti Spammer System medium
Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.
History
In GSoC since 2017, 10 years. Projects per year: '17: 4, '18: 7, '19: 15, '20: 7, '21: 12, '22: 12, '23: 10, '24: 17, '25: 19, '26: 10.
On GitHub
80 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: TypeScript (48), Go (9), JavaScript (5), Shell (4), Python (3), HTML (2).
Links and channels
- Website: https://github.com/RocketChat
- Ideas page: https://github.com/RocketChat/google-summer-of-code/blob/main/google-summer-of-code-2026.md#-project-ideas
- Contributor guide: https://github.com/RocketChat/google-summer-of-code/blob/main/google-summer-of-code-2026.md#how-to-apply
- Source code: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
- Chat: https://open.rocket.chat/channel/opensource2026
- Mailing list: https://forums.rocket.chat/t/welcome-to-google-summer-of-code-2026-with-rocket-chat/22692
- Email: gsoc+2026@rocket.chat
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