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Adam O'Grady
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Adam O'Grady hails from the remote Perth, Western Australia, and can usually be found on Twitter at @adamjogrady or in meatspace wrangling with code. His first taste of programming came from building games into graphics calculators at high school, and quickly developed into a passion. A few years later, while doing social media marketing for an ISP, his first big break arrived; building custom applications to monitor and respond to social feeds. After that, he spent a few years working for the government building systems that used satellite and geographic data to spot and predict bushfires, and now you can find him leading a small team of engineering mavens at a local health start-up.
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Mattermost

One cool thing about self-hosted GitLab is that it contains everything necessary to run your own Mattermost server. What is Mattermost though? It's an open source, private chat server, similar to the commercially available Slack platform, but one that you can host yourself and have more control over. While chat servers sometimes get a bad rep in terms of productivity, they can also be fantastic for collaboration, especially for remote teams, and an excellent method of discussing topics that require more back-and-forth than an email but also need to be referred back to or searchable (unlike a phone call).

If you're running your own GitLab server, it's quite easy to enable the Mattermost service. Firstly, you'll need to have an extra domain pointed at your GitLab server. For example, if your GitLab server is reached at gitlab.example.com, you&apos...

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Adam O'Grady hails from the remote Perth, Western Australia, and can usually be found on Twitter at @adamjogrady or in meatspace wrangling with code. His first taste of programming came from building games into graphics calculators at high school, and quickly developed into a passion. A few years later, while doing social media marketing for an ISP, his first big break arrived; building custom applications to monitor and respond to social feeds. After that, he spent a few years working for the government building systems that used satellite and geographic data to spot and predict bushfires, and now you can find him leading a small team of engineering mavens at a local health start-up.
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