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🔗Matrix Live - A Federated Data Marketplace

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to The Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Amandine announces

🗳️ Election notice!

And that’s a wrap for this 2026 Governing Board election season! 🏁

We are super excited to announce our new and re-elected Governing Board members: congratulations all, and welcome!

Representatives of the Ecosystem members

• Kim Brose (Matrix Community Events)
• Nico Werner (Nheko-Reborn)
• Jade Ellis (Continuwuity)

Representative of the Platinum member

• Neil Johnson (Element Creations)

Representatives of the Spec Core team

• Alexey Rusakov
• Richard van der Hoff

Representatives of the Guardians

• Matthew Hodgson
• Ross Schulman

Representatives of the Individual members

• Max
• Mathieu Velten

Representatives of the Silver members

• Yoan Pintas (DINUM)
• Niklas Zender (Famedly)

We will also welcome a new Governing Board member who joined as a replacement of his ex-colleague at Automattic: (single Gold member): Nick Mills-Barrett!

Also a huge thank you to all of those who will be leaving the board, your support was greatly appreciated.

Check out the details on our blog

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🔗Matrix Live - Matrix over DMLS

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Last Weekend to Submit a Talk to Matrix Conf

Thib announces

That's right, the CfP closes on Sunday, 14th June... that means in two days as of publishing 😱

If you want to submit a talk, now's the time!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E11 - Relay, macOS client

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Re-opening Conference Merch Pre-Orders

Thib announces

By popular demand: we have reopened the pre-orders for the conference merch, since we managed to push back the production deadline with our partner!

You now have until the end of July to pre-order your hoodie, T-shirt, beanie, and socks on the Conference Store

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🔗Matrix Live S12E09 – Element Demos

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to The Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Amandine says

🗳️ Election notice!

🚥 Only a few hours left before kick-off! The voting for the Governing Board election is starting tonight, and is open until the 12 June. All eligible voters should keep an eye out for an email from OpaVote.

Check out our blog post and election page for details and links to the candidates lists.

📅 This year’s schedule is as follows:
✅ Announcement on Monday 27th April
✅ Nominations from Saturday 2nd May to Friday 15th May
✅ Campaigning from Saturday 16th May to Friday 29th May
➡️ Voting from Saturday 30th May to Friday 12th June
◻️ Results announced on Monday 15th June

📢 The election is running for the following constituency groups:

• Platinum Members – 1 seat (in cycle)
• Ecosystem Members – 3 seats (in cycle)
• Spec Core Team – 2 seats (in cycle)
• Guardians – 3 seats (in cycle)
• Silver Members – 2 seats (out of cycle, GB members stepped down)
• Individual Members – 1 seat (out of cycle, GB member stepped down)

So if you are a member of one of these groups keep an eye out for your voting email or get in touch if you haven't received it by Monday!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E08 The Matrix Governing Board Elections!

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Amandine announces

Happy to welcome connect2x as a new Silver member of the Foundation this week! 🚀 Benedict and the connect2x team have been active members of the community for a while, in particular with Tammy and Trixinity, but connect2x is also a strong provider of TI-Messenger solutions in the German healthcare ecosystem. Thank you for your support!

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib (m.org) reports

One month left!

There's only one month left to send your talk proposals for The Matrix Conference.

But another deadline is looming, even sooner: there's only two weeks left to get a discounted Early Bird ticket, and to secure merch for you size! Early Bird tickets have a 20% discount, so don't wait too long and grab yours!

Individual members should also have received their voucher for a free ticket! We'll send the vouchers for organizational members shortly.

Find all the details of the conference on https://conference.matrix.org/

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to The Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Amandine reports

🗳️ The Governing Board election season has officially started!

We announced it last week in a very detailed blog post summarising everything you need to know, and kicked off the nomination period on Saturday. You can find all the details about the nomination process here, but in short each member of a constituency group can nominate themselves, a representative or someone else to be a candidate for the election. Nominees will be announced on the 16th May and displayed on the election page.

📅 This year’s schedule is as follow:

• ✅ Announcement on Monday 27th April
• ➡️ Nominations from Saturday 2nd May to Friday 15th May
• ◻️ Campaigning from Saturday 16th May to Friday 29th May
• ◻️ Voting from Saturday 30th May to Friday 12th June
• ◻️ Results announced on Monday 15th June

📢 The election is running for the following constituency groups:

• Platinum Members – 1 seat (in cycle)
• Ecosystem Members – 3 seats (in cycle)
• Spec Core Team – 2 seats (in cycle)
• Guardians – 3 seats (in cycle)
• Silver Members – 2 seats (out of cycle, GB members stepped down)
• Individual Members – 1 seat (out of cycle, GB member stepped down)
• Associate Members – 1 seat (out of cycle, seat left empty during the last elections)
• Gold Members – if new Gold member(s) sign up before the 15th May

So if you are a member of one of these groups have a think about whether you can support the Foundation and don’t hesitate to put your name in the ballot!

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As announced previously, The Matrix Conference is set to take place in Malmö, Sweden, in October 2026.

While the Call for Proposals is still open until the end of June, we are happy to announce that you can buy a ticket for the Conference right now!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E07 - Element Demos

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to the Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Gwmngilfen announces

Hello folks, it's time for another board report! Another 6 months have passed (well, slightly less to align better with the elections), and the Board came together last week to go over the Committee reports and discuss urgent topics. You can find the details, and my conclusions, in the blog post, and of course we welcome feedback, questions, etc which you can direct to #governing-board-office:matrix.org

For those new to the Board's activities, you can find out more about our structure, Committees, and Working Groups on the Matrix website - and as always I'll take any chance to remind the community that new Working Group proposals are always welcome, just get in touch

Thanks!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E05 – Smooth room upgrades and better notifications in Trixnity

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib announces

Heads-up that The Matrix Conference 2026 will be in Malmö, Sweden, on Tuesday, 20th to Thursday, 22nd October. It will be followed by a hackathon day on Friday, 23rd October!

We will start with a networking event on the 20th afternoon, followed by a welcoming party. We will follow by two core days of conference on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd October, including two talk tracks and two workshop rooms. Finally, we will conclude with a post-conference hackathon on Friday 23rd October.

Our Call for Proposals is open until 14th June. We already received solid proposals, and we're looking forward to seeing what you will send us!

We want to hear from

• Individuals
• Organisations
• Authors of toys & hacks
• Contributors to sovereignty
• You!

Send your proposals!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E04 – Matrix DMs in Bluesky

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib reports

It was an open secret, but it's finally out in the open: we will gather for The Matrix Conference 2026 between 20th and 23rd October in Malmö, Sweden!

Our Call for Proposals is open, and we want to hear from you!

We're looking for proposals from:

• Individuals innovating around Matrix
• Organisations working with Matrix in any context
• Authors of toy projects, hacks, and experiments worth sharing
• Anyone contributing to digital sovereignty
• You!

Read the full announcement here, and we're looking forward to seeing you in person in October 🥳

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