Thib

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} says

Here's your weekly spec update! The heart of Matrix is the specification - and this is modified by Matrix Spec Change (MSC) proposals. Learn more about how the process works at https://spec.matrix.org/proposals.

🔗MSC Status

New MSCs:

• MSC4303: Disallowing non-compliant user IDs in rooms

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• No MSCs were accepted this week.

Closed MSCs:

• MSC4276: Soft unfailure for self redactions
  • Closed in favour of alternative approaches to the problem.

🔗Spec Updates

Not too much to say this week other than some small progress on existing MSCs.

A PR for defining the process for placeholder MSCs is close to merging, for those that are interested in process!

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🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

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

Robin Riley says

Our second annual Governing Board election has come to a close! Huge thanks to all the candidates and voters. We're extremely grateful to everyone who served in the precedent-setting first cohort that we elected last year.

Special thanks to outgoing representatives Cleo Menezes Jr., Kevin Boos, Sumner Evans, and Thor Arne Johansen, congratulations to the incumbents who were re-elected, and welcome to our new incoming representatives, Christian Kußowski and Gnuxie! Find more info on our blog.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E02 – Introducing Premium Accounts on Matrix.org

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Thib reports

Earlier Today, the Matrix.org Foundation announced its plans to introduce Premium Accounts to fund the matrix.org homeserver. This requires little to no change for client developers.

The full announcement is at https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/funding-homeserver-premium/

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🔗Matrix Live S11E01 - Introducing Project Aurora

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Matthew reports

The EU adopted the European Commission's proposal today for cybersecurity crisis management - which proposes Matrix for cross-EU communication: "On this basis, Union-level actors should use solutions based on the Matrix protocol for real-time communication". https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-takes-step-further-cybersecurity-crisis-management

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🔗Matrix Live S10E24 - Matrix Conference, WASM rust-sdk, Element RoomList and more!

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Robin Riley (m.org) says

Meet the nominees for the Governing Board and swing by the election rooms to ask questions and get to know them better. Huge thanks to all of the nominees for stepping up to serve the community! Voting begins on May 31st.

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The Matrix.org Foundation is happy to announce that the Matrix Conference 2025 will be held at Kaleidoscoop in Strasbourg, France, from October 15 to 18!

Last year the Conference was completely sold out, with more than 200 decision makers, experts and enthusiasts joining us for this very first edition! The rooms were so full, and we had such a long waiting list that we've decided to extend our capacity this year to 300 attendees, with flexibility for more.

We would like to thank our Anchor Sponsor Element for their dedication to the Matrix ecosystem and to the success of the Conference! Thank you, Element, for enabling us to make the Conference happen!

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🔗Matrix Live S10E24 – Tauri, Admin bot, HackDays, and European Collaboration on Matrix

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix Conference 2025

Thib (m.org) reports

We are excited to announce that The Matrix Conference will happen in Strasbourg from October 15 to 18! Following last year's success, we bumped our capacity to accept more than 300 attendees this year.

• 🗣️ The Call for Proposals is now open until June 6
• 🤝 We have sponsorship packages ready for organizations interested in getting the right eyes on their products
• 🎟️ We expect to open registrations in the coming weeks
• 🌐 You can find all the information about the conference on https://2025.matrix.org

The Events Working Group and the Foundation at large are looking forward to meeting you in the flesh this year again!

🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

HarHarLinks announces

The nomination period for this years's governing board elections ends tonight (UTC)! If you're an Individual, Silver, Gold, or Associate member, submit your nomination here!

Tomorrow (UTC), the 2 week campaigning period begins officially, but you are already allowed to campaign, for example in the official Governing Board campaigning rooms.

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🔗Matrix Live

Migrating millions of matrixers to MAS

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Quentin Gliech says

🔗Matrix.org now uses MAS!

On Monday this week, the backend team at Element successfully migrated Matrix.org to use matrix-authentication-service (MAS).
This happened right after the core MSCs for next-generation auth got merged into the Matrix spec!

After a full week of running MAS on Matrix.org, we're happy to call the migration a great success! 🕺

This means Matrix.org users now have a new home to manage their accounts: account.matrix.org

You can read more about the migration on the Matrix.org blog:
👉 Matrix.org is now running MAS!
...and what it means for Element users on the Element blog:
👉 MAS migration unleashes Element X on Matrix.org

We're still ironing out a few bugs, so if you’ve experienced any issues related to the migration, let us know in #matrix-auth:matrix.org!

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🔗Matrix Live

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Robin Riley (m.org) reports

The Matrix.org Foundation is proud to join likeminded organisations in endorsing the United Nations Open Source Principles, a set of guidelines to promote collaboration and adoption of open source around the globe.

Robin Riley (m.org) says

Please join me in welcoming the newest Silver Member of the Matrix.org Foundation: SSH Communications Security! We're grateful to SSH for stepping up to support the Foundation's mission and stewardship of the Matrix protocol.

Does your organization rely on Matrix? We're working hard to close our budget gap, and we need your help. Join the Foundation to ensure Matrix has robust stewardship well into the future.

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🔗Matrix Live

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Trust and Safety Research and Documentation Working Group

Nico announces

As part of my work for the Trust and Safety Committee I am trying to establish a working group to help with researching and documenting the state of T&S across the ecosystem. If that sounds interesting to you, please poke your head into #governing-board-office:matrix.org and tell us!

To summarize what the group is about, the current proposal looks like this:

To make appropriate decisions, the T&S committee needs to know about the state of T&S in the wider ecosystem. It needs to have insights into current challenges, solutions and initiatives. On the other hand the community can also benefit from having some of that information documented. The T&S R&D WG is a tool to help with that. It includes a wider set of individuals and reports their research results to the T&S committee. In some cases the WG is also encouraged to enhance the documentation on matrix.org to help communities and users on Matrix moderate their rooms. The T&S committee might sometimes ask the WG for help in researching specific topics in more detail to guide their decisions.

🔗Pledge of Confidentiality

The WG will sometimes have to deal or come in contact with confidential data, possibly because of legal reasons, possibly because of active abuse concerns. While the WG is encouraged to be open, there will be times where the WG should keep certain information confidential and only share it with specific individuals. As the WG we pledge to keep information confidential when necessary while still being transparent and open where possible. The T&S committee may decide to remove members from the WG if it sees a member abusing their access to information or not acting in a trustworthy manner by sharing information the group agreed to keep confidential. This should be a last resort, needs a majority in the T&S committee and should be preceded by appropriate communication and warnings.

🔗Typical Tasks

• Gather information about current moderation challenges on Matrix and keep structured notes about them
• Maintain an overview of available moderation tools and their capabilities
• Create and maintain moderation guides on matrix.org in collaboration with the Website or Documentation WGs
• Reach out to moderators to gather feedback or offer advice
• Reports insights and opinions to the T&S committee and possibly other T&S working groups
• Potentially collaborate on proposals with the T&S committee or other WGs
• Turn some of their research into MSCs and collaboratively push them to completion as well as advise on other MSCs from a T&S perspective

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