This Week in Matrix

🔗Matrix Live S11E17 Element X Android gets a boost

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Website & Content WG Report (website)

It's been a while since the last status update from the Website & Content WG if we disregard the recent upgrade to the TWIM room and bot, so we wanted to share a quick wrap-up of recent developments!

• We continue to explore how to best and most effectively collaborate with the Foundation on publishing news, with the FOSDEM announcement by the Events WG following the newest suggested process with success!
• We have suggested to adopt an AI policy to the Foundation, and it was decided to adopt it on the website for now.
• In collaboration with the Room Directory WG, you can now find the form as well as further information about the room directory of the matrix.org homeserver on a dedicated page
• weeman has added TWIM to the website navbar, so you don't have to remember the shortlink anymore to get your news!
• vedant-vijay fixed an issue with the filters on the SDKs page
• Jack S. has spotted some bugs and opportunities to polish which we were glad to merge!
• We are maintaining the information about the Foundation, including it's members and are working with the Governing Board to keep its documentation up to date, as well as the Working Groups
• We have introduced a bunch of labels to the website issue tracker to help us sort tasks, and especially to point out some tasks that would be easy to implement even by external contributors
• We keep developing guidelines for ourselves to improve the consistency and professionality of the website step by step and of publications in general step by step, while also trying to keep an eye on making it as simple as possible to start contributing
• The #matrix.org-website:matrix.org room was upgraded and as part of that not only receives GitHub webhooks about activities on the matrix.org repo, but also the other repos required for the WG's daily work, including twim-config and the conference website repo
• Of course, we continue to publish TWIM every Friday 😉

As you can see, there is a lot going on! If you're interested in getting involved, you can find us in the #matrix.org-website:matrix.org room, or of course grab an issue and send a PR! We also try to meet in a call regularly on Thursday afternoons, which we announce at #matrix.org-website:matrix.org.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E16 – Connectivity Tester

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Retiring the Slack Bridge hosted on the matrix.org Homeserver

Thib (m.org) says

In an effort to focus its resources where it can best serve the ecosystem, The Matrix.org Foundation is retiring its public Slack Bridge.

Find all the details on the dedicated blog post.

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🔗The Matrix Conference 2025 - The Governing Board Transparency Update

You can find the same video mirrored on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-75078-governing-board-transparency-update. All Conference content is available via the Conference website.

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Luxchat Hackathon

Amandine reports

We're happy to announce that LU-CIX is joining the Foundation as a Silver Member! LU-CIX is the organisation delivering the Matrix-based Luxchat in collaboration with the Ministry of Digitalisation of Luxembourg and the Chamber of Commerce. Luxchat comes in three (interoperable) flavours:

• Luxchat4Gov for the public sector
• Luxchat4Pro for companies and organisations
• Luxchat, as a free messaging system for the general public and businesses, without advertising and without use of personal data, and respects the privacy of its users.

Earlier this week the three organisations also hosted a successful Matrix meets Luxchat Hackathon in presence of Madame Obertin, Minister of Digitalisation for Luxembourg!

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🔗The Matrix Conference 2025 - The Matrix.org Foundation Updates

You can find the same video mirrored on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-81434-the-matrix-org-foundation-updates. All Conference content is available via the Conference website.

🔗Dept of Working Groups 💪

Sky reports

Cutting the ribbon on the reopened matrix.org room directory!

Back in early September, the room directory working group started an initial beta test run. For the first time in months, it was possible again to get new rooms into the directory.

Since then, we’ve reworked the multiple forms into one universal one to make things easier for users. We also identified several pain points in the process and validated that our imagined workflow actually works in practice. There are still improvements we’re actively working on, but we’re already happy with the current stage.

There is now a dedicated subpage for the room directory on the matrix.org homepage —you can find it here— where users can easily access all relevant info. Please share it around!

If you’d like to give feedback or get involved, feel free to walk by in our #room-dir-wg-office:neko.dev.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E15 – Figma but based on Matrix?

🔗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

Howdy folks, your friendly GB here - I've been a bit quiet recently, but we wanted to let you all know that the latest 6-monthly Board meeting happened this week! Lots to cover, Working Group updates, challenges, plans for upcoming work, and so on - so you can expect a report out in the near future on that! Stay tuned 🙂

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🔗Matrix Live S11E14 – MSC Crafter, MAS Personal Tokens

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Amandine reports

Robin is sadly moving on at the end of November, see A fond farewell from Managing Director Robin Riley. I will be covering as acting MD while we recruit someone else. A job description is incoming, but please get in touch at [email protected] if you're interested.

Amandine announces

This week we're welcoming Liberbyte as a Silver member of the Foundation! Liberbyte uses Matrix as data exchange layer between organisations to provide transparent and controlled access to global data exchanges and markets. Welcome and thank you for your support! 👏

Does your community or organisation use Matrix? Do you maintain an open source project that builds on Matrix? Join these organisations in demonstrating their support and apply to become a member today.

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🔗Matrix Conference 2025 - The Matrix State of the Union

Alternatively you can find it on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-74977-the-matrix-state-of-the-union.

🔗Matrix Conference Recordings

Beyond the Matrix State of The Union you can also find all of the Matrix Conference recordings at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5dnxRMP1hUgnYEbpEsEEhIqY_KlO3NG.

They are also available on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/c/matrix-conf-2025.

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗DINUM joins The Matrix.org Foundation

Amandine says

🇫🇷 Very excited to announce that DINUM, the French Interministerial Digital Directorate, is joining The Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member and becomes the first government to join the Foundation! 🚀

Matrix is the backbone of Tchap, the secure messaging app for the French government, and it is great to see a State stepping up to concretely support and collaborate with an open source project so critical to their functioning.

💡 We hope this will show the way to all the other public sector organisations using Matrix, especially after we kicked off a Matrix for Public Sector group at the Matrix Conference last week, hopefully soon approved by the Governing Board as an official Working Group 🤞!

➡️ check out the announcement blog!

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🔗Dept of Social Good 🙆

Denise announces

Element has joined other European organisations in an open letter to European leaders on the latest developments regarding Chat Control.

We are concerned that the Danish Presidency’s current proposal on the Regulation for Child Sexual Abuse could introduce backdoors and client-side scanning, creating risks for security, innovation and digital sovereignty in Europe.

We urge European leaders to ensure that any approach protects encryption, privacy, and the trust that underpins Europe’s digital ecosystem.

https://element.io/blog/element-signs-chat-control-open-letter/

🔗Dept of Pub Quiz 🍻

The one with the braid (she/her) ⚡ reports

We're looking for interesting questions around [matrix], its history, its technology, statistics and fun facts for The Matrix Unconference Pub [quizzz] !

Do you have suggestions ? Please share them with the conference team in the following form : https://forms.gle/6tbry4Zdzb1fYVfx5 or contact us at #events-wg:matrix.org

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🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗The Matrix Conference

Thib (m.org) announces

The Matrix Conference is almost here, and we couldn't be more excited! It's the final sprint to get all ducks in a row, but everything is aligning well.

We're looking forward to having a relaxed Barcamp and and welcome party at Le Météor, with drinks and Flammeküeche courtesy of Rocket.Chat and Element, followed by three full days of talks and workshops.

Don't miss out on the conference, grab your tickets (and if you're an individual member, you can shoot us an email at [email protected] to get a voucher for a free ticket 🤫)

🗓️ October 15 to 18
🗺️ Kaleidoscoop, Strasbourg, France
🤩 Look at that impressive line-up
🎟️ Grab your tickets before we run out!

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🔗Matrix Live S11E13 Sticky Events, Encrypted State and Element Admin

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗matrix.org Website

HarHarLinks reports

2 weeks after the last update at the Website & Content Working Group we have some new updates worth mentioning:

The new ecosystem page listing distributions has landed! We consider a Matrix distribution a collection of software related to Matrix that is deployed and automatically configured so the different pieces integrate with one another. Click the link to find some examples!

In organisational news, you may have noticed the Working Group is not just called "Website", but "Website & Content". This is because the WG is not only responsible for making sure the website works on a technical level, but also maintaining its content. Of course this also includes making sure that any contributions to the website are as good as they can reasonably be. One of our first big topics behind the scenes was thus the creation of the Review & Publishing Policy to try and set a bar we think we can meet, and as well as expectations that Working Group and contributors may assume of each other. The Governing Board has recommended to the Foundation to approve this policy, and it is now added to our repository's CONTRIBUTING.md alongside the already existing guidelines! Next step: set up GitHub to support as much of this as possible with automation.

Of course that's only the big news. For the rest, check our commitlog or follow the Hookshot announcements in our public room #matrix.org-website:matrix.org!

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