Category Atom Feed
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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!
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/
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
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!
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!
Robin Riley (m.org) says
This week we're delighted to welcome a new Associate Member to the Foundation: the Moonlight Institute!
Does your community or nonprofit use Matrix, or advocate for free and open source software, interoperability, privacy, or decentralisation? Join us for free as an Associate Member to show your support and participate in the open governance of Matrix.
Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} reports
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:
- MSC4360 Sliding Sync threads extension
- MSC4359: "Do not Disturb" notification settings
- MSC4358: Out of room server discovery
- MSC4357: Live Messages via Event Replacement
- MSC4356: Recently used emoji
- MSC4354: Sticky Events
- MSC4353: Per-origin linear chain
- MSC4352: Customizable HTTPS permalink base URLs via server discovery
- MSC4351: Odd Context Limits
MSCs in Final Comment Period:
- No MSCs are in FCP.
Accepted MSCs:
- No MSCs were accepted this week.
Closed MSCs:
- No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.
