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.
The Spec Core Team expects to release Matrix v1.17 next week with a few MSCs, along with some improvements to the spec website. Stay tuned for those!
Otherwise we're still working away at Matrix 2.0 MSCs - trying to keep them at the forefront while occasionally dipping into other MSCs. MSC4143: MatrixRTC, MSC4354: Sticky Events and MSC4186: Simplified Sliding Sync are the three currently being most actively worked on. The team appreciates your patience while the details are being hammered out.
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.
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!
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!
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 🙂
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.
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 🤞!
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.
We're looking for interesting questions around [matrix], its history, its technology, statistics and fun facts for The Matrix Unconference Pub [quizzz] !
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 conference@foundation.matrix.org to get a voucher for a free ticket 🤫)
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