A reminder that patches for the coordinated security release of Matrix server implementations will go out this Monday, August 11th 2025 at 17:00 UTC. If you run your own homeserver, please be ready to update around that time to receive security patches!
Last week we were excited to announce two new Working Groups! Huge thanks to Nico who is acting as the Governing Board sponsor for both the Trust & Safety Research & Development Working Group and the Room Directory Working Group. You can learn more about both as well as the existing Events Working Group and Website & Content Working Group on the website at https://matrix.org/foundation/working-groups/!
Feedback form getting these new Working Groups set up helped us at the Governing Board identify some parts in our bylaws and processes documents that were a bit more difficult to grasp. The Governance Committee of the Governing Board is responsible for improving both the Governing Board's own as well as the Foundations processes and has been working in parallel to fill the gaps: You can read the new description about what the tasks of Working Group Chairs are at https://matrix.org/foundation/governing-board/bylaws/02-bylaws/#working-group-chairs-and-vice-chairs-expectations. Tl;dr: if you really care about something getting done, then being the chair is your role for ensuring progress keeps getting made.
By the time you read this, you should be able to find documentation about the Trust and Safety working groups doing Research and Documentation as well as planning to support maintaining the matrix.org room directory on the working groups page.
If those interest you and you want to help out, feel free to join their public offices and introduce yourself! Sorry it took so long to set up and it will take a while longer until you see some output from those groups, but we are slowly organizing ourselves!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 nomination period for this years's governing board electionsends 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.
