Google Summer of Code acceptees were announced, and we're really excited to have FIVE Matrix-related projects to look forward to!
Three of the students will be mentored by matrix.org folk, and two more will work on Fractal under the GNOME org.
Fractal Hackfest 2018 will take place next month in Strasbourg, hosted by Epitech. They'll be planning a roadmap for the year, and working on their current focus areas.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Fractal2018
After the blog post on matrix.org yesterday, lots of attention developed around the news. Take a look at this Hacker News thread with lots of discussion, which has stayed on the front page for nearly 24 hours, and a megathread on Reddit/r/linux: nearly 1000 upvotes and growing.
kitsune reports a new release of libqmatrixclient, v0.2.1, this is mostly a bugfix release, fully backwards-compatible with v0.2. Check out the release notes for details.
kitsune - https://github.com/QMatrixClient/libqmatrixclient - #qmatrixclient:matrix.org
Staying in QMatrix-land, there is a pre-release of Quaternion available. Take a look at v0.0.9, improvements include "redactions, file downloading, room creation and settings editing, better timeline visualisation and much more"!
kitsune - https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion - #qmatrixclient:matrix.org
f0x has been beavering away on neo, and has announced that Alpha 0.01 is available now. neo is a webclient in React, it feels really light and fast. I asked f0x about the uptick in work, and he mentioned he got started with React recently, but likes it a lot.
f0x - https://github.com/f0x52/neo/ - #neo_client:matrix.org
Fractal released 0.1.27 with many new features and bugfixes. Lot's going on but I'm most excited to see Markdown support land.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal - #fractal-gtk:matrix.org
Says TravisR: "I've whipped together a simple Trello notification bot for matrix: matrix-trello-bot. Future plans include the ability to create/update/delete cards and more granular control of what is notified about. Currently it acts very similar to how the Github notifications bot works."
TravisR - https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-trello-bot - #trellobot:t2bot.io
MTRNord is working on a "matrix DSL", basically a config file language that generates a project Template in multiple languages. The project is just now at the discussion stage, so join #matrix_dsl:matrix.ffslfl.net to check out what's going on. (DSL = Domain Specific Language.)
MTRNord - #matrix_dsl:matrix.ffslfl.net
Says Coffee: "urllib-requests-adapter has been updated to work with matrix-python-sdk 0.2.0. urllib-requests-adapter is a lightweight replacement for requests and its dependencies, currently standing at 126 SLOC."
Coffee - https://github.com/Matrixcoffee/urllib-requests-adapter
mxisd, the Identity Server from kamax, saw a v1.0.2 release, following the big one-point-zero last week. Changes include de-duplicated directory search results, plus bugfixes.
Max - https://github.com/kamax-io/mxisd
Missed this one last week, but matrix-stfu from xwiki is a message filtering tool released recently, it can "mass remove everything which was said by a particular user in a particular room". XWiki use matrix as their internal chat system for the ~30 people at the company.
xwiki - https://github.com/xwiki-labs/matrix-stfu - #xwiki:matrix.xwiki.com
There is a update out on try-matrix-now, matrix.org's central listing of projects. Try filtering and see whether benpa mangled the metadata for your project. Submit any changes as markdown PRs on the repo.
benpa is currently working on a Proposals page for the Spec to properly stack spec proposal status, at last!
uhoreg pointed to some charming coverage over on https://itsfoss.com: Riot: A Distributed Way of Having IRC and VOIP Client and Home Server, by Shirish. The article covers some details about riot-web and the open source ethos of Matrix, but my favourite quote by far:
"Without Matrix, Riot would be like a body without a soul."
Shirish - https://itsfoss.com/riot-desktop/
Half-Shot shared an article he wrote, Service notifs with Matrix, about using Matrix and Riot to deliver automated notifications to different types of end-user at his company.
Half-Shot - https://dev.to/halfshot/service-notifs-with-matrix-3fb5