🗳️ The Governing Board election season has officially started!
We announced it last week in a very detailed blog post summarising everything you need to know, and kicked off the nomination period on Saturday. You can find all the details about the nomination process here, but in short each member of a constituency group can nominate themselves, a representative or someone else to be a candidate for the election. Nominees will be announced on the 16th May and displayed on the election page.
📅 This year’s schedule is as follow:
âś… Announcement on Monday 27th April
➡️ Nominations from Saturday 2nd May to Friday 15th May
◻️ Campaigning from Saturday 16th May to Friday 29th May
◻️ Voting from Saturday 30th May to Friday 12th June
◻️ Results announced on Monday 15th June
📢 The election is running for the following constituency groups:
Platinum Members – 1 seat (in cycle)
Ecosystem Members – 3 seats (in cycle)
Spec Core Team – 2 seats (in cycle)
Guardians – 3 seats (in cycle)
Silver Members – 2 seats (out of cycle, GB members stepped down)
Individual Members – 1 seat (out of cycle, GB member stepped down)
Associate Members – 1 seat (out of cycle, seat left empty during the last elections)
Gold Members – if new Gold member(s) sign up before the 15th May
So if you are a member of one of these groups have a think about whether you can support the Foundation and don’t hesitate to put your name in the ballot!
As a reminder, the full election schedule is as follows:
âś… Announcement on Monday 27th April
➡️ Nominations from Saturday 2nd May to Friday 15th May
◻️ Campaigning from Saturday 16th May to Friday 29th May
◻️ Voting from Saturday 30th May to Friday 12th June
◻️ Results announced on Monday 15th June
The Governing Board
of the Foundation is a key player in the governance of Matrix:
it allows
representatives of every stakeholder of the ecosystem
to have a stronger involvement in how the project is managed
with both an advisory role to the Guardians, Foundation staff, and Spec Core Team,
as well as a participatory one, via the Committees and Working Groups.
It is a great opportunity
for those who wish to be a bit more involved in the project to have more impact,
whilst also representing their constituency.
Today we kick off the third Governing Board election round,
starting with a two week nomination period that opens on
Saturday, 2nd May and closes on Friday, 15th May.
Hello folks, it's time for another board report! Another 6 months have passed (well, slightly less to align better with the elections), and the Board came together last week to go over the Committee reports and discuss urgent topics. You can find the details, and my conclusions, in the blog post, and of course we welcome feedback, questions, etc which you can direct to #governing-board-office:matrix.org
For those new to the Board's activities, you can find out more about our structure, Committees, and Working Groups on the Matrix website - and as always I'll take any chance to remind the community that new Working Group proposals are always welcome, just get in touch
Following a packed first half of the year, the Board came together last week
for it's first-half Board meeting. A lot has been going on - in the world, in
software, and in Matrix, and it's clear things are not slowing down. So what
have we been discussing?
A big strength of Matrix is its popularity among IT hobbyists. These people discover and adopt the chat ecosystem early and often advocate for its introduction at their university, workplace and in their groups of friends. In order to bring these innovators and tinkerers together, a group called Matrix Community Events has been founded by passionate individuals.
In-person events are an important part of the Matrix community in Europe. The annual conferences FOSDEM, FrOSCon and the Chaos Communication Congress are some events where many of our community members meet. These events allow us to exchange ideas across organisations, find new members on our quest to popularise Matrix and consolidate efforts on projects and spec proposals. To focus solely on Matrix, dedicated Matrix events take place, like meetups, workations (group trips combining work and vacation) and the annual Matrix Community Summit in Berlin.
Matrix Community Summit is a yearly meetup around pentecost by the community for the community, where Matrix hackers, developers, and visionaries meet on the c-base space station under Berlin for multiple days to collaborate on Matrix. This year it starts on Thursday 21st May and ends on Monday 25th May. If some of that is during your work hours, do not worry! It is the same for us, which is why co-working is part of the concept. For the first time, we will also have both a rooftop experience and a pan-galactic gargleblaster contest.
Heads-up that The Matrix Conference 2026 will be in Malmö, Sweden, on Tuesday, 20th to Thursday, 22nd October. It will be followed by a hackathon day on Friday, 23rd October!
We will start with a networking event on the 20th afternoon, followed by a welcoming party.
We will follow by two core days of conference on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd October, including two talk tracks and two workshop rooms.
Finally, we will conclude with a post-conference hackathon on Friday 23rd October.
Our Call for Proposals is open until 14th June. We already received solid proposals, and we're looking forward to seeing what you will send us!
It was an open secret, but it's finally out in the open: we will gather for The Matrix Conference 2026 between 20th and 23rd October in Malmö, Sweden!
