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
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!
🥁 The Matrix.org Foundation has published its first Public Annual Report! 📊
This report gathers useful information for a very wide group of users, starting with the current community but also others who may not know Matrix very well. Overall, the goal is to remind everyone what the Foundation is and why it exists, share the progress in the last financial year, explain how our funds have been used, give an overview of our finances and eventually provide a preview of our plan for 2026.
You can find the blog here and the report itself here. We hope you will find it a useful read! ☕️
The first 'Matrix Stammtisch Köln' will take place on 25.03.2026 at 19:00.
We will be meeting on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, starting from 7 pm at the Chaos Computer Club Cologne, Heliosstraße 6A, 50825 Köln-Ehrenfeld. Anyone who would like to join us in person is welcome. Curious enough? If you can't make it this March, follow the #matrix-stammtisch:koeln.ccc.de room to stay updated. Tell your friends and bring them along!
Today we have announced The Matrix.org Foundation's first trademark policy. You can see all details in the announcement blog post and the policy itself. We have also improved the branding guidelines area of the website and have plans to continue building it out.
Huge thanks to the Website & Content Working Group for their support getting us here! Any questions/suggestions please head over to #matrix-legal:matrix.org or email us.
Join us in welcoming Pangea Chat as the latest Silver member of the Foundation! Pangea uses Matrix as the basis for their language learning via instant messaging app 🌍️ We love being part of an initiative spreading knowledge and build links between people 👏
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.
This week a number of MSCs were accepted. One notable entry is MSC4284: Policy Servers, which is a huge step forwards for moderation on Matrix.
In essence, while moderation is typically reactive in Matrix today - where someone posts spam and a bot catches it 5-10 seconds later - this MSC shifts it to be proactive. An event isn't sent into the room, or accepted by other homeservers, until it's run by a policy server.
And it doesn't stop there. Other MSCs are now building on top of policy servers to add more proactive moderation to Matrix. Hopefully the days of (briefly) seeing spam on Matrix is coming to a close. Huge thanks to the folks working to keep the public federation safe.
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