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 [email protected] to get a voucher for a free ticket 🤫)
2 weeks after the last update at the Website & Content Working Group we have some new updates worth mentioning:
The new ecosystem page listing distributions has landed!
We consider a Matrix distribution a collection of software related to Matrix that is deployed and automatically configured so the different pieces integrate with one another. Click the link to find some examples!
In organisational news, you may have noticed the Working Group is not just called "Website", but "Website & Content". This is because the WG is not only responsible for making sure the website works on a technical level, but also maintaining its content. Of course this also includes making sure that any contributions to the website are as good as they can reasonably be. One of our first big topics behind the scenes was thus the creation of the Review & Publishing Policy to try and set a bar we think we can meet, and as well as expectations that Working Group and contributors may assume of each other. The Governing Board has recommended to the Foundation to approve this policy, and it is now added to our repository's CONTRIBUTING.md alongside the already existing guidelines!
Next step: set up GitHub to support as much of this as possible with automation.
Of course that's only the big news. For the rest, check our commitlog or follow the Hookshot announcements in our public room #matrix.org-website:matrix.org!
This week we're delighted to welcome a new Associate Member to the Foundation: the Moonlight Institute!
Does your community or nonprofit use Matrix, or advocate for free and open source software, interoperability, privacy, or decentralisation? Join us for free as an Associate Member to show your support and participate in the open governance of Matrix.
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.
Hi all, we here at Element Towers recently ran a two day hackathon called “How Hard Can It Be?”. The idea being to try out a bunch of ideas that we’ve been noodling on. At the end of the event we ran a demos session and we thought we’d share the video with you.
This is the first time we’ve run an event like this, but it certainly won’t be the last. I’ve also been talking with Yan about the idea of expanding it to be Matrix wide, so anyone can get involved. Watch this space.
Disclaimer: Don't get too excited, it was just a two day hackathon, so everything you see is very much at the poc stage. Though, we may pick a few up in the coming months and ship for real.
Super exciting to see the European Commission soft-launch their first official Matrix Server (https://mathstodon.xyz/@Pol/115173504011566267), powered by Element Server Suite. Watch this space for more info :D
This week I'm excited to share some quick transparency update from the Governing Board. Together with the Website & Content Working Group, we have updated the Governing Board area of the matrix.org homepage, adding more info about the Governing Board's current Committees! We have mentioned the Committees before and named them on the website. The Committee names are mostly speaking for themselves, but one of the goals in open governance is transparency, not guessing. 😉 So we have just added a new subpage at https://matrix.org/foundation/governing-board/committees/ where you can now find each Committee's charter, members, and meeting schedule.
We have also tweaked the main Governing Board page, restructuring the info about the elected representatives and chairs visually to be easier to grasp in the context of Foundation member constituencies and Committees respectively. Give it a whirl, and as always hit us with any questions about the Governing Board over at the #governing-board-office:matrix.org!
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