This Week in Matrix

🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

🔗Governing Board Elections (website)

Amandine announces

📢 Calling all the Foundation members! The clock is ticking! ⏰ There is only one week left to nominate yourself (or another member of your group) as a candidate to represent your constituency group on the Governing Board.

The election is running for the following constituency groups:

• Platinum Members (1 seat)
• Ecosystem Members (3 seats)
• Spec Core Team (2 seats)
• Guardians (3 seats)
• Silver Members (2 seats)
• Individual Members (1 seat, note that only members donating at least $60 a year are eligible for election)
• Associate Members (1 seat)
• Gold Members (if new Gold member(s) sign up before the 15th May)

Find all the details about the nomination process here. Nominees will be announced on the 16th May and displayed on the election page.

📅 As a reminder, this year’s schedule is as follows:

• ✅ 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

Nico says

We may have some insights into the inner workings of the Governing Board early next week. No promises yet, but maybe check back on Tuesday, if we managed to post anything! If you have been wondering what you even would do as a Governing Board member, maybe this is the thing that will help you figure that out!

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Continuwuity as a New Ecosystem Member

Amandine says

This week we're announcing Continuwuity as a new Ecosystem member to the Foundation! Continuwuity is a community driven Rust homeserver focusing on user experience and new features. Welcome!

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to The Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Amandine reports

🗳️ 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:

• ✅ 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!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E07 - Element Demos

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to the Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Gwmngilfen announces

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

Thanks!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E06 – Foundation Updates

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix Community Summit 2026 (website)

HarHarLinks says

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.

• sign up for a (free) ticket or help cover the breakfast cost by sponsoring at https://tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2026/
• order mind-blowing merch nownownow! - since that is produced by order only - at https://tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2026/
• send proposals to the CfP at https://openki.matrix-community.events/ and declare your interest in existing sessions
• join the chat/space #matrix-community-summit-berlin-2026:datanauten.de
• join the orga at #mcs26-orga:datanauten.de
• spread the word!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E05 – Smooth room upgrades and better notifications in Trixnity

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib announces

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!

We want to hear from

• Individuals
• Organisations
• Authors of toys & hacks
• Contributors to sovereignty
• You!

Send your proposals!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E04 – Matrix DMs in Bluesky

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib reports

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!

Our Call for Proposals is open, and we want to hear from you!

We're looking for proposals from:

• Individuals innovating around Matrix
• Organisations working with Matrix in any context
• Authors of toy projects, hacks, and experiments worth sharing
• Anyone contributing to digital sovereignty
• You!

Read the full announcement here, and we're looking forward to seeing you in person in October 🥳

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🔗Matrix Live S12E03 – How hard can it be?

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Amandine reports

🥁 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! ☕️

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🔗Matrix Live S12E02 – Matrix Community Events

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗MSC26 CFP Reminder (2 months 2 go)

Yan 't' Minagawa reports

As promised in Matrix Live (see above): Here are some relevant links for the matrix community summit!

Participate in MCS26: 21th-25th of May at c-base, get your tickets, and join our space and read last weeks announcement.

🔗Matrix community is growing with "Matrix Stammtisch Köln"

Michael @matrix says

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!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E01 – Updates from Matthew & Amandine

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Trademark Policy

Denise announces

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.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E24 – URL Previews, and Pushing Secrets

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Pangea Chat as a new Silver member!

Amandine announces

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 👏

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