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Michael @matrix / away in 🇯🇵 Japan until Jan, 19 says
Hi people, we (@bboett:matrix.org & @michaelmicheal:matrix.org) are doing a Stammtisch like meeting in Tokyo on 17th January 2026 @19:00 JST. We call it "Matrix Pop-up meeting Tokyo". All people around an interested to join please go to room #matrix-popup-tokyo:pwl.social
Thib announces
🔗Hackathon
We're excited that more than 50 people have signed up for our Hackathon before FOSDEM, including some seasoned developers who are willing to mentor newcomers. We're looking forward to meeting everyone there!
If your organisation wants to support the Matrix community for this event and get brand recognition for it, please reach out to [email protected] to sponsor the prizes, lunch, dinner, or drinks!
🕐️ Friday, 30th January, 09:00 - 17:00 CET (local time)
🏢 HSBXL, Rue Osseghem 53, 1080 Molenbeek
🎫 Free registration here
Join us in #fosdem-2026-hackathon:matrix.org to stay informed!🔗Booth
We'll have a booth for both FOSDEM days, on Sat. 31st Jan. and Sun. 1st Feb. We already have a solid team staffing the booth, but there are a few remaining slots if you want to lend us a hand and leave FOSDEM with a limited edition volunteer T-shirt! (Little birds told me this year the T-shirts would be Spezicolored!)
Find us in building AW!
🔗Devroom
We're coordinating the Decentralised Communications Devroom. We have a pretty cool line-up with focusing on T&S, Matrix, XMPP, ActivityPub, AT and more.
Joins us to get up to speed on what's happening in the decentralised communications world, and why not help cross-pollinate between projects 🐝
🕐️ Sunday, 1st February, 09:00 - 17:00 CET (local time) 🏢 Room AW1.126
HarHarLinks says
Only 2 weeks later we are back with a quick wrapup of recent activities on the website before the holidays.
- Jack S. has been supporting us greatly in shipping a million updates to all kinds of ecosystem projects as well as finding and fixing some smaller issues and contributions.
- We cleaned up the blog categories a bit, slowly working towards clearer definition of what goes where.
- salixh5 checked the status of and contributed an update to the LINE bridge during a Matrix Stammtisch.
- anoa updated our footer social media icons to include the Foundation's Bluesky profile.
- We have updated the homepage to fulfil the platinum membership perk.
- andybalaam contributed documentation on how to hide images by default using different Matrix clients via the T&S R&D WG.
- The T&S team announced policyserv, the SCT published Matrix v1.17, and the Events WG shared the latest news about the upcoming FOSDEM 2026.
- We greatly simplified the website contribution workflow by updating the PR template and introducing more automated checks via linters. More about that is on the horizon and looking for contributors!
- The effort to tag issues we are looking for help for continues. You can already find 30 to get involved with using the help wanted tag!
The website office hour is on holidays and will return in its regular slot on 8th January! In the meantime, you can still find us in the #matrix.org-website:matrix.org room and of course keep sending PRs! See you again at TWIM next year.
Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} says
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.
🔗MSC Status
New MSCs:
- MSC4388: Secure out-of-band channel for sign in with QR
- MSC4387:
M_SAFETYerror code- MSC4386: Automatically sharing secrets after device verification
MSCs in Final Comment Period:
- No MSCs are in FCP.
Accepted MSCs:
- No MSCs were accepted this week.
Closed MSCs:
- MSC4124: Simple Server Authorization
- Superseded by MSC4345: Server key identity and room membership.
- MSC4099: Participation based authorization for servers in the Matrix DAG
- Superseded by MSC4345: Server key identity and room membership.
- MSC3953: Server capability DAG
- Superseded by MSC4345: Server key identity and room membership.
- MSC4294: Ignore and mass ignore invites
- Superseded by MSC4155: Invite Filtering
🔗Spec Updates
The Spec Core Team expects to release Matrix v1.17 next week with a few MSCs, along with some improvements to the spec website. Stay tuned for those!
Otherwise we're still working away at Matrix 2.0 MSCs - trying to keep them at the forefront while occasionally dipping into other MSCs. MSC4143: MatrixRTC, MSC4354: Sticky Events and MSC4186: Simplified Sliding Sync are the three currently being most actively worked on. The team appreciates your patience while the details are being hammered out.
It's been a while since the last status update from the Website & Content WG if we disregard the recent upgrade to the TWIM room and bot, so we wanted to share a quick wrap-up of recent developments!
As you can see, there is a lot going on! If you're interested in getting involved, you can find us in the #matrix.org-website:matrix.org room, or of course grab an issue and send a PR! We also try to meet in a call regularly on Thursday afternoons, which we announce at #matrix.org-website:matrix.org.
Thib (m.org) says
In an effort to focus its resources where it can best serve the ecosystem, The Matrix.org Foundation is retiring its public Slack Bridge.
Find all the details on the dedicated blog post.
You can find the same video mirrored on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-75078-governing-board-transparency-update. All Conference content is available via the Conference website.
Amandine reports
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!
You can find the same video mirrored on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-81434-the-matrix-org-foundation-updates. All Conference content is available via the Conference website.
Sky reports
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!
If you’d like to give feedback or get involved, feel free to walk by in our #room-dir-wg-office:neko.dev.
The Governing Board is an advisory board to the Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.
Gwmngilfen announces
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 🙂
