Working Groups
The Working Groups are a collection of groups that are formed to work on specific tasks or projects that are important to the Matrix ecosystem. The Working Groups are made up of members from the Matrix ecosystem and are overseen by the Governing Board.
If you are interested in joining a Working Group, simply reach out to it via the contact details listed below. You can learn more about how Working Groups work, how to propose new Working Groups, and more in the Bylaws of the Governing Board.
Website and Content Community Committee
Editoral and technical oversight of the main websites and socials
Members: Thib, HarHarLinks, MTRNord
Sponsor: HarHarLinks
The website and content working group is responsible for the editorial and technical oversight of the main Matrix websites and social media channels. This includes the main matrix.org website, conference website, and the various social media channels. The group is responsible for ensuring that the websites are up to date, accurate, and reflect the current state of the Matrix ecosystem. It also includes preparing and publishing the weekly This Week in Matrix news digest. The group is not responsible for domain-specific content of other teams like the spec website, matrix.org Homeserver related configurations or the legal and security sections of the website.
Note that this is not the complete list of responsibilities, but a high level overview.
Events Community Committee
Organising the Foundation's official events and appearances at conferences
Members: Yan, Nadine, Thib, Robin, HarHarLinks, The one with the braid
Sponsor: HarHarLinks
The Events working group is the main organising team of the official events hosted by the Foundation, such as the Matrix Conference or co-hosting FOSDEM Fringe, as well as official appearances at other conferences, e.g. the FOSDEM booth and devroom. The WG also acts as first contact point for similar community endeavours, e.g. inquiries related to the Matrix Community Summit, or the FrOSCon Matrix Community devroom, and tries to foster an ecosystem of decentralised events and user groups.
Trust & Safety Research & Documentation Trust & Safety Committee
Documenting and Researching the state of Trust and Safety in the ecosystem
Members: Nico, Cat, Niko, SFaulken, Gnuxie
Sponsor: Nico
To make appropriate decisions, the T&S committee needs to know about the state of T&S in the wider ecosystem. It needs to have insights into current challenges, solutions and initiatives. On the other hand the community can also benefit from having some of that information documented. The T&S R&D WG is a tool to help with that. It includes a wider set of individuals and reports their research results to the T&S committee. The WG is also encouraged to enhance the documentation on the Matrix.org website to help communities and users on Matrix moderate their rooms. The T&S committee might sometimes ask the WG for help in researching specific topics in more detail to guide their decisions.
Room Directory Trust & Safety Committee
Help maintain the room directory on the matrix.org homeserver
Members: Nico, Sky
Sponsor: Nico
The purpose of the room directory working group is to implement the matrix.org room directory policy, as described in that policy.
Additionally the working group might propose improvements to the policy, which the T&S committee will then vote on.