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Events WG

Charter

Purpose

The Events Working Group is an outreach arm of The Matrix Foundation. It 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.

Typical Tasks

  • issue CfP, curation of talks, schedule building, pretalx
  • call for volunteers to staff events, shift assignment
  • merch
    • official merch available for sale/giveaway at event
    • stickers available for giveaway
    • event-specific, e.g. team shirts
  • design input
  • promotion & marketing, sponsoring, ticketing, pretix
  • coordinate video recording, podcasting, etc.
  • support community events
    • Foundation-sponsored merch/stickers
    • helpful hints how we handle running an event
    • handling infrastructure support e.g. acting as financial entity
  • keeping tabs on all events globally that might be relevant
    • for our own events to not collide with them
    • to potentially participate in the future
    • their CfPs etc
  • develop/maintain tooling/docs for running events on Matrix (pretix bot, FOSDEM widget, …)
  • maintain a knowledgebase at https://handbook.matrix.org/
  • make Matrix attractive to get invited to events

Members

Yan, Nadine, Thib, HarHarLinks, The one with the braid, Dominik

Sponsor: HarHarLinks

Contact

Chat Email

Activities

Meetups & Conferences Space

The Meetups & Conferences Space is maintained by the Events WG as a place for community members to find real life events about Matrix and connect to others in the Matrix ecosystem.

The space contains rooms for various local meetups, rooms for Matrix meetups / groups at other events, as well as Matrix Community Events like the Matrix Community Summit or events organized by The Matrix Foundation such as The Matrix Conference.

If you have an event you're organizing and want listed in the space, you should know the following:

Policy

  • The room is on topic, i.e. it officially represents an event which is concerned with Matrix itself as topic, or unofficially, however clearly stating so.
  • We only add one room or space per event.
  • The room is actively moderated:
    • It ideally has more than 1 human moderator.
    • Spam is removed within reasonable time. Automated tooling should be used, please reach out if you have questions about that.
    • Moderators are responsive to the WG and Foundation staff's requests.
  • The room admins/owners agree to have the room listed in the space.

Process & Decision making

Please reach out to the WG via its Matrix room #events-wg:matrix.org or privately by email to [email protected]. The Events WG will check against the policy and notify you about the decision to include it or not. WG decisions may be overruled by the Foundation's Trust & Safety team.