Voting for the Governing Board elections begins this weekend! ๐ Watch your email inbox if you're an Individual Member, or the point of contact for a Silver, Gold, or Associate Member, as that's where your ballot will be sent. Visit our election center for more information.
I have decided that I will not stand for re-election in the upcoming Governing Board elections, however I have made a few endorsements for candidates. See my endorsement blog post.
If you are interested in lending a hand, volunteer to help us organize the conference, or join the Events WG!
We're grateful to Element for committing to being our Anchor Sponsor for the Matrix Conference 2025. To make this an excellent event, we are looking for further sponsors! Many opportunities are still available, including booths to present your product, live stream and video recording for worldwide recognition, food, and more! Your ideas are possible; contact us at [email protected]!
Meet the nominees for the Governing Board and swing by the election rooms to ask questions and get to know them better. Huge thanks to all of the nominees for stepping up to serve the community! Voting begins on May 31st.
The Matrix.org Foundation is happy to announce that the Matrix Conference 2025 will be held at Kaleidoscoop in Strasbourg, France, from October 15 to 18!
Last year the Conference was completely sold out, with more than 200 decision makers, experts and enthusiasts joining us for this very first edition! The rooms were so full, and we had such a long waiting list that we've decided to extend our capacity this year to 300 attendees, with flexibility for more.
We would like to thank our Anchor Sponsor Element for their dedication to the Matrix ecosystem and to the success of the Conference! Thank you, Element, for enabling us to make the Conference happen!
Another six months has passed since our last
report, and
elections are just around the
corner. So that
means itโs time for another Board report. Weโll be asking you to select some
new board members, and itโs only right that you get some insight into the work
thatโs been going on with the ones we have!
We are excited to announce that The Matrix Conference will happen in Strasbourg from October 15 to 18!
Following last year's success, we bumped our capacity to accept more than 300 attendees this year.
The nomination period for this years's governing board electionsends tonight (UTC)! If you're an Individual, Silver, Gold, or Associate member, submit your nomination here!
Tomorrow (UTC), the 2 week campaigning period begins officially, but you are already allowed to campaign, for example in the official Governing Board campaigning rooms.
It's Governing Board election season and nominations opened last weekend! This year we're electing representatives for Gold, Silver, Individual, and Associate Members. Learn more on the 2025 election page and consider nominating yourself! You can also drop by the Office of the Governing Board to talk to current representatives and community members.
MAS v0.16.0 was released this week with a new migration tool! It's still called syn2mas, but it's faster, more accurate and... written in Rust. ๐ฆ Running it against matrix.org showed users being migrated at a rate of 60k/s!
It's time for our annual Governing Board elections!
This year we're electing representatives from Individual Members, Associate Members, Gold Members, and Silver Members.
Nominations open at midnight UTC as we move from Friday to Saturday, May 3rd.
Learn more in our election announcement blog post.
Please join me in welcoming Filament and infra.run as the newest Silver Members of the Foundation!
The financial support we receive from members like them helps us steward the Matrix protocol as an unfragmented standard, facilitate open governance, and advance the state of Trust & Safety for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.
We're grateful for the outpouring of support from across the ecosystem. We still need a few larger organisations to step up. Do you rely on Matrix? Join us as a funding member.
Today we kick off the second Governing Board election season for the Matrix.org Foundation!
We start with a two week nomination period that opens on Saturday, May 3rd and closes on Friday, May 16th.
This yearโs deadlines are anchored to the UTC timezone, rather than the AOE approach that we used with mixed results last year.
Weโll be doing our best to reach out to everyone in the Gold, Silver, Individual, and Associate Member constituent groups to let them know they are eligible to nominate candidates for the election.
If you are interested in nominating someone โ or yourself โ to be a candidate in this election, read this post in its entirety.
We are delighted announce that LiveKit is the newest Silver Member of the Foundation!
The LiveKit Project is an open source project that does everything Matrix needs for native group calls, and the company behind the project is donating their LiveKit Cloud services to help us provide that functionality to users on the Matrix.org homeserver.
We're grateful for their support and look forward to announcing 2-3 more new Silver Members in the coming weeks ๐
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.
The update above is actually from the last 21 days to make up for the lack of spec updates recently (I've been travelling!).
In my opinion, the most interesting part to talk about above is MSC4284: Policy Servers. If you haven't already, read the matrix.org blog post on Introducing Policy Servers. In short, they're servers on the internet where you can send events to and have them be checked for spam/illegal imagery/etc. before allowing the event to be sent down to your users. You can think of them like a SpamChecker Synapse module, but homeserver implementation agnostic.
This is a pretty interesting idea, and one can host their own policy server to keep the network decentralised. If you're interested in weighing in on the topic, please do so on the MSC!
Note: the idea of a "policy server" is not new. This MSC attempts to bring the concept in to the Matrix ecosystem specifically for Trust & Safety purposes. But the APIs could be used to enforce any policy (security, enterprise use cases, etc.).
We've recently seen serious spam attacks against Matrix, so we're introducing Policy Servers to recommend whether servers should accept or discard events before they get synced to clients. If your server participates in public rooms, see https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers to keep it safe.
