This Week in Matrix

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix Community Workation Krems 2026

Yan says

In case you haven't spent the last few years asleep under a rock, you've probably come across the Matrix Workations: get-togethers where people who work with, on and for Matrix meet up to work together and side by side (here's what the past ones looked like). The next one is coming up, back at the Schwarzes Rössl in Krems, Austria, from 22 August to 13 September 2026.

It's a workation, not a vacation. You can happily keep doing your day job. There are desks, meeting rooms, workshops and the usual infrastructure. But of course there are also topics and project groups we dig into together, so we've split Krems into three blocks:

• Week 1 · Håck ma's (22–30 Aug) ("let's hack" in Austrian slang). Prepping for the Austrian hacker gathering, connecting to the local scene, and exploring hacks from, with and through Matrix. Bring your own Matrix open source project and run a hackathon or bug hunt while you're there.
• Week 2 · Public Sector (31 Aug–6 Sep). Matrix in the public sector, including a project retreat for FITKO (in the NEO project a new Matrix-based fabric for citizen-to-authority communication is being laid). Plus the medical sector, education and universities, and public stuff in general. It's getting tight, but ask us anyway, we try to make things possible.
• Week 3 · Matrix and beyond (7–13 Sep). Matrix in use cases a bit further from the chat case: Home Assistant and IoT, widgets, or whatever your project happens to be.

Grab a ticket (community prices, early-bird until 31 July) at tickets.matrix-community.events. Coming as a project or a group of four? There's a group discount, just ask us for the voucher. And we're still looking for sponsors: sponsoring keeps the community prices low and makes the whole thing possible, so if you or your org would like to support the Workation, please reach out.

Brought to you by Matrix Community Events. Come say hi in #workation-nation-general:datanauten.de.

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live S13E03 – Homeserver Decentralisation Working Group

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗The Matrix Conference

HarHarLinks announces

🔗Last Call for The Matrix Conference Merch Preorders!

Matrix events such as the Conference are always great opportunities to do something special with merch, with exclusive designs never to return! At least for me that's one of the many parts I love about it, right next to the souvenir value of course! For 2026, we decided that last year's white on black edition conference T-shirt and zipper hoodie were plenty stylish, but we wanted more than a re-run. So we decided to expand up everyone's wardrobe opportunities and are going to have black on white (well, reasonably bright grey) this time around! The embroidering will return for the zipper hoodie because we love the quality, feel, and effect, while the T-shirt will be printed. You also might remember the baseball caps we had at FOSDEM earlier this year. Since Conf is going to be in autumn on the verge of the cold season, we are making embroidered beanies in the classic Matrix white on black to keep your ears warm when you go outside to explore Malmö in the evening. Finally we noticed there are still parts of your bodies without Matrix clothing available for them, so I'm really excited to introduce the Matrix socks in Sweden's national colours.

All of this can be preordered before the end of July since we have to make sure we keep to production deadlines. We will do our best to make some of each available for spontaneous decisions on site, but cannot guarantee availability there.

Reserve yours at https://conference.matrix.itmanbu.com/register/!

PS: You will need to make sure your preorder is picked up during the Conference in Malmö, but you can totally order just your merch today if you're not yet sure which ticket you are going to get!

🔗More Volunteering Slots Available

The Matrix Conference is made possible thanks to our awesome sponsors financing it just as well as our awesome volunteer team staffing the welcome desk, operating video equipment, and generally jumping in whenever an extra hand is needed. We have onboarded a lot of volunteers already and our shift booking system was totally booked out while we worked through all these applications from you amazing people, and some have already asked when more will be available. This is (as of writing) the case! If you were waiting for one to free up again, head to our volunteering system and sign up for two shifts to receive a free ticket to the Conference, the limited edition team-only zipper hoodie in special colours, and of course a lot of experience, satisfaction and fun from helping making The Matrix Conference happen!

If you've already signed up a while ago and have received neither an email nor invite on Matrix from us yet, please reach out to us over at #events-wg:matrix.itmanbu.com.

See you soon, your Events WG.

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live S13E02 - Amandine talks Foundation Mission & Funding and Matthew talks about P2P

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

uhoreg 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.itmanbu.com/proposals.

🔗MSC Status

New MSCs:

• MSC4509: Auto join on accepted knock
• MSC4508: Sliding Sync Extension: Typing Notifications
• MSC4507: Return additional room state from /_matrix/federation/v1/hierarchy/{roomId}
• MSC4506: Push Rules for Knocking
• MSC4505: Push Rules for Live Location Sharing
• MSC4504: Using a global version number for the entire specification (v2)
• MSC4503: External Protocol Handles

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• MSC3784: Using room type of m.policy for policy rooms

Closed MSCs:

• No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live S13E01 - Image Packs

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} reports

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.itmanbu.com/proposals.

🔗MSC Status

New MSCs:

• MSC4502: Unrestricted room member access for application services
• MSC4501: Rooms as Social Media Pages
• MSC4500: State accumulator endpoint and transaction digests
• MSC4499: Strict server signing key caching and key ID uniqueness
• MSC4498: Holding messages pending moderation (via policy servers)

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• MSC3784: Using room type of m.policy for policy rooms (merge)

Accepted MSCs:

• MSC4127: Removal of query string auth

Closed MSCs:

• No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.

🔗Spec Updates

Matrix v1.19 released this week! Check out the release blog post for the full details. Exciting improvements include allowing clients to look up and display rooms you have in common with another user, custom emoji and sticker packs and proper history sharing when joining encrypted rooms.

Otherwise the spec process is red hot with many new MSCs opened this week. Remember that anyone can contribute a review to an MSC, so why not take a look at the list of open proposals and weigh in on any that strike your fancy?

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live

🔗Matrix Tutorials #15 – Matrix on Kubernetes

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Was ist Matrix?

David Mehren reports

A few days ago at DO_BYTE, strifel held the talk "Was ist Matrix?", which introduced Matrix and gave an overview of servers, clients and other tools.

You can watch the talk (in German) at https://media.ccc.de/v/do-byte-2026-18-was-ist-matrix

🔗Dept of Stammtische 🍻 (website)

Julis (she/her) announces

A Stammtisch ("regular's table") is a German meetup format where those with a shared interest meet regularly for discussion, exchange, and socialising. Find more community organised events at https://matrix-community.events!

• 8 July 19:00 CEST: #matrix-stammtisch:koeln.ccc.de at C4

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live S12E14 - Andy is the new Thib

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Thib announces

Please join me in welcoming andypiper to the Foundation. Andy will be your next Thib and will take over TWIM, Matrix Live, being the community liaison, organizing the conference, and much more. Welcome Andy!

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib says

🔗Last few days to submit a talk for Matrix Conf

The actual real extended deadline (for real) to submit a talk to Matrix Conf is on 30th June, that is next Tuesday as of writing. The competition is fierce, with more than double the amount of submissions than we can accept, but if you want to throw your hat in the ring, now is the best time!

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live - A Federated Data Marketplace

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

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

Amandine announces

🗳️ Election notice!

And that’s a wrap for this 2026 Governing Board election season! 🏁

We are super excited to announce our new and re-elected Governing Board members: congratulations all, and welcome!

Representatives of the Ecosystem members

• Kim Brose (Matrix Community Events)
• Nico Werner (Nheko-Reborn)
• Jade Ellis (Continuwuity)

Representative of the Platinum member

• Neil Johnson (Element Creations)

Representatives of the Spec Core team

• Alexey Rusakov
• Richard van der Hoff

Representatives of the Guardians

• Matthew Hodgson
• Ross Schulman

Representatives of the Individual members

• Max
• Mathieu Velten

Representatives of the Silver members

• Yoan Pintas (DINUM)
• Niklas Zender (Famedly)

We will also welcome a new Governing Board member who joined as a replacement of his ex-colleague at Automattic: (single Gold member): Nick Mills-Barrett!

Also a huge thank you to all of those who will be leaving the board, your support was greatly appreciated.

Check out the details on our blog

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live - Matrix over DMLS

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Last Weekend to Submit a Talk to Matrix Conf

Thib announces

That's right, the CfP closes on Sunday, 14th June... that means in two days as of publishing 😱

If you want to submit a talk, now's the time!

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live S12E11 - Relay, macOS client

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Re-opening Conference Merch Pre-Orders

Thib announces

By popular demand: we have reopened the pre-orders for the conference merch, since we managed to push back the production deadline with our partner!

You now have until the end of July to pre-order your hoodie, T-shirt, beanie, and socks on the Conference Store

Continue reading…

🔗Matrix Live S12E10 – Element Demos

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

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

Amandine says

🗳️ Election notice!

🚥 Only a few hours left before kick-off! The voting for the Governing Board election is starting tonight, and is open until the 12 June. All eligible voters should keep an eye out for an email from OpaVote.

Check out our blog post and election page for details and links to the candidates lists.

📅 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

📢 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)

So if you are a member of one of these groups keep an eye out for your voting email or get in touch if you haven't received it by Monday!

Continue reading…