👕 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 have until end of July to pre-order your hoodie, T-shirt, beanie, and socks on the Conference Store! conference.matrix.org/register/#ti...

Voting has started for the Governing Board, many upcoming events, and more support (soon) for the matrix scheme. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

🚥 And off we go! The voting for the Governing Board election is starting tonight, and is open until the 12th of June. All eligible voters should keep an eye out for an email from OpaVote. Check out the details: matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

From Bluesky’s work on permissions data, to adding e2ee to activitypub, there are a lot of projects working on private data, converging towards something that’s roughly Matrix-shaped. But the dynamics underneath turned out to be stranger than I thought connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

Hammerhead becomes Venator, a Matrix spring update live from the Matrix Community Summit by Matthew and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

🚀 Exciting to see the Swedish govt 🇸🇪 demonstrating what #DigitalSovereignty looks like! Försäkringskassan and Trafikverket have leveraged Matrix’s interop and showcased seamless comms while using respectively @element.io and Rocket.Chat! ➡️ Learn all about it here: www.esamverka.se/aktuellt/nyh...

"it seems to me that we're doing carcinization for protocols" - @laurenshof https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr163-decrypting-matrix

🥁 Drumroll! We now have our final list of candidates for the GB election! Huge thanks to all of you for stepping up to support the Foundation 🫶 Check out our blog post to discover who they are, and meet them around our campaigning bonfires 🔥 to learn more about them! ➡️ matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

A new member in the Foundation, during the Clients Update week. That and much more happened This Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

YOU can change Matrix, by running for the Governing Board! Not sure about how it works, what you can do, and the amount of time expected from you? Current members get you covered in this Matrix Live. Nominate before Saturday, 16th May! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1bJ...

A lot of meetups and events, only one more week for Governing Board election nominations and 🚨 2 servers with security releases. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

The Matrix Conference 2026 Call for Proposals is still OPEN! 🗓️ Oct 20-23, 2026 | Malmö, Sweden Come share what you're building with the Matrix community cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/cfp #MatrixConf #OpenSource

Governing Board elections, Matrix Conf ticket sale, plenty of clients and servers updates... what a week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

And off we go 🚀 ! You can now nominate your candidate for the Governing Board elections until the 15th May! 📢 Find out all the details in our blog: matrix.org/blog/2026/05...

Last year: 331 attendees, 12 countries, 52 workplaces building on Matrix. 2026 is going to be even bigger, and YOUR talk could be part of it. Submit a proposal for #MatrixConf 2026 in Malmö, Sweden cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe... #Matrix #CFP #OpenSource

The elections cycle for our Governing Board are starting NOW! Voting will end on June 13, but there are many steps before. If you want to steer the direction of Matrix, this is your chance. matrix.org/foundation/g...

mx.api 0.1.0 is on CRAN! 🎉 An R client for the Matrix Client-Server API Chat between R and @matrix.org Login, rooms, messages, history, media. E2EE next. #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=mx.api

New features in the tacid client, a terraform provider for Matrix, and events organisation. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

Exciting to see public sector deployments of Matrix in Europe all mapped out. This really highlights how Matrix has become the standard for communication for these organisations, and the diversity of vendors available to support these deployments!

💡 Got a story to tell about Matrix? The #MatrixConf 2026 CFP is open! Topics include: Matrix internals, public sector deployments, community, safety, and more. 🗓️ Oct 20-23, 2026 | Malmö, Sweden cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe... #DigitalSovereignty #Decentralization #E2EE

The Community Summit this summer, a roadmap for Draupnir, and a Discord-like bot for Matrix. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

📣 The Call for Proposals for #MatrixConf 2026 is open! Whether you're working on decentralisation, encryption, digital sovereignty, UX, or just built something fun with Matrix, we want to hear from you! 🗓️ Oct 20–23, 2026 | Malmö, Sweden Submit your talk cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe...

A new page to Try Matrix, a new client for macOS, and policyserver improvements. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

A major release of Draupnir, Synapse Admin becoming Ketesa, and a Call for Proposals for the Matrix Conference. That and much more happened Last Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

2/ This second part of the talk covers 3. On boarding 4. App features 5. Matrix client use (Element)

Lots of Demos, our first annual report, Matrix spec v1.18 release, MatrixRTC for Trixnity - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

"Happy to tell you how you can do it!" @amandine.bsky.social DMA Vox Populi Podcast Ep. 3 (PREVIEW) www.youtube.com/shorts/QJIie...

🥁 The Matrix.org Foundation has published its first Public Annual Report! 📊 👀 Have a peek into our day-to-day and check out what we’ve been working on in 2025. It also includes a report of our finances and the plan for 2026! Enjoy! ➡️ The blog: matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Hey all, another Matrix release is here! Matrix 1.18 brings quite a lot into the protocol, including policy servers, invite blocking, other safety improvements, and 16 total MSCs. Check it out on the blog => matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform! 🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons. element.io/blog/governm...

A governance WG meeting, breaking changes upcoming in Draupnir, more polish for the Nexus client... That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Last day to respond to the Sovereign Tech Agency Survey on Standards Engagement! Open standards are key to a digitally sovereign future, we need ways to support the contributors and maintainers building them. Time to share your experience with the STA! ➡️ survey.sovereigntechfund.de/999999

Rappler rolled out our matrix protocol chat app in 2023. In 2025, up to 65 news groups joined a shared reality: public chat rooms to strengthen local journalism. Sick of insidious manipulation of Big Tech? Join us! rappler.com/about/specia... via @rappler.com.web.brid.gy #ReclaimOurRights

Pangea Chat as a new Silver Member, 3 new Project Hydra MSCs and a big Element Call update! This and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Check out @edouard.paris’s new @matrix.org powered server the atproto community in France @atproto.fr You can use your atproto account to login.

Inviting by link, splitting the costs of anything from dinner to your whole workation, and speeding up Element X Android - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

Our analysis of reported issues in vodozemac: matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

hey look, a thoughtful and honest communication from @matrix.org on the nuances and challenges of age verification since a bunch of people moved from discord! matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

We're delighted to welcome the massive influx of users looking for decentralised alternatives to Discord! Here's what to expect, and some clarity on the growing challenges posed by age verification. matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

Hm, did something happen over at Discord?

🎤 Missed Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson’s talk “Matrix state of the Union” at FOSDEM? 🚀 From real-world deployments and recent ecosystem updates, to why the European Commission recommends Matrix, they give a clear snapshot of where Matrix is today www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Keu...

For our v1.0 release, @discord.com has pulled the open source version back internally and is running 100% of their production traffic through Osprey while @safety.bsky.app has been running it in production since v0.1. @matrix.org is getting ready for their own Osprey deployment.

It's time for the mission report, let's start the YouTube LiveStream! www.youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...

Time is up for our hackathon! Our mighty teams have successfully hacked their way towards the Matrix Caps! We'll start live streaming the results in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...

QuadRadical ismaking steady progress on Nexus, MatMaul is hooking encrypted search into Element X... the prototypes are polishing up!

We're starting to see the first results of the hackathon! Florian here is building a Rust bot that talks to Christian's receipt printer, and makes it print what they send to a room. Prototypes are taking form, keep up the good work everyone!

Plenty of conversations have been going on during lunch. Some serious, some less, but it's a very light hearted hackathon. Community first!

Not only do we have drinks, Famedly is also graciously sponsoring our lunch. And what better meal than pizzas to get more hacker brain juice?

Thanks to our sponsor Famedly, people at the hackathon can get refreshed. We even get to play with a fancy bar code scanner!

The Hackathon is making progress, people have formed teams! Integrations, Spec, Custom Emojis, Encrypted Search... there are plenty of ideas flying around!