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FOSDEM PWA

Matrix State of the Union

AW1.126 | Day 2 | 10:30 - 11:00 | Speakers: Matthew Hodgson, Amandine Le Pape

Matrix State of the Union
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Abstract

An overview of all that's been happening with the Matrix protocol in the last year, including:

  • Project Hydra (state resolution improvements)

  • Trust & Safety improvements

  • Matrix 2.0 MSCs (OIDC, Simplified Sliding Sync, Matrix RTC and Invisible Crypto)

  • P2P Matrix progress

  • Encryption advances with MLS, post quantum

  • Updates on the scores of public sector Matrix deployments we're seeing emerge as countries seek digital sovereignty...

...and more!

Speakers

Matthew Hodgson

Project Lead & Co-founder of Matrix; Director of The Matrix.org Foundation. Dayjob is CEO/CTO at Element, the company founded by the creators of Matrix to try to fund our work on Matrix.

Amandine Le Pape

Amandine is a founding member of the European Open Source Academy where she heads the Business and Impact section, aiming to promote open source and support the ecosystem to stay sustainable and increase its impact. She also is a co-founder and Guardian of the Matrix.org Foundation. The Foundation is the custodian for the Matrix open standard, aiming to democratise secure online communication and solve the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP, VR and IoT technologies. Amandine is also COO and co-founder for Element, the company building the eponym open source, secure and interoperable collaboration tool built on Matrix. Element delivers Matrix solutions to millions of users, including the German Armed Forces, the Swedish and French governments, the UN, and private companies like Mozilla or Red Hat.

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