5h agoOK everyone, This Week in Matrix is out... 👀
@Amandine writes about the 🇪🇺 DC-EDIC; 🚀 8 more MSCs enter FCP; 🏛️ The Matrix Conference is just days away; clients and homeserver updates; and more! #MatrixConf #Malmo #TWIM
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/10/16/this-week-in-matrix-2026-10-16
9h agoUNICC serves over 100 UN entities and other international organizations, operating in a global environment where secure, cross-agency collaboration is essential to fulfilling its mandates. Come learn about UNICC's experience deploying #Matrix at scale to support this work at the #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö.
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/DNNLEW/
11h agoThe @European Commission announced its #TechSovereignty Package in June. Alexandru Vignide and Diana Gheorghe from the EC @EUCommission demonstrate how it works in practice at the #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö.
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/YHV8XB/
13h agoWorking groups are the backbone of the Matrix community -- engaged, talented folks with a passion to build a better Matrix. Come hear from the Widgets and Homeserver Decentralisation teams! #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö #OpenSource
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/HKSYET/
https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/ZAMKVT/ @nicolas
15h agoEver wanted to see a Matrix client developed from scratch, live, on stage? Ivan @hywan takes you through it, only at #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö. Then Damir Jelić tech lead for the Matrix Rust SDK, explains what's new. #Rust Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/BQUNNE/
Weekly Recap https://etke.cc/news/2026-10-15-weekly-recap/
10/15/2026Imagine you operate communications for one of Europe's largest defense organisations -- how do you know when it's time to change the locks? Bjoern Reiners talks using Matrix at the Germany's federal defense force, the @Bundeswehr
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/8ZCYUQ/
#MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö
10/15/2026Improving Matrix's timeline feature without sacrificing #federation has been a challenge - but now, there's a plan! Hear Continuwuity's Jade and Ginger explain it. #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö @JadedBlueEyes
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/WRGTRX/
I've been so inactive here... I haven't done this in ages (and the instance is making it hard...) Welcome @me I guess test instance?
10/15/2026Digital sovereignty is a board-level priority, but ambition often outpaces reality. How to bridge the gap? Come hear from Forrester's Dario Maisto! #MatrixConf #malmo
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/KZM8NW/
Six of the open source vendors behind #openDesk, including Element, have formed Open Productivity: a joint venture bringing the sovereign digital workplace to businesses and critical infrastructure operators.
We provide openDesk's secure, real-time comms, built on #Matrix. Each organisation can run its own server and keep control of its data, while still talking securely to suppliers, regulators and partners.
https://element.io/blog/vendors-behind-opendesk-join-forces-as-open-productivity/
10/14/2026🇪🇺 Matrix underpins public sector comms across Europe, from France's Tchap to Germany's BundesMessenger. Yet only one government agency commits to support the standard they all rely on.
💡 That’s just one gap to fill to build an open source Europe. The new Digital Commons EDIC @Digital_Commons_EDIC can make a real impact though, and here’s how: https://matrix.org/blog/2026/10/14/build-open-source-europe-how-dc-edic-help/
10/14/2026My status: 🦄 @element is working to create live updates; hear about the technical challenges to making this happen. #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö @anoa
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/QD377V/
10/14/2026What if a private network in Sweden could talk to an equally private network in France? And they could both talk to NATO? Come see how comms can be federated, private *and* interoperable! #MatrixConf 20-23 Oct #Malmö. @jeroen Mathieu Velten Kenneth Edwall
Learn more: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/KDNVUL/
10/13/2026What can Matrix offer governments over proprietary solutions? Come learn from the experience of civil servants who have deployed Matrix at scale in the public sector! @Amandine #MatrixConf #malmo https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/VZQLU3/
10/13/2026Ready to discover what's happening around #Matrix this year? Don't miss Matrix co-founder @matthew in the annual Matrix State of the Union kicking off #MatrixConf!
Germany's sovereign office suite, openDesk from ZenDiS, now deploys Element Server Suite (ESS) under its own branding.
What that means for openDesk operators:
🔒 Hardened images
🧭 Upstream ESS, so faster features and fixes
🔑 Next-generation auth, with openDesk's Nubus-based IdP
We're with ZenDiS on the openDesk stand at Smart Country Convention in Berlin this week (13-15 October). Come and say hello!
https://element.io/blog/opendesk-now-runs-element-server-suite-direct-from-upstream/
10/12/2026RE: https://chaos.social/@T_X/117421446574968573
It is not too late to get a ticket and join us in Malmö next week! 😀 #malmo #MatrixConf
10/9/2026This Week in Matrix, we're talking about this week's panel at the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg #OSCL26; looking ahead to #MatrixConf; reporting on the latest progress in the Matrix specification; client app updates; and, interesting things built on Matrix.
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/10/09/this-week-in-matrix-2026-10-09/
Weekly Recap https://etke.cc/news/2026-10-08-weekly-recap/