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Matthew Hodgson
Type maintrack
or... Spaces: The Final Frontier!
Starts on day 2 (2021-02-07) at 12:00 (Brussels time, UTC+1) in room Misc (duration 01:00)
Matrix room #misc:fosdem.org
Matrix (https://matrix.org) is an open protocol for secure, decentralised communication - defining an end-to-end-encrypted real-time communication layer for the open Web suitable for instant messaging, VoIP, microblogging, forums and more. We provide the open standard and open source tools to democratise communication away from the proprietary closed communication silos (Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp etc) that currently dominate.
In this talk, we'll explain all the features we've been adding to let Matrix scale to support massive virtual communities such as FOSDEM itself, Mozilla, KDE and others. This includes Spaces: the ability to group rooms into a hierarchy, for ease of discovery and management; Widgets: the ability to add arbitrary webapps to chatrooms to provide dashboards of additional functionality (e.g. the FOSDEM livestreams and video conferences); Threading: the ability (at last!) to support threaded conversations in Matrix; and Decentralised Reputation - the ability to empower users to tune out content they dislike on their own terms. Our goal is to ensure no open source project ever uses Slack/Discord/Telegram to collaborate ever again. Finally, we'll give a quick tour of the FOSDEM-specific work we've done in order to run FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix!