France confirms that Matrix (and Riot) is the basis for their upcoming secure communication app for official government use, and will be 100% FOSS! Exciting times :D
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Incredibly exciting to get official confirmation that Germany's health service (@gematik1) has standardised on Matrix for secure decentralised communications, targeting all 150,000 healthcare organisations in Germany(!!!) 🤯 Read all about it at matrix.org/blog/2021/07/2… 💉🇩🇪🚀
Really excited that Mozilla has selected Matrix, @RiotChat and @ModularIM as the successor to IRC for all their community chat needs! The future will be open - both open source, open open standard and open web :D
We're very excited (and a little bit nervous :D) that @FOSDEM is planning to go virtual this year via Matrix for chat/community, using @jitsinews for the video conferencing. Read all about it (and how you might be able to help!):
Want all the gory details of how we hosted the world's largest free/open source conference #FOSDEM21 via Matrix? We just posted the full writeup at matrix.org/blog/2021/02/1…. Huge thanks to @fosdem for putting their faith in Matrix & to everyone who helped make it a success! 🎉❄️🎆
BIG NEWS: Huge welcome to @gitchat, who are entering Matrix!! Gitter is moving from @gitlab to @element_hq & building the ultimate Matrix bridge, showcasing how a large chat app can natively talk Matrix, while bringing Gitter goodness to Element! 🚀🌉🎉
Since announcing the idea of Matrix 2.0 at FOSDEM, we've been busy building out full real-world implementations for folks to play with, and today we're super excited to take the wraps off Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix. matrix.org/blog/2023/09/m… 👀🎉🎊🍾👀
HUGE NEWS: @ethstatus has invested a whopping $5M in New Vector (the company which currently employs most of the Matrix.org core team) in order to further the cause of open decentralised communication!! matrix.org/blog/posts?p=2…
It's a wrap! @FOSDEM 2011 is over, complete with confetti cannon and fireworks in the closing keynote. Huge thanks to @FOSDEM for choosing Matrix to power the conference; we hope that it captured enough of the vibe of the real event :) Hopefully see you at ULB in 2022!🤞🤞🤞
Matrix 1.0 IS HERE!!! 🎉🎊🦑💥🥳🤯 As is Synapse 1.0 & the formal launch of The Matrix.org Foundation. Read all at matrix.org/blog/2019/06/1… and matrix.org/blog/2019/06/1…. 1.0 is all about security+stability rather than new features, but now with 1.0 done, bring it on!!
Massive news today as @element_hq raises $30M of Series B funding led by @protocollabs & metaplanet to turbo-charge core Matrix dev and radically improve Element! P2P Matrix, decentralised E2EE video confs, decentralised reputation... here we come!! 🚀💸🚀 matrix.org/blog/2021/07/2…
This is *huge* news - the DMA has passed in the EU Parliament, including the interoperability extension to social media, mandating that the big tech gatekeepers must adopt open standards for interoperability. The world is changing... :D #CompDM