Matrix "Live" Ep 5 (Aug 11)
Added 2017-08-11 16:49:25 +0000 UTCThis week's action-packed Matrix "live" covers:
Funding:
- Corporate sponsorship:
- Welcoming INblockchain.com as a new corporate sponsor!
- This takes corporate sponsorship to 10% of our target!
- Comodo has very kindly paid for an EV codesigning certificate for Riot Develop
- Individual supporters:
- Patreon: We passed $2000/month (now at $2200!); our initial Patreon goal was $2500 (pays for a junior dev to work half-time on Matrix) so almost there! Our next goal will be to fund them full time (so $5000/month).
- Including Liberapay & Bitcoin we're at $3500/month.
- We now accept Ethereum too!
Releases:
- Release candidate of Riot/Web is being cut as we speak and put on riot.im/staging so folks can have a play over the weekend!
- Widgets and Modular
- RTE
- Ctrl-K room navigation
- New release on iOS & Android!!!!
- Internationalisation! 4 languages on iOS (French, German, Dutch, English) and 17(?!) on Android
- MELS
- Dark themes coming soon; Android looking good
Matrix dev:
- Groups are continuing
- Crypto fixes are landing
- Dendrite is progressing with monolith, naffka, publicRooms API etc.
- We are pausing bridge dev (help wanted!) and new synapse dev (other than groups) to focus properly on Dendrite.
