Matrix Sync livestreaming!
we're late... but on air!
2017-10-02 09:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Funding:
* Progress on fully resolving the funding crisis continues, but interesting in talking to everyone who can help!
* We have until the end of October to fully resolve things :)
Synapse: 0.23 to be released on Monday
* bug fixes & perf
* privacy-preserving push notif support in advance of PushKit
* Antiscam integration for cryptocommunities
Dendrite:
* Lots of work refini...
2017-09-29 13:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Funding:
- No new corp sponsors to announce, but lots more individual patreons; welcome and thank you!! The money is literally going straight to paying the team right now, so thank you.
- Much drama in the cryptocurrency space with folks trying to pick between Riot & Rocket.Chat. A bunch of folks have gone to Rocket.Chat, but we're hoping the remainder will go to Riot.
- Librem5 project is picking up thanks to partnership with KDE; Matthew's been w...
2017-09-22 16:55:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Blending into the beanbags, Matthew & Amandine tell the tale of the last week:
* Funding
- no new sponsors
- but we're making very good progress on funding thanks to the Ethereum community; watch this space.
- Ethereum London meetup: http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/09/14/matrix-demo-steals-show-ethereum-london-conference-meetu...
2017-09-15 22:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Al fresco Matrix Live from the rainy depths of Berlin, as we report on this week's progress on Synapse, Dendrite, Riot - and welcome OmiseGo as new sponsors in return for their very generous donation!
2017-09-08 20:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, on Matrix Live...
Funding:
Announcing Callstats.io as corporate sponsor!
We reached our first goal on Patreon! And totalise $3000/month across Patreon and Liberapay
A few big BTC & ETH donations too
Last week of Google Summer of Code:
Thank you to Michael for https://view.matrix.org/ a static Matrix client; for Aram for collapseable membership events on iOS and upcoming ability to Shar...
2017-09-01 12:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostToday is a bank holiday in the UK, so we'll be doing our weekly sync tomorrow instead for those Elliptic supporters who participate and thise Polynomial ones who dial in :)
2017-08-28 08:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, on Matrix Live...
Funding:
$9 away from our first goal on Patreon!
No new sponsors to announce this week, although we've had a few good conversations.
Liberapay is up to almost €100 a week
BTC & ETH doing well too
We're not doing an ICO (yet); anyone offering you Matrix Tokens is either confused or scamming you.
Riot/Web:
We released everything! Widgets made it in there in the end
P...
2017-08-25 19:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday we had a special mid-week episode of Matrix Live to announce the Purism Librem 5 - the world's first ever Matrix-native smartphone, featuring Todd Weaver (CEO of Purism) and Matthew chatting about the announcement and the plan for the phone. We're posting it here on Patreon alongside the other Matrix Live episodes for the record :)
2017-08-25 19:02:20 +0000 UTC View PostOops - we completely forgot to share the live stream url this week. So here it is in retrospect!
2017-08-21 11:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Special late-night edition of Matrix "Live" thanks to a never-ending week (Amandine's on holiday). Lots of fun stuff:
Funding:
* No new corporate sponsors this week
* $2405/m patreon - almost at our first goal of $2500/m!
iOS
* Dark theme!
* Jitsi!
* More languages!
* Next release should include GSoC goodness (e.g. share extension written by Aram)
Web
* Release candidate ...
2017-08-18 23:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks; here's this week's livestream sync... starting... now!
2017-08-14 09:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This 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:
&nbs...
2017-08-11 16:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks - here's the stream for this week's sync, starting in a few minutes.
2017-08-07 09:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a "oh crap it's 7pm on a Friday and we forgot to record Matrix Live" episode of Matrix Live!!!
Featuring:
* Huge migration fun
* IPv6!
* New Vector exists - almost everyone works there now; you'll see copyright statements popping up
* Matrix.org Foundation paperwork still ongoing
* Got our first wave of money from Patreon! However, not all of it converted through: $1977/month; need more donors!
* A few more commercial sponsorship and consulting conversations, but nothi...
Here's the link for the live weekly team sync.
2017-07-31 09:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This pre-caffeine episode covers:
- Funding updates: growth is slowing down and no new sponsor to announce but we got new contacts and discussions are ongoing
- Org updates:
- Matrix foundation almost there
- New Vector was incorporated to hire the core team and support some Matrix-related commercial activities (commercial support, custom devs and prioritised bug fixing...). Get in touch if of any interest!
As a consequenc...
2017-07-28 11:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the live stream of the internal weekly team sync (this week it may even work... :S)
2017-07-24 09:27:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode covers:
funding update:
- new corporate sponsorship from PrivateInternetAccess.com!!
- but we've still got a long way to go to be sustainable... corporate sponsors and companies building on Matrix, please get in touch!
- Updates on E2E UX
- Updates on E2E Development
- The plan for fixing State Reset bugs
- Updates on @mentions UI/UX
- MELS on mobile!
- iOS dark theme!
- Groups - you can edit them! (in PR on ...
2017-07-21 17:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We've decided to release the Matrix 'Live' video podcasts to the general public a week after they're posted to Patreon Quadratic/Polynomial/Elliptic supporters!
So, folks: this is what you missed out on last week... and if you want to see the next episode immediately then please support us on Patreon!
This ep covered:
* Funding update
- Announcing UpCloud.com as our first corporate sponsor!!!!!
- Patreon update! Well on the way to funding one person, but we need t...
2017-07-21 17:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks - just a heads up that we just posted a general update on funding, sponsorship & the various ongoing development projects over on the official Matrix blog in case you missed it :)
https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/19/status-update/
2017-07-19 02:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Polynomial supporters - firstly, thank you for donating so generously!!
As promised, we're broadcasting our internal weekly Matrix sync meetings live for your delectation. The meetings run at 10:30 London time every week, and is the only point during the week that the whole Matrix team gets in the same place by video call to do a semi-formal standup to crosscheck on what we're up to. This is a chance to put a face directly to the folks who you're supporting, and see precisely ...
2017-07-17 09:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday everyone - here's a 15 minute podcast-ish stream of consciousness from Matthew & Amandine giving an update on all things Matrix that happened this week :D Thanks again for sponsoring and supporting Matrix!!
2017-07-14 20:03:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks - this is just a quick note to say THANK YOU to everyone who has signed up to support us so generously so far. We hit $1000/month within only 24 hours of launching our SOS, and meanwhile more supporters are still signing up! As of right now we have $1300/month on Patreon, $140/month on Liberarpay, and $215 on bitcoin - thank you!!
For context: $1000/month is already making an impact on the project: roughly speaking it helps pay the base salary for 1 day of Matrix work a we...
2017-07-11 00:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post