GUADEC 2017 - Matthew Hodgson - Decentralised open communication with Matrix.org
Channel: GUADEC
Date: 02/08/2018

Matrix.org is a relatively new open standard for decentralised realtime communication - providing an open global network (including end-to-end encryption) that links together communication silos such as Slack, IRC, Gitter, Telegram, XMPP etc.  Matrix has gained some popularity in the GNOME developer community since GIMPNet was bridged into the wider Matrix ecosystem in March (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-March/msg00033.html), and meanwhile Matrix's goals of entirely open source and democratised communication are quite aligned with the ethos of the GNOME project.

This talk will be a formal introduction and demonstration of the Matrix ecosystem, its APIs and spec, its clients/servers/bridges/bots, its end-to-end encryption, its goals and its current status, as given by the project lead.

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