Matrix Live

In which we meet Eric and have the kick-off meeting for building a proper native bridge for Gitter!

It's demos week this week! That means we get to see demos of various projects people are working on around the Matrix core team. See the full demos list below:

* Michael shows off all the new widget goodies coming to Element Web!* Bruno shows off Hydrogen's new encrypted session backup support!* Ismail details the new room creation flow on Element iOS!* Jorik presents his work on revamping the UX of https://matrix.to that he completed for his second summer internship at Element!* Hubert fixes another class of failure-to-decrypt messages edge case with Device Dehydration!* Half-Shot closes off with the tale of Encrypted Bridges!

https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/

Kegan discusses Complement, testing suite for Homeservers

Steve from iOS: FaceID and PIN protection

ChristianP shows "Easy bridge creation with matrix-appservice-bridge"

Bruno demos Hydrogen e2ee features

Nico, one of the Nheko client maintainers, discusses the state of the project and shares various opinions about Matrix, chat clients, physics, the local weather and so on.

Chat with the developer of Conduit, a highly developed, nearly mature homeserver written in Rust: https://git.koesters.xyz/timo/conduit

E2E, P2P Dendrite and Matrix used for live events

Figma bridge, Github (and more) bridge, IRC performance (good news!)

Let's hear from Christian about working on his dream projects, his thoughts on bridging, hosting, and the importance and nature of chatbots and assistants.