Matrix Live

This week my guest was Greg who organised the Ansible Contributor Summit on Matrix and was happy with it! Learn more about the setup they used, what worked and what they're going to change for their next conference.

This week Kat from Element is telling us what her Community Testing initiative is about, and how you can help!

Julian Sparber, co-maintainer of Fractal, tells us about their initiative to rewrite the client. You can talk to the Fractal community by joining their room here: https://matrix.to/#/#fractal:gnome.org

 

00:00 Intro00:10 What is Fractal Next?02:57 Current status05:04 Summer of Code09:32 Contributing as a newcomer11:23 matrix-rust-sdk14:54 Sponsored work16:20 Next steps19:08 Last words & Outro 

matrix-rust-sdk: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-...

 

Julian’s work on Fractal Next is sponsored by the NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/project/Fractal/

Hanging out with James, Valère, Danielle and Nad from Element and talking about the new feature, Spaces, that just got out of beta.

 

Learn more at https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/

 

00:00 Intro

00:35 What are Spaces?

01:40 Communities vs Spaces

03:25 Development

08:03 Influence of Communities on design

11:34 Evolution of Spaces over the past year

16:01 Use of Spaces internally at Element

19:37 Teams involved

23:19 New room version

25:55 Room upgrades

28:46 What’s next?

Matrix's reference server implementation Synapse has a lot to keep in its database. This week in Matrix, William tells us about the State Compressor he wrote during his internship to reduce the size of Synapse's database.

He also worked on Synapse modules API, and on Sydent, Matrix' Identity Server to make the configuration more straightforward.

The Matrix Live Brendan mentions is S06E30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6s7O3j5998

Thanks a lot William for your work!

This week our guest is Ajay, the main developer on Cinny!Ajay tells us why he created Cinny, who's behind it, and how you can help.

To know more about the project - Try the app (https://app.cinny.in)- Join their Matrix room (https://matrix.to/#/#cinny:matrix.org)- Browse the code, find issues and hack around (https://github.com/ajbura/cinny)- Support them on OpenCollective (https://opencollective.com/cinny)

On September 13, Element publicly disclosed a vulnerability affecting several clients. Denis, the security researcher who found the vulnerability walks us though the details: what does it affect, how does it translate for users, and how to disclose a vulnerability properly.

Manu, iOS lead! We discussed:

# iOS Product

Better VoIP Voice messages UI changesRoom listsPapercutsPerformanceUI thread no more blocked by background operationsStartup time divided by 3 or 4Project

# Future

SpacesThreadsFull mesh conference callsBetter app navigation: Keep the navigation historyNew authentication screen Instant startSwiftUI: Working on new screen template with the next architectureMockData UI testsReady for another SDK

# Hiring

Go see https://apply.workable.com/elementio/

We forgot to mention that Doug is also the creator of Watch the Matrix! https://github.com/pixlwave/Watch-The-Matrix This allows you to use your Apple Watch as a native client (rather than through another iDevice)

These fellows all recently started to work for Element,  and (claim!) to enjoy it. Element are HIRING, so if YOU think think you'd like to apply, check out https://apply.workable.com/elementio/ for current listings and details of how to apply.

Loads of work has happened on Hydrogen this summer, and much more is planned! Ben chats to Bruno, Midhun and Daniel about their progress.