25–27 Oct 2024
The Hague, Netherlands
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Matrix 2.0: Making Matrix Mainstream

25 Oct 2024, 17:00
50m
KWA - Plenary room (World Forum The Hague)

KWA - Plenary room

World Forum The Hague

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Table of Contents

  1. Speaker
  2. Description
  3. Session author's bio
  4. Presentation materials

Speaker

Matthew Hodgson (he/him)

Description

Matrix is the open decentralised communication protocol recently adopted by the Ubuntu Community for realtime communication.

Much like Linux, Matrix has been on a journey - starting as a very developer-focused technology, and then making the transition to being usable by mainstream desktop/mobile users and being able to outperform closed proprietary alternatives. This has culminated in Matrix 2.0 - a set of new APIs which let Matrix clients such as Element X outperform the likes of Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp.

In this talk I'll give a VIP tour of Matrix 2.0 in my capacity as Project Lead of Matrix, and explain how we're trying to ensure that open communication eventually wins - and that Matrix becomes the real-time communication layer of the open Web.

Session author's bio

Matthew is co-founder and Project Lead of Matrix. His day job is CEO/CTO at Element, the company founded by the team who created Matrix to support their development work.

Social Media https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix
Level of Difficulty Intermediate

Presentation materials