Working Groups

The Website and Content Working Group is responsible for the editorial and technical oversight of the main Matrix websites and social media channels. This includes the main matrix.org website, conference website, and the various social media channels. The group is responsible for ensuring that the websites are up to date, accurate, and reflect the current state of the Matrix ecosystem. It also includes preparing and publishing the weekly This Week in Matrix news digest. The group is not responsible for domain-specific content of other teams like the spec website, matrix.org homeserver related configurations or the legal and security sections of the website.

Note that this is not the complete list of responsibilities, but a high level overview.

The Events Working Group is the main organising team of the official events hosted by the Foundation, such as The Matrix Conference or co-hosting FOSDEM Fringe, as well as official appearances at other conferences, e.g. the FOSDEM booth and devroom. The WG also acts as first contact point for similar community endeavours, e.g. inquiries related to the Matrix Community Summit, or the FrOSCon Matrix Community devroom, and tries to foster an ecosystem of decentralised events and user groups.

The Homeserver Decentralisation Working Group promotes decentralisation across the Matrix network by helping users discover and join homeservers other than matrix.org. The Working Group focuses on improving the onboarding experience across Matrix homeservers and clients. This may include developing technical solutions for homeserver discovery and selection, as well as proposing broader ecosystem improvements that make decentralised onboarding easier and more reliable.

To make appropriate decisions, the T&S Committee needs to know about the state of T&S in the wider ecosystem. It needs to have insights into current challenges, solutions and initiatives. On the other hand the community can also benefit from having some of that information documented. The T&S R&D WG is a tool to help with that. It includes a wider set of individuals and reports their research results to the T&S Committee. The WG is also encouraged to enhance the documentation on the matrix.org website to help communities and users on Matrix moderate their rooms. The T&S Committee might sometimes ask the WG for help in researching specific topics in more detail to guide their decisions.

The purpose of the room directory Working Group is to implement the matrix.org room directory policy, as described in that policy.

Additionally the Working Group might propose improvements to the policy, which the T&S Committee will then vote on.

The Guild provides space for contributors to discuss safety-sensitive problems that they have encountered and any upcoming work that may impact other projects.

The Governance Working Group is the intended Working Group for discussing most of the tasks that are considered the main responsibility of the Governance Committee in the open, together with the community.