Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡

36c3: Matrix Assembly is the place to be

If you're at 36c3 this weekend, come and find us! Use c3nav app to find our assembly, or just join #chaosevents:matrix.org to come chat

Bundeswehr considering Matrix

Oleg said:

The German Army is considering using Matrix as "secure WhatsApp" for soldiers. (In German) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Open-Source-Bundeswehr-baut-eigene-verschluesselte-Messenger-App-4623404.html

Dept of Servers 🏢

TravisR reported:

For those who want to integrate Matrix into their application with OAuth, there's now matrix-oauth ( #oauth:t2bot.io ). Ideally useful for "Login with Matrix" buttons, this is a relatively easy OAuth 2.0 provider to set up in front of your homeserver. In future it'll support more granular scopes to avoid having to give a real access token to the third party application. A demo of matrix-oauth in action is available at https://demo.oauth.t2host.io/

Dept of Bridges 🌉

Amazon Alexa skill

TravisR offered:

Yelling at your Amazon Alexa to send a message to your Matrix contacts is now possible with matrix-alexa-skill ( #alexa:t2bot.io ). A hosted version using matrix-oauth is coming soon, assuming I can get the privacy policy and such over to Amazon to review in a timely manner, though you're more than able to self-host in a matter of minutes. Check out the README for more info - some experience with setting up complicated things is required.

sorunome offered:

mx-puppet-bridge got a new feature: protocol implementations can now specify custom commands that are invoked via the provisioning room!

mx-puppet-discord received quite a few bug fixes and new features! Fix echo back of edits

[User Tokens] being friends is enough now to DM each other!

fix multi-edits

[User Tokens] support group DMs

Implement ability to bridge guilds!

[User Tokens] add friends management Description on how to use these features are found in the readme! If you enjoy these projects, please consider to donate. Thank you!

Dept of Clients 📱

Spectral gains public room directory

Black Hat reported:

Public room directory and user directory support in Spectral is finally there!

Continuum, plus koma library

yuforia offered:

koma, a Kotlin library. Dominic Fischer (github: Dominaezzz) started working on the project last week and so far: In preparation for multiplatform support, converted JVM code to agnostic Kotlin, using the library atomicfu

Added Github Actions configuration to run builds automatically Continuum, desktop client based on Koma: Generate room name from members when neither name nor aliases are configured

Dept of Ops 🛠

ma1sd 2.2.2 released

ma1uta announced:

ma1sd (fork of the mxisd) 2.2.2 released: https://github.com/ma1uta/ma1sd/releases/tag/2.2.2 Changes: bugfix

added hash lookup for the ldap provider.

Dept of Services 🚀

kapsi.fi has set up a Matrix homeserver

Cos reported:

Finnish non-profit hosting service kapsi.fi has set up a Matrix homeserver for their members. Kapsi has around 5000 members and 20 volunteer administrators. Instructions for use (in FInnish) at https://www.kapsi.fi/palvelut/matrix.html

Dept of Bots 🤖

MatrixVideo2oggBot

@progserega:rsprim.ru reported:

Matrix bot for converting youtube video to voice. Bot https://github.com/progserega/MatrixVideo2oggBot get youtube URL, download video, convert to ogg-vorbis audio and send it to user. Some times my friends give me youtube video-urls, but I do not have time for see it. But I have time when I go home in car. But on road network is not always good and at end of day battery is low and phone may be hot (when I connect to charger and play video) and freeze... Simple way for me - is convert youtube video to small size voice and download it to phone and play it as music in player playlist. Bot help to this. May be it help anybody also. 🙂

Matrix in the News 📰

Andres offered:

Matrix gets a mention alongside other four decentralized protocols in one of the biggest argentinian newspapers (regarding Twitter's iniciative of decentralization). https://www.lanacion.com.ar/tecnologia/cinco-iniciativas-descentralizar-redes-sociales-dejar-depender-nid2317548

Dept of Ping 🏓

Rank Hostname Median MS 1 getflexedon.me 211.5 2 thinker.eu.org 306 3 maunium.net 432 4 dodsorf.as 438 5 lyseo.edu.ouka.fi 455 6 matrix.vgorcum.com 562 7 uraziel.de 626 8 tout.im 640.5 9 kapsi.fi 650 10 encom.eu.org 862

That's all I know 🏁

See you next week, and be sure to stop by #twim:matrix.org with your updates!