joshsimmons

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by joshsimmons 2y ago
Following up, we at Matrix.org have put out a blog post to clarify that this is unrelated: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-netw... Grateful to NL Times who included this line in their
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Coincidentally when I logged in to my account, for the first time in years, they also pulled my reviews. I got one email for each of them, saying: "Our moderators evaluate each review to determine whether it complies with our Community
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
As the Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation I can assure you I'd love nothing more than to displace centralized, proprietary communication tools. It just so happens that right now it's easier to land with folks who are p
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
We definitely have work to do on the onboarding experience, but I'm pleased to say that there are 115M addressable users on the open federation – so many people are having great success once they get past the initial friction. Aside fr
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Likewise, glad for these discussions. Even if it's a bit uncomfortable to be on the receiving end, this kind of feedback is a gift. Please do share more about your experiences, we're all ears and looking to learn and improve! BTW,
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Thanks for continuing to give Matrix a try! There are rough edges, for sure. I'm excited to hear what you think the next time you give it a spin – your experience is valuable feedback for us.
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Element != the Matrix.org Foundation. Element relicensed Synapse. The Foundation is running a fundraiser. I'm a little confused about your comment "AGPL for me, but not for thee." Can you unpack that a bit? Synapse is availab
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing your concerns. I think we need to start right at square 0: Element is not the same as the Matrix.org Foundation, and the Foundation has not had layoffs or a reduction in scale. We did EOL the public Libera.Chat<-&
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Thanks for noticing :) Doing my best to make sure everyone who is invested in these things gets the information they want and need.
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Thank you for your work in the Matrix ecosystem, and for your support!
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Check your facts. Matrix remains an open protocol, under open source license, with open governance, stewarded by a nonprofit. And there remain multiple open source server implementations and clients. As useful as Cory Doctorow's concep
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
As the Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation it is expected that I conduct myself with some level of decorum. So, exercising all due restraint, I say this: your statement is unmoored from reality. I thank @camgunz for chiming in an
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
I really appreciate you sharing your concerns, and for all the hope and energy you've put into Matrix to date. Very much to your point, we're not yet in a state where I recommend Matrix to friends and family. Right now I only use
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
That is definitely a thing that Matrix has, all the more so because it's a decentralized protocol and many deployments federate with each other.
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
I suspect many people _did_ find other ways to connect (indeed I fired my IRC Cloud subscription back up...), but that's not what ultimately brought us* to this decision. Really it came down to not having the funds or staff time to mai
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
There are a number of open source events, projects, and foundations that primarily communicate on Matrix, and no surprise it seems particularly common among projects that build on federated technologies (eg ActivityPub-based projects). That
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Hi there! Managing Director of the Foundation here. First, yes, the response times have not been great, though of course that's all been on the basis of volunteerism. Now that there's a full-time staffer you should expect better r
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Hi there! I'm the Managing Director of the Foundation. That owing balance is down to the many services for which we rely on Element. The Foundation has a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Element which includes administrative servic
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Thank you for being a donor! Naturally, you can expect us to eventually publish an annual report that details revenue, expenses, and programmatic activities. At a high level, the payments to Element includes administrative services (account
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
The Foundation has a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Element which includes administrative services (accounting, legal, etc), operation of the matrix.org homeserver, and secondment of several personnel whose responsibilities include ad
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Yeah, that was surely an error. The value most definitely would have changed.
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
I've published my official response over on GitHub, where I provide context and answer the specific questions the OP has asked: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/571#issueco... I'm co
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
I get that we're operating in a low trust environment, and you don't yet have any reason to trust me. I will say this: I'm not here to carry water for past performance. I _am_ here to build the foundation into the organizatio
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by joshsimmons 3y ago
Thanks for the tag on the GitHub issue and for being a persistent advocate for transparency. Transparency is something we should expect from any open source foundation, and I am committed to delivering on that as the Foundation's first
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by joshsimmons 8y ago
Hi there! I work in the Google Open Source Programs Office. Echoing what others have said, it's usually just a matter of an engineer or team deciding it's something they want to do. Other times, it's a strategic choice. We op
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by joshsimmons 8y ago
Fair question :-) And the answer is no, you would not need OSI's permission to call your project open source -- because you'd be using the MIT license which has been reviewed and approved by the OSI. You can find the list of appro
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by joshsimmons 8y ago
Open source is a term of art with an agreed upon definition, and it has been for 20 years which, not-so-coincidentally, is also when the Open Source Initiative was founded. The fact that you've never heard of OSI means we've been
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