[00:00.000 --> 00:12.000]  Welcome to the first ever in real life matrix dev room.
[00:12.000 --> 00:21.000]  Who would have thought we would get there when we came here for the first time in 2015?
[00:21.000 --> 00:25.000]  Honestly, a little bit of a surprise.
[00:25.000 --> 00:32.000]  But hey, this is really cool that we're back in one physical place at last after these three years of being stuck in matrix.
[00:32.000 --> 00:38.000]  So we have to do this bit because people might either be really lost in the room right now,
[00:38.000 --> 00:43.000]  or they might be viewing this online and have no idea what they're getting into.
[00:43.000 --> 00:45.000]  So Avondine, what is matrix?
[00:45.000 --> 00:51.000]  So as you can read, it's an open network for secure and decentralized real-time communications.
[00:51.000 --> 01:00.000]  A lot of you probably know it for chat and voiceover IP, but we can do many things on matrix as we will see today.
[01:00.000 --> 01:07.000]  Of course, the chat, the voiceover IP, IOT and then VR, 3D worlds, etc.
[01:07.000 --> 01:09.000]  And we should probably introduce ourselves.
[01:09.000 --> 01:13.000]  I'm Matthew, I'm the technical project leads and co-founder.
[01:13.000 --> 01:17.000]  And I'm Avondine, I'm a matrix co-founder.
[01:17.000 --> 01:24.000]  Basically, the responsible person who tries to keep everything on track and let me play with computers.
[01:24.000 --> 01:30.000]  So our mission, slightly changing it this year actually, because I think we're kind of converging on matrix,
[01:30.000 --> 01:34.000]  trying to be the real-time communication layer of the open web.
[01:34.000 --> 01:40.000]  It's kind of the idea all along and it's under the bit over the top to put it in writing when we began.
[01:40.000 --> 01:44.000]  But the reality is increasingly that's where things are moving towards.
[01:44.000 --> 01:52.000]  You can say that I know activity pub is more of a real-time micro-blogging or information sharing layer, RSS and steroids.
[01:52.000 --> 01:59.000]  Whereas with matrix, we're really trying to go as low latency as we will be talking about in a few minutes.
[01:59.000 --> 02:05.000]  And sort of real-time instant messaging, whatever on top.
[02:05.000 --> 02:09.000]  So the way it works, we said decentralized, we didn't lie.
[02:09.000 --> 02:15.000]  A bunch of servers who can talk to one another, a bunch of clients attached to the servers in green on the graph.
[02:15.000 --> 02:19.000]  But the key thing with matrix, it's called matrix for a reason.
[02:19.000 --> 02:22.000]  It's because it's matrixing all the different networks out there.
[02:22.000 --> 02:26.000]  There is when we created it, we didn't think everyone would jump on it like this.
[02:26.000 --> 02:35.000]  We thought that the interesting and the intelligent thing to do is probably to connect all the existing things so everyone could benefit from it.
[02:35.000 --> 02:43.000]  The name matrix came from basically a conversation where we said, hey, it would be really cool if there was a name like matrix
[02:43.000 --> 02:48.000]  that we could use to describe this kind of substrate in which all these different things could be embedded.
[02:48.000 --> 02:54.000]  Like matrix comes from Latin, where it means uterus, where things grow, where you go and embed things.
[02:54.000 --> 02:58.000]  And it's where the word mother and matron comes from and maternal.
[02:58.000 --> 03:03.000]  And we thought that would be a pretty cool thing to kind of describe the idea of linking it all together.
[03:03.000 --> 03:06.000]  But no, we obviously couldn't call it matrix because of the film.
[03:06.000 --> 03:11.000]  Then we realized that the film came out 15 years earlier and that was already what, eight years ago.
[03:11.000 --> 03:17.000]  And so for, hey, we'll use it anyway.
[03:17.000 --> 03:23.000]  And we did. And also matrix.org used to be a really nasty website and so it was available.
[03:23.000 --> 03:26.000]  What are the stats looking like?
[03:26.000 --> 03:34.000]  Basically, there has been 87 million users registered in the whole matrix network until today.
[03:34.000 --> 03:36.000]  So it's growing quite nicely.
[03:36.000 --> 03:39.000]  The thing is, these are only users we can see and know of.
[03:39.000 --> 03:46.000]  So a whole bunch of them are probably just hiding into big closed network which are not connected and never talk to us.
[03:46.000 --> 03:50.000]  Yeah, so I mean, just for full transparency on this graph, which we show a lot.
[03:50.000 --> 03:56.000]  And it's obvious, I mean, the important thing is the shape of the graph rather than necessarily the absolute numbers.
[03:56.000 --> 04:01.000]  Because this is actually based on the phone home stats that Synapse has in it.
[04:01.000 --> 04:06.000]  So there aren't any dandrites or constructs or conduits and flying around in here.
[04:06.000 --> 04:10.000]  Also, it is literally total MX IDs that server has ever seen.
[04:10.000 --> 04:14.000]  So it is including bridged users, it's including guests, et cetera.
[04:14.000 --> 04:21.000]  And the way to think of it is that literally half of these are actually bridged and then about another half of them are guests.
[04:21.000 --> 04:27.000]  So if you wanted the non-guest actually registered fully signed up users, it's possibly reducing it by a quarter.
[04:27.000 --> 04:30.000]  But we prefer the bigger number.
[04:30.000 --> 04:36.000]  Sometimes it's going to be larger than the number of humans on the planet and then it's going to start looking a little bit awkward.
[04:36.000 --> 04:42.000]  It still means it's people you can talk to on matrix if they're connected, but so yeah, they're actual users.
[04:42.000 --> 04:48.000]  So I think for one, we'll be reaching out to guests 4445442 on matrix.org from September 2013.
[04:48.000 --> 04:55.000]  The other small stat on the corner is across at least 100,000 deployments, again, that we know of,
[04:55.000 --> 05:02.000]  and it ranges from Raspberry Pis, which I'm sure many of you have in the room, all the way up to matrix.org.
[05:02.000 --> 05:10.000]  And it's like 13, 14 million users and when the middle servers for enterprises, governments and anyone basically,
[05:10.000 --> 05:12.000]  all sorts of sites.
[05:12.000 --> 05:15.000]  And again, disclaimer on the stat here for 100,000 servers.
[05:15.000 --> 05:21.000]  This is based on looking at the destinations table on matrix.org, which is about 50,000 at the moment,
[05:21.000 --> 05:27.000]  and doubling it based on the number of servers which we can't see out there on the network.
[05:27.000 --> 05:28.000]  So who uses it?
[05:28.000 --> 05:30.000]  I'm going to seriously go through all of these logos.
[05:30.000 --> 05:36.000]  We've only got like three minutes before Jan Rubby tackles us off the stage.
[05:36.000 --> 05:43.000]  Well, we've put just a bunch of logos out there. So obviously, yes, I hope you've been following fast them on matrix.
[05:43.000 --> 05:47.000]  And hello to everyone out there who is currently streaming from matrix.
[05:47.000 --> 05:51.000]  So we're always very proud to be hosting fast them waves to the camera. Hello.
[05:51.000 --> 05:57.000]  I was looking for it and a whole bunch of different projects that hopefully,
[05:57.000 --> 06:05.000]  you know, a whole bunch of cluster of governments out there who made the right choice and went for data sovereignty.
[06:05.000 --> 06:11.000]  I mean, it's a bit crazy that I mean, we've missed out some of the sort of companies who we know use it.
[06:11.000 --> 06:21.000]  But honestly, a large number are like governments, whether that's France or Germany, Germany, again, UK, NATO, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ukraine,
[06:21.000 --> 06:23.000]  or open source projects.
[06:23.000 --> 06:27.000]  It's not the most obvious mix, but there's a huge footprint obviously on both sides,
[06:27.000 --> 06:33.000]  but also a bunch of companies obviously probably including people in the room using it to apologize if your local country is not on here.
[06:33.000 --> 06:40.000]  And if it isn't on here, but you don't use matrix, stop using teams and get on board.
[06:40.000 --> 06:44.000]  In terms of vital stats, where to start?
[06:44.000 --> 06:48.000]  Colgen.io. If people don't know Colgen.io, it's really good.
[06:48.000 --> 06:51.000]  You basically just give it a get hub or a get lab repository.
[06:51.000 --> 06:53.000]  I'm sorry, organization. And it goes on spiders.
[06:53.000 --> 06:59.000]  The whole thing puts an elastic search and gives you the elastic search kind of credentials to go in and do whatever you want with the stats.
[06:59.000 --> 07:07.000]  So this is looking at it from 2014 with a number of committers, number of issues and reviews.
[07:07.000 --> 07:11.000]  I'm not sure what happened with our reviews in 2020, but there was a mad reviewing frenzy.
[07:11.000 --> 07:12.000]  COVID.
[07:12.000 --> 07:16.000]  Oh yeah, yeah, people got really bored and reviewed all their PRs at last.
[07:16.000 --> 07:19.000]  But yeah, some of the stats as we got 4,000 committers.
[07:19.000 --> 07:27.000]  If you sum all of the get hub stars over the matrix, the organization, it comes to over 50,000 and we're not double counting anybody there at all.
[07:27.000 --> 07:31.000]  And loads of clients. 40 is way more than that.
[07:31.000 --> 07:33.000]  I should have reviewed this.
[07:33.000 --> 07:35.000]  I tried to figure out.
[07:35.000 --> 07:37.000]  My preferred one is this one.
[07:37.000 --> 07:40.000]  Like we have projects with over 30 different programming languages.
[07:40.000 --> 07:43.000]  We're getting almost kicked out, Matthew.
[07:43.000 --> 07:45.000]  Okay, we've got two minutes. We're just going to talk.
[07:45.000 --> 07:46.000]  Easy, easy.
[07:46.000 --> 07:51.000]  So yes, 30 programming languages from everywhere, all sorts, and that's really fun.
[07:51.000 --> 07:57.000]  So today's menu, lots of talks. We're not going to go through them because we have a QR code, plus you already know it's probably sitting here.
[07:57.000 --> 07:58.000]  Or you're looking at it on the internet.
[07:58.000 --> 08:02.000]  We've got a URL that nobody will be able to see, but it's the same as the one on the platform there.
[08:02.000 --> 08:07.000]  And also follow along on, yeah, the schedules there, but follow along on matrix.
[08:07.000 --> 08:12.000]  There are going to be people out there in the void who we should connect with physically and create a proper hybrid room.
[08:12.000 --> 08:13.000]  Welcome.
[08:13.000 --> 08:14.000]  Woo.
[08:14.000 --> 08:16.000]  Welcome. Hope you will have fun.
[08:16.000 --> 08:17.000]  Yeah.
[08:20.000 --> 08:21.000]  And over to Florian.
[08:21.000 --> 08:43.000]  Thank you.