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Today we launch a new fundraiser, talk about the scope of the Foundation's work, and begin to unpack our emerging roadmap for the future 🚀

There is a lot going on and we need your help to keep it going!

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A roadmap and appeal for help from The Matrix.org Foundation

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Josh Simmons (matrix.org)
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Frisk
Frisk
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Thank you for the post! One question has been irking me for a while now however, are there still plans to eventually depreciate matrix.org Matrix homeserver?

I remember someone involved in Matrix org saying that this was long-term goal in order to promote decentralization of Matrix by removing big one central point of it. However no communication since then indicated this being some kind of goal which makes me suspicious of my memory.

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The Matrix.org Foundation
The Matrix.org Foundation
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@Frisk Oh, excellent question, thank you!

You remember correctly, and we remain committed to slimming down and decentering the Matrix.org homeserver.

A forthcoming blog post will dive deeper into how we are going to do that. Big picture, we'll maintain the server for continuity and ease of adoption, but make _other servers_ much more prominent and invest in things like account migration, portability, and P2P Matrix.

@Frisk
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Lutin Discret
Lutin Discret
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> Element used to subsidize our activity, and still donates upwards of £3M in core development annually

Am I reading well? It's £3000000/year of donation by @element?

@Element
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Element
Element
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@lutindiscret yup; the majority of the Matrix core team is still employeed by Element to work on github.com/matrix-org/*. This works out at a cost of around £3M/y (even taking into account the fact that Element no longer donates its development on Synapse to the Foundation).
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Lutin Discret
Lutin Discret
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@element @tcit OK but I find it hard to grasp the whole picture as the article mix the foundation cash and the whole ecosystem "asset value". Thanks for the clarification.

£560K to be found 😨

@Element
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The Matrix.org Foundation
The Matrix.org Foundation
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@lutindiscret @element @tcit Great questions, and thanks all for helping to shine some light on the answers! We've already accomplished so much together, we feel confident we can clear the funding gap – but it will definitely take an ecosystem-wide effort.
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The Matrix.org Foundation
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@jzb There is, but it's not terribly discoverable so there's room for improvement on our end 😄

Our RSS feed is at: matrix.org/atom.xml

@Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)
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