Computer Science Student and Kubernetes & Matrix sucker from Magdeburg

Benjamin is a long-term software developer, lead, educator and organizer in the open source and decentralization space. Since organising RustFest in Berlin 2015, he has been developing in Rust, first at MaidSafe, then on the Substrate Blockchain Framework (for Parity Tech) and since November 2021 on Matrix, when he kicked off the development of 'Effektio', where he is leading development. Since February 2022 he is leading the Matrix Rust SDK team for New Vector/Element.

You can learn more about him, his projects and writing on his personal website at https://gnunicorn.org

Bram is the founder of Digital Justice, a small activist group that aims for interoperability, right to repair, abandonware continuity and other digital rights.

Bram is a programming teacher, he hosts the privacy committee of the Dutch Green party's youth organisation and he's the self-proclaimed world record holder of having the highest amount of successful rickrolls.

Charles Wright is the lead software engineer on the Circuli project at FUTO. His mission is to build secure, trustworthy apps to help regular people keep their families safe online. Before joining FUTO, Dr. Wright was a full-time academic researcher in security and privacy as an associate professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and as technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds MS and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University.

I've been a bridge developer of the Matrix.org bridges for the past 2.5 years. Besides the work on various Matrix integrations at Element, Matrix is a big passion of mine. I used to build my own chat bots before I joined Element and am one of the active founders of the Matrix Meetup and Matrix Summit in Berlin.

Seit 2,5 Jahren entwickle ich die matrix.org Chat-Brücken. Neben meiner Arbeit für Element, ist Matrix mir auch persönlich sehr wichtig. Schon vor meiner Anstellung habe ich Chatbots geschrieben und ich bin einer der Gründer des Matrix Meetups und Matrix Summits in Berlin.

Born 1990, started actively working in digitisng schools in 2004, always with student participation in mind.

As a friendly fork of the FrOSCon youth programme, founded Teckids in 2013, which is now superregionally active on everything involving free software, open technology, kids and education.

Engineering Manager at Element

Hangzhi Yu is currently doing his federal voluntary service at a Berlin NGO. He joined AlekSIS after he started developing software in one of the predecessor projects during his school days at the Katharineum in Lübeck and experienced in practice what an important contribution Free Software can make to good education. He is currently involved in the AlekSIS project as a full-stack developer and is particularly interested in making the user experience more intuitive and thus making everyday life in schools more comfortable.

Software Development, Matrix Development, Organizational Development.
I setup a company 15 years ago, Nordeck IT + Consulting GmbH, with now 50 employess - most of them working on Matrix. We develop Matrix Widgets and Contribute to Element and Jitsi. We are releasing our own Element Widgets as products OSS soon.
We are developing the Matrix and Videoconference Modules in the Phoenix Projekt and for the Souvereign Workplace for the public Sector in Germany together with Univention, OpenXchange, Nextcloud, Element and Collabora.
We are Member of the Open Source Business Alliance and on our way to become a self organized organization.

Yet another dev working of matrix

FOSS fascinated DJ, sysadmin and musician with a hang to solving problems with Python or Arduinos. First contacts to Matrix came via a colleauge’s private HS, followed by implementation of Jojo’s own use cases and finally seeing a corporate Synapse instance rise and fall. Besides synadm he is maintaining, co-maintaining and contributing to several Open Source projects, more often than not, related to music and DJing.

Jose Franco is an Open-source Real Time Communications enthusiast. He is keen on everything related to RTC in general. Founder and CTO of iKono Telecomunicaciones, a company based in Colombia with over ten years experience devoted to providing Corporate Communications and Contact Center solutions using open source alternatives.

Matrix.org enthusiast since 2017.

Author of matrix-webhook-receiver.

Contributor to Element, Hookshot, Matrix-Docker-Ansible-Deploy, simplematrixbotlib, matrix-reminder-bot, and more.

Maintainer of ttm on the AUR.

I'm happy to discuss the above and more, including maubot, nextcloud as media repo, building simple "cronjob" bots in Python or bash with apprise, maunium sticker picker and how to create gif stickers, matrix_daily_calendar (CalDAV), UnifiedPush, SchildiChat Android, and job opportunities with Matrix.

https://medienhaus.dev
https://twitter.com/medienhaus_
https://github.com/medienhaus/

Michael is a software craftsman at heart. After many years of consulting work, he currently is developing a messenger based on Matrix for the German health care system at Folivonet.

I am a freelance full-stack software engineer based in Hamburg, Germany. Before I was a developer I worked as an IT journalist for many years. I also run a small makerspace in Hamburg.

designer, UX specialist, nerd

I'm networkException, a developer, system administrator and maintainer depending on project and mood. I do open source work in my free time (or well, basically in all of my free time).

Sumner is a software engineer at Beeper working primarily on bridges, and an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Colorado School of Mines. He lives in Denver, Colorado, and enjoys skiing, volleyball, and soccer. He trains in ATA taekwondo, where he has a 4th degree black belt.

Computer Science student from Magdeburg (Germany).

I am kind of a matrix power-user and author of some Maubot plugins.

Some Synapse servers (work, university, private) are maintained by me. My private homeserver is keks.club

Drop me a message at @valentin:keks.club