Benjamin "Ben" Kampmann
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
Sessions
In this workshop we will be setting up our very own minimal matrix bot using the brand-new rust-sdk. This is a type-along workshop, so please make sure you have the setup ready for it when we start.
This technical talk will present to you the Matrix Rust SDK, the upcoming new core of all Element Products. We will cover the goal of the project, the current state and its future.
We'd like to present to you Effektio - your pocket organizer - a mobile-first community organizing app, we have been developing the last couple of month. In particular we'd like to take a peak under the hood and understand how the project uses matrix internally to implement an entire organizing app ontop of the matrix protocol.
With Call, ThirdRoom and Effektio, where is matrix heading? Let's take a peak into the lower layers and from there image what else will be possible in the future of matrix. Will it become the next generation of "the web"?