Events WG

Charter

Purpose

The Events Working Group is an outreach arm of The Matrix Foundation. It is the main organising team of the official events hosted by the Foundation, such as The Matrix Conference or co-hosting FOSDEM Fringe, as well as official appearances at other conferences, e.g. the FOSDEM booth and devroom. The WG also acts as first contact point for similar community endeavours, e.g. inquiries related to the Matrix Community Summit, or the FrOSCon Matrix Community devroom, and tries to foster an ecosystem of decentralised events and user groups.

Typical Tasks

• issue CfP, curation of talks, schedule building, pretalx
• call for volunteers to staff events, shift assignment
• merch
  • official merch available for sale/giveaway at event
  • stickers available for giveaway
  • event-specific, e.g. team shirts
• design input
• promotion & marketing, sponsoring, ticketing, pretix
• coordinate video recording, podcasting, etc.
• support community events
  • Foundation-sponsored merch/stickers
  • helpful hints how we handle running an event
  • handling infrastructure support e.g. acting as financial entity
• keeping tabs on all events globally that might be relevant
  • for our own events to not collide with them
  • to potentially participate in the future
  • their CfPs etc
• develop/maintain tooling/docs for running events on Matrix (pretix bot, FOSDEM widget, …)
• maintain a knowledgebase at https://handbook.matrix.org/
• make Matrix attractive to get invited to events

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