[$] France enters the Matrix

Matrix is an open platform
for secure, decentralized, realtime communication. Matthew Hodgson,
the Matrix project leader, came to FOSDEM to describe Matrix and report on
its progress. Attendees learned
that it was within days
of having
a 1.0 release and found out how it got there. He also shed some light on
what happened when the French reached out to them to see if Matrix could
meet the internal messaging requirements of an entire national government.