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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion content/blog/2014/09/2014-09-09-techcrunch-update.md
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Expand Up @@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ The Matrix team is at <a href="http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2014/">T

Please come talk to us in person in Startup Alley (next to the Brazilian Pavilion) if you're attending Disrupt and find out all about Matrix first hand!

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Some general nit: the other classes are also non existent. Why didnt they get removed?

also how about using the figure shortcode instead like in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/blob/main/CONTENT.md#adding-pictures-in-your-post ?

also wondering about how feasible it would be to use the zola relative link syntax instead https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/linking/#internal-links or at least regular relative links instead of having https://matrix.org hardcoded as this technially also breaks the cloudflare previews. Though not sure how relevant that in reality is for the old posts.

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(Photo shows us somehow surviving in the 6am slot. Mental note to never try to do raycasting vector maths after being up for 24 hours again...)
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## Matthew

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/me.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-162" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/me-257x300.jpg" alt="Matthew Hodgson" width="128" height="150" /></a>
<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/me.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/me-257x300.jpg" alt="Matthew Hodgson" width="128" height="150" /></a>

Matthew Hodgson is technical co-founder of matrix.org, responsible for defining Matrix's vision with Amandine and moving obstacles out of the way of the team in order to build it. Matthew has spent the last 15 years mainly designing and building various communication solutions on top of an alarming array of different technologies (IRC, IM, NNTP, IMAP, IAX, SIP/RTP, RTMP, XMPP... and now Matrix).

Matthew's day job is running the Unified Communications team at Amdocs, creating communication apps for large mobile network operators (e.g. <a href="http://blah.com">Blah</a> for TIM Brasil). Previously he ran "The Next Generation" telephony/media team at MX Telecom (acquired by Amdocs in 2010), building a highly distributed SIP softswitch and mobile-optimised WebRTC-compatible graph-based media framework and VoIP stack to power MX's voice and video services. Matthew has also been known to dabble in sysadmin (running MX Telecom's sysadmin team), dubious graphic design and CGI, and wishes he had more time to play piano. He has a degree in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Cambridge, and has previously worked at Accenture, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, <a href="http://www.theonering.net">TheOneRing.net</a> as well as misguidedly co-founding a digital marketing startup in Bahrain. [<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6841469">LinkedIn</a>]

## Amandine

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/am.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-163" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/am.jpg" alt="Amandine Le Pape" width="128" height="150" /></a>
<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/am.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/am.jpg" alt="Amandine Le Pape" width="128" height="150" /></a>

Amandine Le Pape is business co-founder of matrix.org, responsible for defining the Matrix vision with Matthew and then organising the non-technical activities required to support and promote it and make it successful.

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Expand Up @@ -13,23 +13,23 @@ So you'll find here a summary of the 4 events Matrix attended in September and O

##### Disrupt San Francisco (September 6-10)

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6am.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-191" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IMG_48491-300x225.jpg" alt="IMG_4849[1]" width="300" height="225" /></a> <a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6am.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-138 size-medium" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6am-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>
<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6am.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IMG_48491-300x225.jpg" alt="IMG_4849[1]" width="300" height="225" /></a> <a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6am.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6am-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>

<a href="http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2014/event-home/">Disrupt SF</a> was the launchpad of Matrix! We participated in the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-hackathon-2014/">Hackathon </a>as both a sponsor and a competitor (see our live <a title="Techcrunch Update!" href="http://matrix.org/blog/2014/09/09/techcrunch-update/">update</a>!), and exhibited at the conference as a Product Sponsor.

Three teams announced that they were using Matrix to build their hack but eventually only <a href="http://challengepost.com/software/go-social">Go Social</a> presented their project: a social network for travelers with a very nice UI! Go Social used Matrix APIs to add chat to their platform. The video of Go Social's presentation is <a href="http://techcrunch.com/video/go-social-presents-disrupt-sf-2014-hackathon/518404022/">here</a>.

Matrix team worked on <a href="http://challengepost.com/software/animatrix">Animatrix</a>: a chat app allowing you to build your own 3D animated cartoon and share it with any other friend using Matrix-compliant app using Unify. We had to hack together a basic Matrix Android client in order to do the demo .... You can see our project's presentation <a href="http://techcrunch.com/video/animatrix-presents-disrupt-sf-2014-hackathon/518404216/">here</a>!

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The three days conference was great in terms of reaching out to devs and getting good feedback on Matrix! We love seeing people's eyes lighting up and people saying "Eventually someone is doing it!" when we explain what Matrix is about :) So thank you all for your support!

##### Disrupt Europe (London, UK - October 18-21)

After getting public in SF, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-eu/event-home/">Disrupt London </a>was the next steps to release a more stable version of Matrix and encourage even more people to build on Matrix. Again we sponsored both the Hackathon and the Conference and we brought with us a very cool <a href="http://www.trossenrobotics.com/phantomx-ax-hexapod.aspx" target="_blank">PhantomX robot from Trossen Robotics</a> which was also the price we gave away during the hackathon.

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Two teams pitched a Matrix project at the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-europe-hackathon-2014-london/">Hackathon </a>this time:

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The first day was the WebRTC Summit where the focus was on the challenges and next steps of the standard. Matthew presented Matrix explained how it can be used as the missing signaling layer to WebRTC raising lots of questions and interest. You can see the presentation <a title="Matrix, the missing link to WebRTC" href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-03-Matrix_Missing-Link_IOT.pdf">here</a>.

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/photo.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-201 aligncenter" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/photo-300x225.jpg" alt="photo" width="300" height="225" /></a>
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The two next days were focusing more on <a href="http://www.gsma.com/network2020/rcs/" target="_blank">Rich Communication Services </a>(RCS) and again Matrix didn't go unnoticed, and not only because of the lightspeed presentation from Matthew waking everyone up on Wednesday morning! This time Matthew addressed Telcos and RCS vendors with the compelling proposition of using Matrix as the bridge between RCS/IMS/PSTN and the world of over-the-top applications.  The presentation is downloadable <a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-10-29-OTT-Federation-Strategies.pdf">here</a>.

Again some great feedback and lots of animated discussions over the future of the IP communication world!

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/apex.png"><img class="wp-image-202 aligncenter" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/apex-300x176.png" alt="apex" width="406" height="238" /></a>
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##### WebRTC Summit (Santa Clara - November 4-5)

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<li>Start a chat with @vucbot:matrix.org by entering the ID in the appropriate textfield at the bottom of the public rooms list on <a href="http://matrix.org/beta">http://matrix.org/beta</a> and click on "Message User"</li>
<li>In the chat room start a voice call by clicking on the mic icon in the top right corner. Don't forget to allow your browser to access your mic and speakerphones!</li>
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But he still found a few minutes to do a TV interview for SYSCon TV on Tuesday evening! :)

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## TAD Summit (Istanbul, November 12-13)

Matrix was a partner at <a href="http://tadsummit.com/2014/">TAD Summit</a> in Istanbul this year, a great opportunity to meet a very good mix of developers, industry players and mobile networks! TAD mixes conferences and technical workshops where everyone gets involved to create a vibrant ecosystem for Telecom Application Developers. Again really productive discussions and meetings as we continue our search for partners to help support the uptake of Matrix.

Matthew's talk was fully recorded so just watch the video to get the real pitch!

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## WebRTC World (San Jose, November 18-20)

Matrix's attendance at <a href="http://www.webrtcworld.com/conference/west/default.aspx">WebRTC World</a> in San Jose was more rewarding than expected! The team was ready to be part of the expo and give a talk on FOSS WebRTC options... but didn't hesitate to jump at the opportunity when a demo slot opened up! And that was a worthwhile decision as Matrix ended up winning not one but<strong> TWO awards from the demo:</strong> The <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Audience Choice Award</strong></span>
as the audience's favourite demo of the 10 shown on Tuesday, and also the overall <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Best Social Integration Award</strong> </span>
from the Jury! So a big congrats to the dev team who were rushing to get the fine details ready in time and to Matthew for getting the audience's attention! And of course a even bigger thank you to everyone who voted for us, including in the Jury!

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sj.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-239" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sj-300x168.jpg" alt="Matthew at WebRTC World 2014" width="300" height="168" /></a>
<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sj.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sj-300x168.jpg" alt="Matthew at WebRTC World 2014" width="300" height="168" /></a>

Of course this drew lots of interest, and WebRTC Expo ended up the busiest show ever for the team who pitched solidly at the booth for 2 days in a row!
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Audience_Choice_14.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-240" style="box-shadow: none ! important;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Audience_Choice_14.png" alt="Audience_Choice_14" width="300" height="229" /></a> <a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Best_Social_Integration_14.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-241" style="box-shadow: none ! important;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Best_Social_Integration_14.png" alt="Best_Social_Integration_14" width="300" height="229" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Audience_Choice_14.png"><img class="size-full" style="box-shadow: none ! important;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Audience_Choice_14.png" alt="Audience_Choice_14" width="300" height="229" /></a> <a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Best_Social_Integration_14.png"><img class="size-medium" style="box-shadow: none ! important;" src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Best_Social_Integration_14.png" alt="Best_Social_Integration_14" width="300" height="229" /></a></div>

## fOSSa (Rennes, November 20)

And eventually, while Matthew and John were celebrating in San José (or flying home, more accurately), Amandine was also evangelising at home in Rennes (France), where <a href="https://fossa.inria.fr/">fOSSa </a>was gathering experts from the opensource world for 3 days. Matrix was presented within the Serendipity section on the conférence, "Le Carrefour des Possibles": 6 minutes to pitch an open project that making dreams possible.

So if you speak French or are not afraid to only read from <a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-17.2-Matrix.pdf">the slides</a>, check out the video the team made of the pitch. The official one should be available soon!

[embed]http://youtu.be/DyL9Ue0KlBU[/embed]
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And we're very proud to say that we won the <a href="http://blog.uppersideconferences.com/award-winners-webrtc-2014-conference-expo/">Best Innovation Award</a> for a slightly frantic demo, showing an iPad mounted on our pet Trossen Robotics PhantomX Hexapod being used for robot telepresence by streaming video and audio to an Oculus Rift VR headset. This was using our proprietary in-house WebRTC stack, but once Matrix has fully taken off we hope to share our WebRTC stack with the world too :) This was a very last minute demo - we wanted to show something different to normal browser-to-browser IM/Video calling via Matrix and had the idea to use the Rift at the last minute - and in fact it still wasn't working when we went on stage (turns out that iOS 8.1 introduces some quirks in the video capture API which were producing corrupt video). By switching from an iPhone 5S running iOS 8.1 to an iPad running iOS 6 we were able to turn the demo around in the nick of time and get it working live on stage (modulo a RGB<->BGR colourspace bug) just in time to win the award. Huge thanks to the jury for voting for us against the odds :D For those interested in displaying raw video straight onto the Oculus Rift (without using any head-mounted tracking), there's an OpenGL code snippet up at <a href="https://gist.github.com/ara4n/875b5e8b66be3617efb7">https://gist.github.com/ara4n/875b5e8b66be3617efb7</a>.

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/oculus.jpg"><img src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/oculus-1024x764.jpg" alt="iOS to Oculus Rift Telepresence" width="625" height="466" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-262" /></a>
<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/oculus.jpg"><img src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/oculus-1024x764.jpg" alt="iOS to Oculus Rift Telepresence" width="625" height="466" class="aligncenter size-large" /></a>

(Image credit to <a href="https://twitter.com/victorpascual/status/545247282212667393">Victor Pascual Avila</a> at Quobis)

Also, huge congratulations to <a href="https://twitter.com/VladimirTechMan/status/545550432542916608">Vladimir Beloborodov</a> who won the Best Data Channel Award for hacking his Romotive telepresence robot to rendezvous via Matrix with his iPad, stream video via Google's WebRTC stack and control the robot's motion via the WebRTC Data Channel:

<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vladimir.jpg"><img src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vladimir.jpg" alt="Vladimir Beloborodov" width="600" height="800" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-263" /></a>
<a href="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vladimir.jpg"><img src="http://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vladimir.jpg" alt="Vladimir Beloborodov" width="600" height="800" class="aligncenter size-full" /></a>

We're really excited to see other folks' Matrix projects out there winning prizes!
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We'll post another blog post shortly to give a lot more information; in the interim you can read more about it in the newly updated spec at <a href="http://matrix.org/docs/spec/#application-service-api">http://matrix.org/docs/spec/#application-service-api</a>.

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