# Events WG 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 include: - 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 infrastrucutre support e.g. acting as financial entity - keeping tabs on all events globally that might be relevant - 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/ future tasks? - outreach: making matrix attractive to get booked to events Initial members: Robin R, Thib, Yan, Nadine, Kim Chair: Thib? Vice: GB sponsor: Kim