The Matrix Conference 2026

Christian Paul

Christian worked at Element, Nordeck and Polychat, developing and operating Matrix AppServies, bots and clients.
He is one of the founders of the Matrix Community Summits in Berlin, helped with booths and dev rooms at FOSDEM and FrOSCon, interviewed community members for the Matrix Salon Podcast and exchanged knowledge at the annual Matrix Workations in Austria.

To make his job a bit easier, he started developing his side project Matrix Wrench in 2021. As most of his hobby work, it's published under an open-source license for the entire Matrix ecosystem to use and benefit from.

His other tech hobbies include Web of Things, OpenStreetMap and self-hosting.


Session

10-22
14:15
25min
Matrix Wrench - a admin tool for operators and community managers
Christian Paul

Are you operating a large server, bridge or bot? Are you managing lots of spaces or rooms?
Do you sometimes need to modify rooms outside of your regular account?
Try Matrix Wrench. It's is a powerful, open-source web app to view and edit room states. It works with access tokens from users and AppServices.

In Practice
Peter