# Blog

> Updates from the Plauder.Party team

Updates from the Plauder.Party team


News on development, infrastructure, and community.


## Pages in this section
- [Welcome to Plauder.Party](https://plauder.party/en/blog/welcome.md): Launch announcement: Plauder.Party is an open community chat on Matrix with Cinny and LiveKit, hosted in Germany / the EU.
- [Our open-source stack](https://plauder.party/en/blog/open-source-stack.md): Plauder.Party stack explained: Matrix for interoperable chat, Cinny as the client, LiveKit for voice and video — all inspectable and self-hostable.