XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF)

The XMPP Standards Foundation (also known as the XSF and formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

The XSF also provides information and infrastructure to the worldwide community of Jabber/XMPP developers, service providers, and end users. In addition, the XSF administers the Jabber Trademark Licensing Program.

At the core of the XSF is its elected Membership who, in turn, elect a Council (the technical leadership) and Board (the business leadership). The Board also appoints various work teams and roles.

The Board

The Board of Directors of the XMPP Standards Foundation oversees the business affairs of the organisation. As elected by the XSF membership, the Board of Directors consists of the following individuals:

• Edward Maurer is working in engineering automation (energy sector, non-XMPP) and is volunteering in XMPP since more than five years already. Since 2020 he is thriving the XSF Communication Team. Besides successfully supporting the XMPP Community and its projects he is co-author of XMPP Providers. Find the contact and details in the XMPP wiki profile.
• Matthew Wild is a founder of the Prosody XMPP server project and a number of smaller XMPP projects. Matthew has been a member of the XMPP Council since 2009, has authored and co-authored various XEPs and helps maintain the Jabber.org IM service.
• Nicola Fabiano is an Italian lawyer and adjunct professor at Ostrava university (Rome). Former president of the San Marino data protection authority. Former national expert for the republic of San Marino on the committees of the council of Europe Convention No. 108 and ad hoc committee on artificial intelligence. He has been the government of the republic of San Marino’s advisor for drafting legislation on personal data protection. Nicola Fabiano created the Data Protection and Privacy Relationships Model (DAPPREMO) based on high-mathematics and set theory. Author of articles, essays, books, and papers.
• Peter Saint-Andre is a semi-retired technologist who has been involved with the Jabber/XMPP community since late 1999, including many years as Executive Director. Although he currently advises several tech companies, he is mainly focused on a startup that offers training to early- and mid-career managers.
• Ralph Meijer is the lead developer of several Jabber-related projects and services, including Wokkel and the XMPP support in Twisted, the Idavoll pubsub component, and Planet Jabber. Ralph has been member of the XMPP Council from 2004 to 2013 and Director since 2013. You can find him on Twitter and chat with him on XMPP.

The Council

The XMPP Council is the technical steering group that approves XMPP Extension Protocols. The Council is governed by the XSF Bylaws and XEP-0001, as augmented by various policies and procedures.

The Council is elected by the members of the XMPP Standards Foundation. In the interest of transparency, chatroom logs and mailing list archives are available (anyone can subscribe to the mailing list, but only Council members can post). The Council meets once a week in a chatroom - anyone can join in, comments from the floor are welcome.

The Council consists of the following individuals:

• Dan Caseley is a regular contributor to the Openfire project, and an author and contributor in Openfire’s plugin ecosystem. Initially involved in XMPP implementations at work, Dan is now a contributor in both his professional and personal life as part of the OSS community.
• Daniel Gultsch is the maintainer of the Android client Conversations and operates an XMPP domain hosting service. He has also (co-) created several XEPs. Contact information can be found on his website.
• Marvin Wissfeld is one of the maintainers of the XMPP client Dino. He has contributed to several XEPs and various free software projects related to XMPP.
• Stephen Paul Weber is one of the maintainers at the Sopranica Project which includes the Cheogram Services and Client and also JMP. Feel free to contact him via his Jabber ID.
• Travis Burtrum is a programmer who works on various XMPP projects such as xmpp-proxy and sendxmpp-rs, among others. He is author of XEP-0368 and XEP-0418. Feel free to contact him via XMPP.