The XMPP Standards Foundation

2013 Q1 Membership Voting is happening now!

bear — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:44:24 +0000

Alex has started the membership voting process (big shout-out and thanks to Lance for getting the bot updated!) and would love it if all the current members chat with the memberbot and vote on the 2013 Q1 membership applications.

Proxy voting will continue until the close of business on May 1st with the meeting to follow on May 2nd.

XMPP at PyCon 2013

bear — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:31:22 +0000

Arc, Lance and Ralph are all at PyCon 2013 and today they were showing off XMPP and Python at one of the “poster sessions”. Nicely done!

Jitsi 2.0 Now Released!

Ludovic BOCQUET — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:28:12 +0000

With support for audio and video calls, Jitsi has long had one of the richest Jingle implementations. Now the project has added even more on top of that: Multiparty Video Conferencing.

One of the most prominent new features in the 2.0 release is Multiparty Video Conferencing. Such conferences can work in an ad-hoc mode where one of the clients relays video to everyone else, or in cases that require scalability, Jitsi can use the Jitsi Videobridge: an RTP relaying server controlled over XMPP. That control happens through COLIBRI, a new XMPP extension that the Jitsi community developed for the purpose and that we hope to see submitted as a XEP in the following weeks.

Other interesting features in the new release include support for XEP-0308 (Last Message Correction), support for Opus, VP8 and integration with Microsoft Outlook for presence and calls.

Check out the full announcement and change log at: https://jitsi.org/
You can download Jitsi from: https://jitsi.org/Main/Download

XMPP Summit 13 is complete

bear — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:57:27 +0000

The XSF recently held the XMPP Summit 13 in Brussels this past week, specifically January 31 and February 1, 2013 — and truth be told we are all exhausted and amazed at how much discussion and planning can happen in two days when you get a bunch of bright, smart folks in the same room.

We would like to thank again our sponsors, who really stood up and helped make the event a success:

Cisco for providing the space and meals for the two days
Isode Ltd.
&Yet
AG Software
buddycloud
Jitsi
Surevine
Tilanus

Note: found this while working on another post – apologies for the delay!

The FOSDEM Schedule Is Set

stpeter — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:08:30 +0000

The schedule for the Jabber/XMPP devroom at FOSDEM 2013 is now final. Visit https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/jabber/ for the details and http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/FOSDEM_2013 for more information about our involvement with FOSDEM 2013.

XMPP Summit 13 in Brussels

stpeter — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:06:42 +0000

This is just a quick note to inform you that the XSF will hold its 13th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium on January 31 and February 1, 2013. This is Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM 2013. Details are on the wiki at http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_13 and join the summit@xmpp.org list to discuss.

edit: hmm, did I just edit this so it would reappear in folks feed readers… why yes, yes I did

2013 XSF Board and Tech Council

bear — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:57:46 +0000

At the last annual meeting (and yes, we are rather late reporting this) the results of the vote as gathered and tabulated:

http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/meeting-minutes/xsf-member-meeting-2012-10-30/

Technical Council

Matthew Wild
Kevin Smith
Matthew Miller
Ralph Meijer
Tobias Markmann

XSF Board

Florian Jensen
Mike Taylor
Ashley Roach
Jason Frankel
Arc Riley

Vulnerability in XMPP Server Dialback Implementations

stpeter — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:37 +0000

Some implementations of the XMPP Server Dialback protocol have not been checking dialback responses to ensure that validated results are correlated with requests. Please see http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/server-dialback/ for detailed information about this important security notice.

XMPP Summit

stpeter — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:05:27 +0000

We’ve decided to hold the next XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon at the end of October. Mark your calendars for October 25th, which is the day after the Keeping it Realtime conference. Co-locating the XMPP Summit with krtconf makes a lot of sense, since both events are focused on building real-time applications.

Many details are yet to be worked out (e.g., we might hold a two-day Summit instead of a one-day Summit), but we will post again in a few weeks once we know more.

Please note that krtconf is a small, high-caliber conference and will sell out quickly, so make sure to get on their email list and register early before all their tickets are sold out (and think about giving a talk at krtconf, too!).

GSoC Coding Has Begun

stpeter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:45:10 +0000

Our Google Summer of Code students are merrily coding away now. Short descriptions of their projects can be found at google-melange.com, but for all the latest updates be sure to check out their blog posts, which are aggregated at planet.jabber.org. They make for fun reading!