The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is excited to announce the 29th XMPP Summit, the first XMPP Summit to take place fully online! The XMPP Summit will be held from Friday 4th September to Saturday 5th September 2026, both days between 13:00 - 16:00 UTC. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of XMPP technologies to attend, and discuss all things XMPP remotely!
The online XMPP Summit
The XMPP Summit is where the XMPP community comes together to discuss protocol development (such as XMPP extensions (XEPs)), implementation experience, and the future of the ecosystem.
As this is the first online XMPP Summit, it’s intentionally kept lightweight. The goal is not to replicate the in-person XMPP Summit experience, but to provide value that complements our existing asynchronous communication channels.
Favored topics will likely be follow-ups to topics discussed during Summit 28, advance current work on extensions (XEPs), discuss implementation pain points, and improvement of collaboration between projects. In general, the intention is to make it easier for more XMPP community members to participate, too.
Info, Date & Time
Date: Friday 4th - Saturday 5th, September 2026
Time: 13:00 - 16:00 UTC (both days)
Session link: TBA
Cost: Free (registration and topic proposals appreciated)
Who participates at the Summit?
Similar to an unconference at the beginning all interested participants can suggest topics and others can indicate via votes whether or not they are interested in these topics. Afterwards a rough order of topics is established that will be followed in moderation with the participants.
How does the Summit work?
If you have ever followed a thread on the Standards Mailing List or taken part in a discussion on the public XSF channel you should be familiar with this. The different topics are broken up by short breaks that are great for networking and getting to know other XMPP developers.
Agreeing on a common strategy or even establishing a rough priority for certain features in our decentralized and interoperable technology and protocol can be challenging. To get the most out of the Summit, you should have a background in reading (and maybe even writing) XEPs. If you are simply an enthusiastic user or admin, we regularly have booths at various conferences (e.g. FOSDEM, CLT, FrOSCon) that are a great opportunity to meet with us, too. Either way, everyone is welcome to participate!
If we’ve caught your attention, we will then hopefully see you at the XMPP Summit 29. Read on!
Participation
If you’re interested in attending, please help us by filling out your details on the XMPP wiki page for Summit 29. To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter and update your details or you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. To obtain an account on the XMPP wiki, please contact the Sysops who will be glad to create it for you (to avoid the spaming). Contact us using the communication channels listed below. If your plans change, please remove your name from the list.
Please also consider listing your agenda proposals and if you want to have a short talk: Topic proposals
Conduct and policies
We expect all participants to respect our Community Code of Conduct.
Please be respectful of others’ time, perspectives, and personal circumstances. Online participation can be demanding; we encourage everyone to help keep discussions constructive and focused.
Communication
To ensure you receive all relevant information, updates and announcements about the event, make sure that you’re signed up to the Summit mailing list and joined the Summit chatroom (Webview).
Spread the word! Feel free to use our communication channels (see page footer).
We are really excited to already see people signing up. Looking forward to meeting all of you online this time!
The XMPP Standards Foundation Board
