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XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2024. Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom. [Read More]

Every year the members of the XSF get together to vote on the current quarter’s new and renewing members. Additionally, elections for both XMPP Council and Board of Directors have been held. This year’s election meeting was held on November 21st, 2024 and voting results can be found in the XSF Wiki. The 2024/2025 term will be formed by the following members: XMPP Council Dan Caseley Daniel Gultsch Jérôme Poisson Stephen Paul Weber Marvin Wißfeld Board of Directors Edward Maurer Ralph Meijer Florian Schmaus Dave Cridland Arne-Bruen Vogelsang Please congratulate them if you run across any of those listed here, but also please help us make this another great year for the XSF. [Read More]

MongooseIM is a scalable, efficient, high-performance instant messaging server. At Erlang Solutions, we believe that it is essential to use the right tool for the job, and this is why the server implements the proven, open, and extensible XMPP protocol, which was designed for instant messaging from the beginnning. Thanks to the inherent flexibility of XMPP, MongooseIM is very versatile and has a variety of applications. Being specified in RFC and XEP documents, the protocol ensures compatibility with other software as well, including multiple clients and libraries. [Read More]

XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2024. XSF Announcements XSF Membership If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until November 24th, 2024!. XMPP Summit 27 & FOSDEM 2025 The XSF is planning the XMPP Summit 27, which is to take place on January 30th & 31st 2025 in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 27th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium next year again! These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2025. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote! The Summit The XMPP Summit is a two day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). The event is not a conference and besides small and short lightning talks there are no long presentations. [Read More]

XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2024. XSF Announcements If you are interested in joining the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until November 24th, 2024!. The XMPP Standards Foundation is also calling for XSF Board 2024 and XSF Council 2024. Be involved in the XMPP Standards Foundation organisation decisions as well as on our specifications we publish. [Read More]

XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2024. XSF Announcements The XSF has signed an Open Letter to the European Commission. As currently many other organizations doing, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has decided to also sign the Open Letter to the European Commission. The XMPP Standards Foundation is also calling for XSF Board 2024 and XSF Council 2024. [Read More]

As currently many other organisations doing, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has decided to also sign the Open Letter to the European Commission. The European Union must keep funding free software Initially published by petites singularités. English translation provided by OW2. If you want to sign the letter, please publish the letter on your website and complete the table below. Open Letter to the European Commission Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NGI0 Commons Fund). [Read More]

XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 2024. XSF Announcements If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until August 18th, 2024!. XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024 The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding: [Read More]

XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2024. XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024 The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again! These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with coding: Monal Modern Monal onboarding and Media gallery (175 hours, medium) Blog post 1 Prav.app Standards compliant SMS OTP based authentication (350 hours, medium) Blog post 1 XSF and Google Summer of Code 2024 [Read More]