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We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person in 2025. Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there! Realtime Lounge As usual, we will host the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions. We’ll be in our traditional location - find us on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator (map below). Come and say Hi! Yes, we got stickers :-)  [Read More]

XMPP Newsletter Banner Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of December 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]

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. Similarly to the protocol, we have chosen the Erlang programming language, because it was designed with the intention of handling large numbers of parallel connections - which is the exact case in a messaging server.  [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). Following the Summit, the XSF is also planning to be present at FOSDEM 2025, which takes place on February 1st & 2nd 2025. Find all the details in our Wiki. Please sign-up now if you are planning to attend, since this helps organizing. The event is of course open for everyone interested to participate. Spread the word within your circles!  [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. The participants, where everyone is welcome, are sitting at a round table to discuss and active participation is encouraged. Similar to an unconference at the beginning all participants can suggest topics and others can indicate via votes whether or not they are interested in that topic. Afterwards a rough order of topics is established that will be followed in moderation with the participants.  [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. If you are interested in running for Board or Council, please add a wiki page about your candidacy to one or both of the following sections until November 3rd, 2024, 00:00 UTC. Note: XMPP Council members must be elected members of the XSF; however, there is no such restriction for the Board of Directors.  [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.  [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.  [Read More]