The XMPP Blog

Welcome to the second edition of our newsletter. Marek Foss from Process One has published the ejabberd 2017 year in review. Ejabberd has had almost regular monthly updates and is now compatible with XEP-0387: XMPP Compliance Suites 2018. The folks at Erlang Solutions wrote about their Real-time Experience at FOSDEM 2018. The article includes summaries of Michał Piotrowski’s talk “Scaling messaging systems” and Bartłomiej Górny’s “XMPP as the road to innovation”, as well as links to the video recordings of those talks.  [Read More]

Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter. Eve Online, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game have announced that they are using Ejabberd in a new chat backend and ProcessOnce have written a a blog article about it. Staying with games, Epic Games have written a postmortem of a service outage where they mention certain stats related to their usage of XMPP.  [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 22th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday February 1st & Friday 2nd (the two days preceding FOSDEM 2018). Preparations are well under way. If you’re interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 22. If you haven’t already, make sure that you’re signed up to the Summit mailling list, which is where you can expect most updates to be announced.  [Read More]

In May of 2017 a meetup was organized in Krakow, Poland. We announced it on the XSF blog, and on meetup.com (also a few social networks). The response from the XMPP/Jabber community was very positive, as we were fresh off the heels of FOSDEM and many members had just recently met at the XMPP Summit. Philosophy & goals Firstly, it was a cooperation between Tigase and MongooseIM. Both organizations provide open source XMPP server software and bring professional expertise to the protocol and its ecosystem. However, we wanted it to be a humble and rapidly organized meetup, rather than a meticulously planned event. The meeting was planned with the adage ‘done is better than perfect’ in mind. The ultimate goal of the meetup was to meet colleagues of the XMPP and Jabber community, brainstorm, and overall improve communication between users and developers of the protocol. An additional benefit from the meeting so soon after the Summit was to strengthen the trend and popularity of XMPP meetups in the European Union.  [Read More]

Over the last years, the XMPP community has had a hard time competing with other Instant Messaging implementations, especially in the mobile / smartphone ecosystems. By focusing a small part of our resources on user experience (UX), we can gain significant improvements. This article is the first in a series of “Easy XMPP” posts: easy ways for application developers to make XMPP easy to use. Complexity of Federation As opposed to most other Instant Messaging solutions, XMPP is a federated protocol. That allows everyone to run their own servers, at the cost of additional complexity for users:  [Read More]

Following and reinforcing the trend of XMPP meetups across Europe (Berlin, Stockholm, London, and Paris), here is Kraków! Tigase and MongooseIM teams will join forces to offer you three presentations: “Why use XMPP for IoT?” by Andrzej Wojcik from Tigase “ICE, STUN, and TURN” by Rafal Slota and Szymon Mentel from Erlang Solutions “Fantastic XMPP use-cases” by Piotr Nosek from Erlang Solutions It will take place on the 10th of May, it is a Wednesday.  [Read More]

After Berlin, Stockholm, and London, here is Paris. The trend of new XMPP meetups in major cities in Europe is confirmed.

The Paris meetup is simply organised by the JabberFr community, as this will be mostly oriented discussions on modern XMPP/Jabber.

Details are available on JabberFr, LinuxFr.org, and agendadulibre.

The XSF provides a public list of XMPP implementations on its website. For this list to be useful, it should contain up-to-date information about up-to-date software. To achieve this, the XSF Board has decided that all implementations have to reapply once per year, to ensure that they are still actively maintained and that the listed info is accurate. This is a purely formal process, though we encourage implementors to follow the current compliance suites.  [Read More]

We’re delighted to have been accepted in the Google Summer of Code yet again. The XSF has participated in GSoC many times in the past, and it’s always great to have the opportunity to work with the enthusiastic and capable students we see and to bring new views and abilities into the community. We’ve got a wide range of projects offering to participate this year, and some great mentors, so this should be a really good year, all we need is the students. The XSF’s ideas list is up at https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summer_of_Code_2017, and if you’ve got ideas of your own we’ll happily discuss them with you, so if you’re an eligible student please get in touch, we’d love to start talking to you. If you’ve decided you’d like to apply for one of the great projects we have on offer, please proceed to Google’s Getting Started Page.  [Read More]

As before, the XSF has applied to this year’s Google Summer of Code. The XSF is intending to act as an umbrella organisation for any XMPP-related project that wishes to join the GSoC. If you are a member of such a project and would like your project to be involved, get in touch! A fresh page of project ideas has been created on the XSF wiki. If you’d like to mentor for your project, please get in touch with us in the XSF GSoC MUC Room.  [Read More]