The XMPP Blog

Alex has started the membership application process for Q4 2013.

Members whose renewals are up this quarter will need to file new applications by December 31st 2013.

The list of those who need to renew can be found at 2013 Q4 membership applications.

The XSF will once again be attending FOSDEM 2014 and we will showcase the latest developments in bringing XMPP into the browser as a first class citizen and demonstrating how XMPP can be used in today’s world. We will also explore and demonstrate how XMPP can be used to solve many of the issues in today’s world of connected devices. The XSF will be part of the Internet-of-Things room and will show IoT technology based on the released IoT extensions. [Read More]

In just 34 days the first full test run of ubiquitous security on the XMPP network will be attempted by many service operators. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP server operators are turning on TLS encryption for s2s and c2s connections and testing to see what doesn’t work and what needs more work. The participants of this effort would like you to join others in the XMPP community and help secure users private communications. [Read More]

The third XMPP/Realtime UK Meetup will be happening on the 2nd of December, 2013.

The details can be found at the meetup’s lanyrd page or through the meetup page

The guest speaker will be Joachim Lindborg and Lloyd Watkinabout the XMPP extensions he and Peter Waher have been working on.

A summary of the event can be found at iea.sust.se

On the 21rst November we will meet and use Python to build on raspberry developer kits and connect things through the XMPP IoT extensions.

At the meetup event we will have sensors and actuators connected to raspberries and create interoperable interchange of data with the help of XMPP.

Interested in how XMPP could be used in the Internet of Things arena contact the organizer Joachim Lindborg XSF or Peter Waher XSF

Simon posted on the jdev mailing list a great reminder about the upcoming test day quoted below: “We owe it to our user’s to provide secure communications” - St Peter. To achieve ubiquitous encryption between clients and servers on XMPP, we’re doing a phased approach similar to the ipv6 test days. 4th January is the first test day of full XMPP encryption. The aim - see what breaks when all XMPP sites enable secure communication. [Read More]

Joachim is in the US (San Francisco specifically) and would love to get together with anyone from the XMPP and/or IoT community!

His original goal was to attend the Doing IoT with XMPP meetup. Either way you should poke him on the members@ mailing list to at least find a pub and raise a pint or three!

Thanks Joachim!

Every year the members of the XSF get together to vote on the current quarter’s new and renewing members and to also elect who will become members of the Technical Council and who will server on the Board of Directors. This year that meeting was held on the 29th of October, 2013 and Alexander has recorded the details in a on the XSF site. The 13th XSF Technical Council for the 2013/2014 term are: [Read More]

Peter Saint-Andre has created a Manifest for others to join, debate and discuss about a plan for upgrading the XMPP network to always-on, mandatory, ubiquitous encryption. https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto To quote Peter: In short: we owe it to those who use XMPP technologies to improve the security of the network (and thanks to Thijs Alkemade, we now have better ways to test such security, using the newly-launched “IM Observatory” at xmpp.net). Although we know that channel encryption is not the complete answer, it’s the right thing to do because it will help to protect people’s communications from prying eyes. [Read More]

Our most amazing XSF Secretary, Alexander Gnauck, has started the proxy voting process for this years Board and Council. Details on how is running can be found on the Board And Council Elections 2013 wiki page. Proxy voting will continue until close of business on October 28th and we will hold a meeting on October 29th to formally approve the voting results. All of the details can be found in Alexander’s Members Post. [Read More]