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The XMPP Standards Foundation has advanced XEP-0301 (In-Band Real Time Text) from Experimental to Draft in its standards process. This technology enables “conversational text” to be exchanged instantly while it is being typed or created, which has applications in live speech transcription, systems for the deaf and hard of hearing, and other situations where speech is not practical.

XEP-0297, which defines a method for forwarding XMPP stanzas from one entity to another, has been advanced to a status of Draft within the XSF’s standards process.

The XMPP Standards Foundation has advanced the Server Dialback protocol specification (XEP-0220) to a status of Draft. Although this protocol was originally defined in RFC 3920, it was moved to XEP-0220 in 2007 when work began on the updated XMPP RFCs, and the documentation has been continually improved since then.

Today the XMPP Council advanced XEP-0288 from Experimental to Draft in the XSF’s standards process. This specification decreases the number of sockets necessary for server-to-server connections and also removes some of the practical barriers to connection multiplexing in the Server Dialback protocol.

The Prosody dev team has been quite busy - here is the details from their mailing list announcement: We are proud to present you with the release of Prosody 0.9.0. Prosody is a lightweight XMPP server, written in Lua. We focus on simplicity, ease-of-use and efficiency - which is why you can find Prosody running just about anywhere from embedded systems all the way up to large-scale services. For a full run-down of the release, in colour, please see our blog [Read More]

Alex has started the membership voting process for Q2 2013 applications and would love it if all the current members chat with the memberbot and vote on the 2013 Q2 membership applications.

Proxy voting will continue until the close of business on August 28th with the meeting to follow on August 29th.

We are using a wiki page for coordination, please go there!

XSF held its 13th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium on January 31 and February 1, 2013. The Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM 2013.

Details are on the wiki at http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_13 and join the summit@xmpp.org list to discuss.

The XSF will hold a developer hackfest on July 27, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. This is the Saturday before IETF 87.

Details are available at http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Berlin_Hackfest.

Alex has started the membership voting process (big shout-out and thanks to Lance for getting the bot updated!) and would love it if all the current members chat with the memberbot and vote on the 2013 Q1 membership applications. Proxy voting will continue until the close of business on May 1st with the meeting to follow on May 2nd.