The XMPP Blog

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.

Arc, Lance and Ralph are all at PyCon 2013 and today they were showing off XMPP and Python at one of the “poster sessions”. Nicely done!

PyCon 2013

With support for audio and video calls, Jitsi has long had one of the richest Jingle implementations. Now the project has added even more on top of that: Multiparty Video Conferencing. One of the most prominent new features in the 2.0 release is Multiparty Video Conferencing. Such conferences can work in an ad-hoc mode where one of the clients relays video to everyone else, or in cases that require scalability, Jitsi can use the Jitsi Videobridge: an RTP relaying server controlled over XMPP. [Read More]

The XSF recently held the XMPP Summit 13 in Brussels this past week, specifically January 31 and February 1, 2013 – and truth be told we are all exhausted and amazed at how much discussion and planning can happen in two days when you get a bunch of bright, smart folks in the same room. We would like to thank again our sponsors, who really stood up and helped make the event a success: [Read More]