The XMPP Blog

At the last annual meeting (and yes, we are rather late reporting this) the results of the vote as [gathered and tabulated] (https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/meeting-minutes/xsf-member-meeting-2012-10-30/)

Technical Council

• Matthew Wild
• Kevin Smith
• Matthew Miller
• Ralph Meijer
• Tobias Markmann

XSF Board

• Florian Jensen
• Mike Taylor
• Ashley Roach
• Jason Frankel
• Arc Riley

Some implementations of the XMPP Server Dialback protocol have not been checking dialback responses to ensure that validated results are correlated with requests. Please see https://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/server-dialback/ for detailed information about this important security notice.

We’ve decided to hold the next XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon at the end of October. Mark your calendars for October 25th, which is the day after the Keeping it Realtime conference. Co-locating the XMPP Summit with krtconf makes a lot of sense, since both events are focused on building real-time applications. Many details are yet to be worked out (e.g., we might hold a two-day Summit instead of a one-day Summit), but we will post again in a few weeks once we know more. [Read More]

Our Google Summer of Code students are merrily coding away now.

Short descriptions of their projects can be found at google-melange.com, but for all the latest updates be sure to check out their blog posts, which are aggregated at planet.jabber.org.

They make for fun reading!

Identity and Privacy are a growing concern on the Internet nowadays, and there have been different attempts to solve this. One of the most recent ones is BrowserID. The XSF believes however, that building upon the strengths of XMPP would be a great way forward for the BrowserID concept, due to its inherent federation, proven Internet-wide scalability, and decentralised architecture. This is why the XSF has decided to support projects that demonstrate the use of XMPP for BrowserID purposes. [Read More]

It’s with great pleasure that we would like to share with you the list of students that have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2012 for the XMPP Standards Foundation. Cătălin Badea Conversation history support for Swift Denis Washington PubSub HTTP Interface for buddycloud Mateusz Piękos Swift - Whiteboarding Pawel Domas XMPP-Jitsi: PseudoTCP Rodrigo Duarte An XMPP Media Server sarangbh Twitter Backend for Spectrum Yoann Blein Swift - Screen Sharing Congratulations to all of you, and thanks to everyone who submitted an idea for this year. [Read More]

It’s great to see this many applications for GSoC projects so far, but there are still a few days left to apply. So if you’re a student and interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code, head on over to our GSoC 2012 Wiki page and find out what projects are looking for your help. The deadline for Students to apply is April 6th at 6pm UTC, so be sure to apply before then. [Read More]

The IETF’s XMPP Working Group will hold an in-person meeting this week at IETF 83 in Paris. The topics will include end-to-end encryption, server-to-server federation, and internationalization.

Remote access will also be accommodated. Here are the particulars:

Date: Wednesday, March 28
Time: 15:10-16:10 Central European Time (14:10 UTC)
Place: Le Palais des Congres de Paris, France
Chatroom: xmpp@jabber.ietf.org
Audio Stream: http://ietf83streaming.dnsalias.net/ietf/ietf837.m3u

We’re happy to announce that the XSF has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code for 2012. See our wiki page for details. We still have time to add project ideas to the list there, so if you participate in an XMPP-related codebase feel free to get involved!

On February 3-6, the XSF and members of the XMPP community participated in both XMPP Summit 11 and FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. This is a late report about the activities there, based on the notes made at the time about the Summit and FOSDEM in general. With regard to community outreach, we had a very successful presence at FOSDEM. In addition to the devroom, where we brought together a full afternoon of talks about XMPP and related topics, we also hosted a “real-time lounge” in one of the buildings on the ULB campus. [Read More]