The XMPP Blog

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!  [Read More]

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. In order to do this, the first step is to get a Request for Proposals designed, so that the XSF can establish criteria to decide which projects to support financially.  [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. We are looking forward to an interesting summer ahead. You can find more information about the Google Summer of Code on the Wiki.  [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  [Read More]

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!  [Read More]

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]

The 11th XMPP Summit will be held on February 3-6, 2011, in Brussels, Belgium (the same weekend as FOSDEM 2012). We are using a wiki page for coordination, please go there!  [Read More]

As you’ll be aware if you’ve been following the XSF’s mailing lists and chatrooms, FOSDEM 2012 is coming, and that means it’s also time for the XMPP Summit 11. A rough timetable is: Friday 3rd February - XSF Interop Day (Hosted by Cisco in Diegem) The testing to be done is being organized as I type on our mailing list at interop@xmpp.org  [Read More]

Alexander Gnauck has announced to the members@xmpp.org mailing list that the membership application Wiki page for the next application period is ready. Now is the time to start looking for new members, or remind those who have dropped to reapply. The following XSF members have to reapply: Will Thompson Waqas Hussain Alexey Melnikov Kurt Zeilenga Michael Grigutsch Tuomas Koski Steffen Larsen Guillaume LeGales Joe Maissel Peter Mount Steven Parkes Luca Tagliaferri Mike Taylor  [Read More]