The XMPP Blog

The XSF will be applying this year to participate in Google’s Summer of Code 2011 and we need the help of XMPP project members in getting a list of summer project ideas together! So, if you’re an XMPP project and would like to participate in GSoC under the XSF’s umbrella, please visit the Summer of Code 2011 wiki page and start adding ideas of projects you would like to mentor. [Read More]

Once again the XMPP community came together recently in Brussels to discuss XMPP technologies at the XMPP Summit and to evangelize at the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM). Here is a brief “trip report” from yours truly, XSF executive director Peter Saint-Andre. The weekend consisted of several related events: a “hackfest” on Friday at the Cisco offices outside Brussels, a “devroom” on Saturday afternoon at FOSDEM (held at a local university), an official XSF dinner on Sunday evening, and Monday it was back to the Cisco offices for the XMPP Summit in the morning and an interim meeting of the IETF’s XMPP Working Group in the afternoon. [Read More]

The first day of the tenth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation is starting! The first event is the Hackfest where the XMPP devs and geeks will swarm the gracious Cisco meeting rooms.

Please do visit the XMPP Summit wiki page for a detailed breakdown of the schedule as space may be tight today.

With the 10th XMPP Summit starting at the end of the week, it’s time to announce the Developer’s Challenge! Similar to last year’s one, this year we’re again targeting mobile devices. Nokia has been generous and given us a Nokia N8 to give away, as well as demo phones for the 4 days, equipped with the full power of the Internet thanks to MobileVikings. We’ve set up a Wiki page with all the information on the Dev Challenge here. [Read More]

Six days (!) until the tenth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation will happen. Yes, in less than a week, a collection of XMPP devs and geeks will swarm the FOSDEM 2011 conference (February 4-7, 2011, in Brussels, Belgium) and dazzle folks with how distributed systems are supposed to work. Please do visit the XMPP Summit wiki page for a detailed breakdown of the schedule and also to register/sign up for any of the events. [Read More]

In a bit more than two weeks (!) the tenth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation will happen. February 4-7, 2011, in Brussels, Belgium (the same weekend as FOSDEM 2011). The space available for the Summit itself has already reached the room capacity for the Feb 7th Summit day and there are only a handful of slots available for the Feb 4th Hackfest! Sponsors are still being sought for the XSF Dinner and I’m hearing talk that details of the Dev Challenge will be known very soon! [Read More]

ProcessOne, for the second time, will be hosting the SeaBeyond event. This year SeaBeyond is dedicated to federated social real-time tools and mobile real-time collaboration, with more discussions about real-time technologies in general. In the morning will be the “sandbox” where news/developments, demos and technical discussions will take place, and in the afternoon the “lighthouse” for talks and presentations. Visit ProcessOne’s SeaBeyond website for full details. Speakers coming from all over the world, including Europe (France, Poland, Germany, Finland), USA, and Australia: [Read More]

From 6th-11th December 2010, the XSF ran its first remote interop event. All client and server projects were invited to attend, and we had a good turnout. The aim of the interop event was to test basic XMPP interoperability, particularly re correct TLS and certificate handling, for both clients and servers. We provided projects with a list of tests, together with a set of known-bad server configurations, and worked through these during the week. [Read More]

The proxy voting still has not reached a quorom, so unless you plan on voting at the meeting you have until the close of business on December 14th. On December 15th we will have one of the few required “all hands” meetings to formally approve the voting results. The voting is handled by the XSF’s Membership Bot memberbot@jabber.org and you can review the current membership applications listed here: November 2010 Applications [Read More]

Hey, the 10th XMPP Summit is coming up quickly, so we’re preparing the participant lists so that we know for how many people we need to book venues etc. So it would be great if you’re joining us for the Summit 10 in Brussels this year, if you could leave a comment on the XMPP.org page or just say hi on the Summit list.: XMPP Summit 10 Page That page will also list all the information you’ll need to know about this years Summit (some parts are still work in progress :) ). [Read More]