The XMPP Blog

If you are a student submitting a project for the XSF’s GSoC 2011 please remember that the deadline for submission is Fri, April 8, 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT).

You have until this deadline to update your submission and respond to review questions - after this deadline the ability to edit will be gone.

The RFC Editor has announced that RFC 6120 (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core), RFC 6121 (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence) and RFC 6122 (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format) are now official RFC documents produced by the IETF! This is a huge milestone for the XSF because it means that the core specifications for XMPP have been updated to incorporate years of implementation and deployment experience with our technologies. The basic building blocks for creating XMPP-enabled applications are more stable and more clearly defined than ever, giving developers a solid foundation for open-source projects, commercial products, and real-time services on the Internet.  [Read More]

The XSF has been invited to participate in Google’s Summer of Code 2011! Great job by everyone in making our application something the Goog couldn’t resist ;) But now the real work begins! 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]

Today I will be applying to the Google’s Summer of Code 2011 on behalf of the XSF - woo! The one thing that always makes it easy for Google to pick an organization is a large list of projects and students interested in our projects. 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]

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.  [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]