The XMPP Blog

The XMPP Standards Foundation is currently accepting applications for new members. Why apply? Help the XSF with technical reviews and communication efforts Help elect the XMPP Council, or run for the Council in the future (council candidates must be XSF members) Help the XSF stay true to its mission of building an open, secure, feature-rich, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet Application instructions are available here: http://wiki. [Read More]

XSF Member Jehan posted this summary to the members mailing list: Thus the XSF Board and Council members for 2010/2011 shall be elected this 25th of October 2010. And so they were. As a reminder, the Board is the entity representing externally the XMPP Standards Foundation, in particular in business relations. As for the Council, its members approve the XMPP Extension Protocols, after having been carefully discussed on the various discussion lists and listened to the opinions of our technical readers, whereas they may be XSF members or not, renowned experts or students, or even you, behind your screen. [Read More]

In accordance with the XSF Bylaws, once a year the XMPP Standards Foundation holds elections for its Board of Directors and for the XMPP Council. Elections for the 2010-2011 Board and Council will be held on October 25, 2010 (with proxy voting 1 Oct. - 24 Oct.). If you are interested in running for Board or Council, please add a wiki page about your candidacy to the relevant sections of this page on the XMPP Wiki by the close of business on September 30, 2010. [Read More]

The first developer conference held by the XMPP Standards Foundation occurred on July 24 and 25, 2006, in Portland, Oregon, USA (the same week as OSCON 2006). Note: The following information is archived here for historical purposes (last updated 2006-07-25). Purpose The purpose of this event was to test interoperability between multiple implementations of the XMPP RFCs (3920 and 3921). All participants were be expected to file implementation reports (in accordance with a format and template yet to be developed), which will form one input to the process of advancing the XMPP specifications from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard within the Internet Standards Process at the IETF (see RFC 2026). [Read More]

The second developer conference held by the XMPP Standards Foundation occurred on February 26, 2007, in Brussels, Belgium (the same week as FOSDEM 2007). Note: The following information is archived here for historical purposes (last updated 2007-02-26). Agenda A detailed agenda will be worked out at FOSDEM 2007 through a just-in-time process of discussion. In general there will be two main activities: (1) in-depth problem-solving related to pressing XMPP protocol extensions and (2) interoperability testing of codebases represented by developers in attendance. [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation held its third developer conference on July 23 and 24, 2007, in Portland, Oregon, USA (the same week as OSCON 2007). Note: The following information is archived here for historical purposes (last updated 2007-07-16). Why Attend? XMPP Summit 3 is the best place for developers to get a jumpstart on the upcoming 2008 certification program and to discuss cutting-edge topics in the XMPP community. Discussion Topics In general the discussion will focus on solving problems related to important XMPP protocol extensions and brainstorming new XMPP applications (including integration with existing applications such as content management and social networking). [Read More]

The fourth developer conference held by the XMPP Standards Foundation occurred on February 24 and 25, 2008, in Brussels, Belgium (the same week as FOSDEM 2008). The following information was archived from http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2008. Intro The 2008 edition of FOSDEM (the Free and Open source Software Developers’ Europe Meeting) will take place at the ULB, Brussels, Belgium over the weekend of February 23-24 2008. Here is the plan for the Jabber/XMPP community… [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation will hold its fifth “XMPP Summit” meeting on July 21 and 22, 2008, in Portland, Oregon, USA (the same week as OSCON 2008). Read on for details. Participants Agenda Logistics Events Participants Participation is open to all developers, service operators, and other interested individuals. Please note that this is a hard-code technical get-together with plenty of coding sprints, hackfests, interop testing, brainstorming sessions, geeky lightning talks, etc. [Read More]

The sixth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation will occur on February 6-9, 2009, in Brussels, Belgium (the same weekend as FOSDEM 2009). Friday, February 6: Jingle Thingle Saturday, February 7: Devroom @ FOSDEM Sunday, February 8: FOSDEM Sunday, February 8: Birthday Dinner Monday, February 9: XMPP Summit Logistics Contact Friday, February 6: Jingle Thingle A hackfest and brainstorming session for Jingle developers who want to code and test their implementations (primarily voice and video, but we will also discuss file transfer, end-to-end encryption, and other use cases). [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation will hold its seventh “XMPP Summit” meeting on July 20 and 21, 2009, in San Jose, California, USA. Thanks to the generosity of O’Reilly, the Summit will be held on the premises of OSCON 2009. Monday, July 20: Interop & Hackfest Monday Evening: Developer Dinner Donations Tuesday, July 21: Technology Brainstorming Participants Logistics Cost Contact Monday, July 20: Interop & Hackfest Here we will focus on interoperability testing and software hacking, including work on automated testing tools. [Read More]