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The eighth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation occured on February 5-8, 2010, in Brussels, Belgium (the same weekend as FOSDEM 2010). Friday, February 5: XMPP Hackfest Saturday, February 6: Devroom @ FOSDEM Sunday, February 7: FOSDEM Sunday, February 7: Official XSF Dinner Monday, February 8: XMPP Summit Mobile Dev Challenge and SIM Cards Hotel Logistics Contact Friday, February 5: XMPP Hackfest The official XMPP Hackfest is there for people to code on XMPP, test interoperability and build or extend applications. [Read More]

We started with Bear and Joe giving a brief welcome and then we went around the room and allowed the attendees to introduce themselves. After the introductions we worked out the Agenda using the barcamp style of posting topics to the white-board and haggling over which order to work thru them. Since the focus turned out to be almost all interop testing the group set up infrastructure with Jack E. helped by setting up a local CA Server and Joe setting up both DNS and DHCP while the great guys from &yet provided network hubs and patch cables. [Read More]

(editor’s note: apologies for this appearing now, it got stuck in the publish queue and I did not notice it until I went to publish the Day One Summary that follows. d’oh!) Next week (July 19th and 20th 2010) the XSF will be having the 9th XMPP Summit at the Oregon Convention Center courtesy of the great folks at O’Reilly who allow us to take over a room during OSCON. [Read More]

The Mentor’s and Students have all been working hard with their projects and they have reached an important milestone: the mid-term evaluations! As of a couple hours ago all of our evaluations have been submitted and they are ready to continue on towards the last half of the project. If you are interested in following along, you can see project updates as posted by each student in their respective blogs: [Read More]

This is the fourth and last in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.

Today, we are listening toSimon Tennant.

Simon is running BuddyCloud, a federated social network based on XMPP.

This is the third in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.

Today, we are listening toFlorian Jensen.

Florian is serving on the XSF Board of Directors, and runs flosoft.biz, a hosting company.

This is the second in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.

Today, we are listening to Dave Cridland.

Dave is serving on the XSF Council, and is working on M-Link, the XMPP server by Isode.

This is the first in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.

Today, we are listening to Fabio Forno.

Fabio contributes to many codebases, such as Twisted Matrix, Lampiro, Araneo, proxy65, and more.

Just over a year ago, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved formation of a new XMPP Working Group to work on revisions to the core XMPP specifications and related tasks. The first fruit of this initiative is a working group last call on draft-ietf-xmpp-3920bis, the core definition of XMPP. Officially this “WGLC” was two weeks long and therefore has already ended, but it will probably be extended for a week or two, so please review this (long! [Read More]

As of 1900 UTC Monday, Google has published the list of accepted project for the Google Summer of Code and I’m very happy to report that four of the proposals to the XSF were accepted! Congratulations to Nicolas, Tobias, Zhenchao and Zhiwei for braving the process and getting accepted! Now the real work starts ;) – a great article to read is from the GSoCMentoring series I’m looking forward to working with them and their mentors in making this a great Summer of Code! [Read More]