The XMPP Blog

Welcome to the 14th Roundup of the XMPP community, part dedicated to new and updated software. This is brought to you by Nÿco and Neustradamus, with the help of Kevin, Johann, David, Will and Florian. Clients Pigeon Pigeon is a chat client for XMPP and ICQ available on the Windows Mobile platform. Cleartext ESM (Enterprise Social Messaging) David Banes from Cleartext, will release the Cleartext ESM desktop client beta, an XMPP chat and microblogging client. [Read More]

The deadline for Student Proposals has come and gone and the XSF has received quite a few proposals covering a wide range of topics, clients and servers! The initial process of determining who is available for mentoring and what number of project slots we will be requesting has started with Google making a first pass Monday evening. We should have information early in the process to start poking Mentors to start reviewing the proposals to prepare for the selection process. [Read More]

Just a reminder to folks (aka Students) that the deadline for Student Proposals is April 9th.

Please scan the list of projects and prepare your application submissions on the GSoC site.

We’re looking forward to a productive summer of XMPP coding and we hope you’ll be part of it.

Google has approved the XSF as a member organization for the 2010 Summer of Code! This is a great opportunity to evangelize the XSF to young students and hopefully “hook” them on developing applications that use XMPP technologies. Quite a few tasks are needed by members of the XSF to prepare us to receive students, one of the first is to get a list of projects for students to read about and consider. [Read More]

The XSF’s Infrastructure Team has installed an issue tracker for use by the XMPP Standards Foundation. Because the core work of the XSF is the development of protocol specifications, we will use the “Spec Issues” project in the issue tracker to keep track of bug reports and feature requests related to our core specification series (XEPs) and related documentation such as XML schemas and data registries. Anyone can submit issues for consideration, and those tickets will be handled by the XSF’s Technical Review Team, the XMPP Council, the XEP Editor, and other responsible parties (we’re still working out the details about how we will track this feedback and incorporate it into our specifications). [Read More]

Welcome to the Specification part of the XMPP Roundup #13, your irregular news from the XMPP community. It has been a long time since we have reported on specifications changes. Here is a short summary of what happened since September. This edition has been brought to you by Johann, Kevin, Will, Guillaume, Peter, and Nicolas. Publishing Tools XSF member Tobias Markmann has been doing great work on our publishing tools. In addition to improving the primary XEP page by enabling you to filter based on XEP type and status, he has developed a way for us to generate our specs in PDF format, with syntax highlighting for example stanzas. [Read More]

The XSF held another successful XMPP Summit over the weekend at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. Many thanks to the companies who sponsored this event: Nokia, Vodafone, Collabora, Isode, TANDBERG, Buddycloud, Collecta, and Ooros. Special thanks to Nokia for temporarily donating some N900 devices for the Developer Challenge, and to Mobile Vikings for the SIM cards that enabled a number of XMPP developers to experiment with building mobile applications at the conference. [Read More]

Earlier today a member of the XMPP developer community noticed that he could log into Facebook chat using a standard XMPP client. The news has since been confirmed by Facebook. This is great news for XMPP, and great news for open standards in general. Although Facebook has not yet enabled federation with the rest of the public XMPP network, I’d imagine it is only a matter of time until that happens (after all, Google Talk launched in August 2005 but didn’t federate until early 2006). [Read More]

Live from the XMPP Hackfest in Brussels, Belgium, here is the XMPP Roundup 13, dedicated this time to new and updated services. As announced before, the XMPP Roundup has been split into separate parts with “articles, talks and events” and “new and updated software” already published. This Roundup was brought to you with contributions from Alexander Gnauck, Will Sheward, Guillaume Le Galès, Kevin Smith, and Nicolas Vérité. EVE Online The EVE Online science-fiction MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) is using an XMPP service for in-game chats (also offering e-mail), on the eve-mail. [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP software Roundup 13. As announced in the latest Roundup, we have split it into different parts. The first part covered articles, talks and events. This post covers new and updated software, the next one will cover XMPP services. Special thanks to Will, Waqas, Jack, Guillaume, Nicolas, who have actively contributed to this report. Due to the high number of new items (yes, the XMPP community is super-active), we have sectionned these into the classical division clients, servers, and libraries, and… a last section you should check carefully. [Read More]