The XMPP Blog

The XMPP Standards Foundation is currently accepting applications for new members. This application period will run until the end of January. Why apply? Help the XSF with technical reviews and communication efforts Help elect the XMPP Council and XSF Board of Directors, or run for the Council yourself (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 at http://wiki. [Read More]

Hey everyone! Less than 3 weeks left until the XMPP Summit #8 comes to Brussels. This year, we’ve got something new! Nokia has generously offered to sponsor a mobile XMPP developer challenge. What does that mean? Starting from NOW, you can start writing a mobile application for ANY Nokia platform (Maemo / S60v3 / S60v5 …). The requirements are: The program must be FREELY available; OpenSource is preferred. The application needs to be demoed on a Nokia Phone (we have demo devices on location) on the XMPP Summit (Monday). [Read More]

As the XMPP Roundup posts are growing longer each time we send one out, we’ve decided to split them into smaller posts, each covering a different aspect of XMPP news: Articles, talks and events Software Services Specifications So, here is the first of the “Articles, talks and events” posts. XMPP Roundup translations The previous XMPP Roundup 12 has been translated into spanish thanks to naw and french thanks to Misc and Nÿco. [Read More]

Once again the XSF will be combining one of our Summit meetings with attendance at FOSDEM in Brussels on the weekend of 6/7 February 2010. We’ll have a devroom for half a day at FOSDEM (as we did last year - see here for some blog posts) and run the Summit around the FOSDEM weekend in a nearby Hotel. The current plan is to again hold a “hackfest” on Friday, have a free day at FOSDEM on Sunday, and then hold the official Summit on Monday. [Read More]

[Reporter: Nicolas Vérité, assisted by Peter Saint-Andre] This Roundup is the third “almost-monthly” review of the XMPP-sphere this summer. It shows again a lot of activity as you can see through these pointers to articles, software, services, and of course specifications, the core of our work here at the XSF. Articles XMPP web project walk-through Boris Okner describes a weather web application using ejabberd and strophe over BOSH. You can play with the demo (username: shared, password: shared). [Read More]

Since 2006 the XMPP Standards Foundation has been offering free digital certificates to administrators of XMPP servers as a way of encouraging encryption of point-to-point “hops” on the XMPP network. This program has been successful in several ways: Thousands of XMPP deployments currently use certificates issued by the XMPP ICA. Popular XMPP clients and servers have fixed bugs in their code related to certificate handling. The XMPP community has gained practical experience with stronger encryption. [Read More]

Once a year, the XMPP Standards Foundation holds elections for its Board of Directors and for the XMPP Council. That time is now, so the XSF is actively soliciting people to stand for election. Here is the division of responsibilities between the two groups: The Board provides business leadership for the XSF by handling things like fundraising, contracts, grants, legal issues, planning the XMPP Summit meetings, and choosing volunteers for various official posts such as the Secretary and Executive Director. [Read More]

[Reporters: Nicolas Vérité and Peter Saint-Andre] Welcome to the eleventh XMPP roundup, the summer news of the XMPP galaxy. New and updated software Blather Blather is a library for Ruby, licensed under a BSD licence. dojox dojox, is an XMPP library for JavaScript that is part of the Dojo toolkit. Eiffel Eiffel XMPP, a library for the Eiffel language, inspired by XMPPHP, published under the Eiffel Forum License v2. eM Client [Read More]

[Reporters: Nicolas Vérité and Peter Saint-Andre] For those who love round numbers, welcome to the tenth edition of the XMPP Roundup, our semi-regular review of news and events in the XMPP community. Since our last roundup on May 11, here’s what’s been happening… Software Google Wave Google has announced the existence of Google Wave, an early-stage technology for real-time interaction that will incorporate aspects of IM, email, wikis, and other collaboration techniques. [Read More]

[Reporters: Nicolas Vérité and Peter Saint-Andre] Welcome to the 9th edition of the XMPP Roundup, the periodic stream of news and events in the XMPP universe. New and updated software Wokkel 0.6.0 Ralph Meijer has announced Wokkel 0.6.0, a set of XMPP tools on top of the Python Twisted framework. PySoy game engine PySoy is a 3d game engine including networking support being based around XMPP for player chat and server discovering, Jingle ICE-UDP for network games. [Read More]