The XMPP Blog

David Banes is hoping to get some XMPP Meetups going in Australia. Looking at Sydney to start with and Melbourne next.

Register at Meetup.com if you’re interested. http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-XMPP-Meetup/

It’s well-known that XMPP technologies emerged from the open-source server project first released by Jeremie Miller in 1999, as well as the combined software/operator community that grew up around the server. In the early days, “Jabber” meant many things: Jer’s server, the protocol used between clients and servers, the server network, the community in general, even a company called Jabber.com (then Jabber Inc., purchased by Cisco Systems in late 2008). Over time we have worked to disambiguate the terms. [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation has helped support a number of open-source projects through Google’s Summer of Code program over the years. Although the XSF is not participating in the Google Summer of Code this year, a number of XMPP-related projects have been accepted by other mentoring organizations… On the JabberFr forums, “Misc” posted the full list: Pidgin: XMPP - libpurple transport, allowing servers to offer gateways to all the IM networks that Pidgin (or Adium) supports Privacy Rewrite, giving users powerful controls over “XMPP firewalling” Telepathy prpl, integrating Pidgin’s powerful Purple library with the GNOME Instant Messaging and Presence framework Apache Foundation: Extend the Vysper XMPP Server/Client with the publish-subscribe XEP (XEP-060) Python Foundation: Gajim: Whiteboard Implementation Adding support for server-side history and roster versioning in Gajim Gnome : GNOME-Games + Telepathy: Play GNOME-Sudoku with your IM contacts Implement Music Sharing in Banshee using the Telepathy API KDE : VoIP client for KDE (revive KCall) KDE - Conversation Logging Framework Turn Kopete chat window into a library Maemo : IM Client For Canola Using Python-purple At the XSF, we’re tremendously excited to see so much implementation of cutting edge technologies in so many widespread projects. [Read More]

Those who attended FOSDEM would have seen Dave Cridland typing furiously during the day’s other XMPP talks when everyone else was paying attention to the speakers. Some might have assumed that this was because Dave hadn’t written his presentation until the day he was due to give it. Dave assures me however that he was ‘rewriting’ the presentation to take account of the lack of internet connectivity which crippled his plans for application demos. [Read More]

[Reporters: Nicolas Vérité and Peter Saint-Andre] Welcome the 8th wonder^Wroundup of the XMPP world. Contributions are welcome for next edition! Stop in the jabber@conference.jabber.org chatroom if you have suggestions (you can even join via web chat here). Articles, Events and Talks “Les Jeudis du Libre” in Lyon, France Grégoire Ménuel, aka Omega, XSF member, has presented an introduction to XMPP at the event “Les Jeudis du Libre” (“the thursdays of free software”) in Lyon (France). [Read More]

In his talk at FOSDEM this year Florian Jensen, CTO and co-founder of Flosoft, talked about the challenges involved in setting up and administering a large scale XMPP deployment. Forian’s slides are available in PDF format here

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Florian’s own entertaining description of his adventures at FOSDEM can be found on his blog.

Reported by Peter Saint-Andre Back in March, we decided to hold an informal “Monthly XMPP Meeting” among developers in our community. Here is a brief report on the second such meeting, held today (April 14) in the jdev@conference.jabber.org chatroom (the archived discussion log is here). Here are some of the topics we discussed… Last Call for XEP-0232: Software Information The points raised included: Is this a misuse of service discovery? Will this make entity capability caches less useful because they will be too large to search easily? [Read More]

XMPP isn’t just about instant messaging - in his talk at FOSDEM, Dirk Meyer explored how XMPP can form the basis of a powerful, yet secure, Personal Media Network - allowing access to your music collection from wherever you are, playing your videos on your friend’s TV, and seemlessly integrating your personal collection with global media.

Dirk’s Presentation is available in PDF format here.

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Simon Tennant, CEO of Buddycloud, gave a talk at FOSDEM 2009 on Geolocation with XMPP. Buddycloud is an application for your mobile phone that lets your friends know what you are doing and where you are. You can find out more about Buddycloud here.

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Simon’s presentation is available in PDF format here

Jack Moffitt, CEO of Chesspark, gave a talk at FOSDEM 2009 onIntegrating XMPP into Web Technologies. Jack has kindly made the slides available in PDF format, together with a simple application example (.zip). [caption id=“attachment_321” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=“Jack Moffitt presenting at FOSDEM 2009”][/caption] In his own words: “XMPP makes a perfect companion to Web application that need > asynchronous, real time notifications. The Strophe library provides > XMPP support for JavaScript with a simple API. [Read More]