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As posted on the blog of  Peter St.Andre, the XMPP Standards Foundation’s Executive Director, the first of what will hopefully turn out to be a series of monthly XMPP developer groupchats will take place this Thursday @ 20:00 UTC.

The groupchat is open to all, not just to XSF members and will take place in the ‘jdev’ room at ‘conference.jabber.org’.

Full details can be found on Peter’s blog.

This is a (almost) cross-post from Remko Tronçon’s blog at http://el-tramo.be/ The slides of the “XMPP 101” talk that Peter St.Andre and Remko Tronçon gave at FOSDEM 2009 are available below as a SlideShare presentation and here in PDF format. This presentation gives a fast-paced introduction to XMPP, and is mostly based on “XMPP: The Definitive Guide”. XMPP 101 Peter and Remko were the first of a series of speakers in the XMPP devroom. [Read More]

At its meeting yesterday, the XMPP Council decided not to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2009. There are several reasons for this decision: Many of the longtime open-source projects in the XMPP community are quite mature but lacking in obvious mentors or even an open architecture of participation. On the other hand, there are many vibrant new projects in the community but they are not quite mature enough yet to provide a stable environment for student contributors. [Read More]

The first event from the San Francisco XMPP and Jabber Technologies Meetup group took place on February 18th on “Implementing Pubsub for Web Services”, organised by Julien Genestoux of Notifixious.

Information on the meetup together with videos are available from:  http://technology.meetup.com/11/calendar/9322074/

We’ll publish news of further meetings of this group as and when we receive them.

[Reporter: Peter Saint-Andre] Before the memories of XMPP Summit 6 fade away, I wanted to provide a brief report on the latest and greatest of our “IRL” (in real life) meetings. We held the first XMPP Summit in the summer of 2005 to perform server interop testing and discuss topics of interest. Thirteen developers showed up and we made good progress on a number of issues, including the pubsub simplifications now known as Personal Eventing Protocol. [Read More]

Foreword Welcome to the 6th roundup of the XMPP community worldwide. This edition has been written by Nicolas Vérité with contributions from Will Sheward, Cédric, and Mickaël Rémond. Contributions are welcome for future editions. Mats Bengtsson passed away It is with great regret that we learned though Mari Lundberg and Sander Devrieze, that Mats Bengtsson, lead developper of the Coccinella XMPP client, passed away in november 2008. Rest in peace Mats. [Read More]

A quick report from day 1 of FOSDEM. The Dev room was packed for virtually every session (standing room only as you can see from a selection of pictures below) and every talk, despite problems with the FOSDEM wi-fi, was well received. We’ll hopefully post short summaries of the talks at a later date once the speakers have recovered from their hangovers and/or stopped eating bacon. [caption id=“attachment_250” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=““A Fast-Paced Introduction to XMPP” - Remko Tronçon, Peter Saint-Andre”]! [Read More]

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Underway…

Welcome to the fifth roundup of XMPP activity worldwide. This report is authored by Nicolas Vérité, Laurent Lathieyre and Jack Moffitt. This is a very long article since we had a lot of activity these weeks. Your contributions are welcome for future roundups. Software Releases In this edition of the XMPP Roundup, we have a lot of software releases: clients, servers, and tools. Gajim 0.12 Astérix aka Yann Leboulanger has announced on his blog the release of Gajim 0. [Read More]