The XMPP Blog

In its meeting today, the XSF’s Board of Directors approved the privacy policy for xmpp.org and jabber.org, including the jabber.org IM service.

Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the draft policy.

Is There a New Successor to SIP? Is XMPP is set to overthrow SIP as the VoIP signaling king? Tsahi Levent-Levi, a system architect at RADVISION, thinks it’s a possibility. **Codebits 2008 ** XSF Member Pedro Melo has posted the content of his “XMPP - Hands On” presentation at Codebits 2008 (a Portuguese event hosted by Portuguese Telecoms company Sapo.pt ). The presentation itself is in Portuguese, the code accompanying it is, obviously, not :-) [Read More]

In a relatively slow week for XMPP-related news: Deadline Web Worker Daily, amongst others, reported on the launch of ‘Deadline’ a web-based reminder service with a plain english interface which uses email and XMPP IM to send reminders of appointments and tasks. FriendFeed FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor joined the Gilmore Gang podcast to talk about their release of XMPP realtime services. The podcast is worth a listen, with the XMPP specific discussions starting at 15:30 into the show. [Read More]

This is the second in what we hope will be a regular (perhaps even weekly) roundup of blog posts, announcements, and news stories relating to and featuring XMPP. The roundup is compiled by trawling through Google News Alerts for occurrences of ‘XMPP’ and is most definitely not comprehensive. If you are aware of items this roundup of the past week’s news has missed or wish to submit posts of your own, then please contact any member of the Board. [Read More]

Among other things, the XSF runs the jabber.org IM service, which is one of the largest nodes on the open XMPP network (yes, we really do believe in running code!). However, we’ve never had a privacy and security policy for this service. Recently we’ve been working to define such a policy so that folks who use the service know exactly where they stand. A draft of the policy is located at https://xmpp. [Read More]

Welcome to the first installment of what we hope will be a continuing series of reports on XMPP technologies and the XMPP community (you can think of this series is a replacement for the old Jabber Journal). This report is authored by Peter Saint-Andre, Florian Jensen, and Jack Moffitt. Future reports might involve different authors just to keep things interesting; let us know if you’d like to help. Secure Communications Week The first Secure Communications Week is coming soon: October 4-11, 2008. [Read More]

Here at the XMPP Standards Foundation, we’re not just a bunch of protocol geeks. As firm believers in the old IETF mantra of “rough consensus and running code”, we run one of the most central nodes on the XMPP network: the jabber.org IM service. A lot of care and attention goes into running this service: hardware, hosting, software, and precious time donated by a dedicated group of volunteers. All of those factors were in evidence during our just-completed migration of the service to a new machine. [Read More]

For the fourth year in a row, the XMPP Standards Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code. Our projects for 2008 are as follows: Mateusz Biliński (vArDo) – Plug-in system for Gajim (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger) Adam Czachorowski (gislan) – Metacontacts support and various roster improvements for Psi (Mentor: Remko Tronçon) Tomas Karasek (tomk) – Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (XEP-0124) support in Gajim Jabber client (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger) Aleksey Palazchenko (AlekSi) – Psi: Message history (Mentor: Kevin Smith) Safa Sofuoğlu (huni) – Updating and Improving BOSH Support of Openfire (Mentor: Gaston Dombiak) Paweł Wiejacha (senu) – Themable WebKit-based Chat Dialogs (Mentor: Kevin Smith) Here’s to another successful summer of coding! [Read More]

Regrettably, the XSF has not issued an annual report since 2002. It seems we’re always too busy getting things done to report on our activities. But this year we decided to turn over a new leaf by completing an annual report, available at https://xmpp.org/xsf/docs/annual-report-2007.shtml.

Feedback is welcome, as always.

The XMPP Standards Foundation is happy to finally recognize United States Secure Hosting Center as an in-kind sponsor of the XSF. USSHC has been hosting the XSF’s server infrastructure (and before that the jabber.org project’s machines) for as long as anyone can remember, and has unfailingly provided not only a secure location for our infrastructure but also extremely reliable service. After many years of laboring in obscurity, USSHC is finally receiving due recognition for its efforts. [Read More]