The XMPP Blog

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. Together these two factors mean that we would not be able to provide a suitably nurturing environment for introducing GSoC students to the ways of open source software development, which is the primary goal of the program. Although the XMPP community has benefited from its participation in GSoC 2005-2008, it might be fair to let other open-source communities have a chance to take part rather than hogging resources during a year when we think we wouldn’t be able to take full advantage of the program. GSoC is very rewarding but it is a lot of work for the mentors and the organization admin (c’est moi), and the Council members felt it would be inefficient to spend a great deal of time and energy on the program this year given the considerations cited above. That said, we hope to have the chance to participate again in 2010 so that we can continue on the path to world domination for XMPP technologies.  [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.  [Read More]

[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”][/caption]  [Read More]

[caption id=“attachment_256” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=“The team hard at work selling t-shirts!”][/caption]  [Read More]

Underway…  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]

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]