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Collaboration over the Internet! - 7 May 2020
Posted on May 7, 2020 | 5 minutes | | emus
Intro Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of April 2020. We are always happy about contributors. Just join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and help us sustain this as a community effort. The drafting process for each newsletter is fully documented. Furthermore, we started drafting each new version in the XSF Github repository - feel free to add information by yourself. Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter Subscribe Newsletter translations The translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here: [Read More]
Everyone go for decentralisation! 03 Apr 2020
Posted on April 3, 2020 | 8 minutes | | emus
Intro Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the months of February and March 2020. This is a big one! Help us sustain this as a community effort, which process is fully documented. Anyway, we are always happy to contributors - just come along and talk to us in the Comm-Team MUC and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort, which process is fully documented. Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter Subscribe Newsletter translations The translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here: [Read More]
Full speed XMPP universe! 04 Feb 2020
Posted on February 4, 2020 | 6 minutes | | nyco
Intro Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of January 2020, which has seen a lot of activity! Please help us on this community effort, which process is fully transparent and adaptable. Articles Ingo Jürgensmann has written two interesting articles: XMPP - Prosody & Ejabberd XMPP - Fun with Clients David Wong wrote an insightful point by point piece: A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP [Read More]
Happy new XMPP year! 14 Jan 2020
Posted on January 14, 2020 | 4 minutes | | nyco
Happy new XMPP year! Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of December 2019. Sorry, we are late… Contribute to the community effort, which process is fully documented. Articles Whatsapp, Matrix or XMPP (german) - The German Federal Ministry of the Interior is looking for a messenger for the federal authorities while the German Federal Police is experimenting with XMPP. They are using an Open Source Messenger “MOKA” based on Conversations (german). [Read More]
XMPP in all languages! 03 Dec 2019
Posted on December 3, 2019 | 3 minutes | | nyco
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of November 2019. Help us sustain this as a community effort, of which process is fully documented. Articles Edivaldo Brito has written in Portugese “Como instalar o moderno cliente Jabber/XMPP Dino no Linux via Snap” (“How to install the modern Jabber/XMPP Dino client on Linux via Snap”). Last month, the XMPP newsletter has been translated by community members: French: Lettre d’information XMPP, 8 novembre 2019, sprints, IoT et le début de Twitter German: XMPP Newsletter, 08. [Read More]
XMPP Newsletter, 08 Nov 2019, Sprints, IoT, and early Twitter
Posted on November 8, 2019 | 3 minutes | | nyco
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of October 2019. This is a community effort, and the process is fully documented: please help us spread the word, share this newsletter. Articles QuickBlox has written a blog post about the use of XMPP in 2019. Martin aka debacle wrote an short piece about Dino and other updated software in Debian. Ben Kwiecien rediscovered XMPP after years and compared ejabberd and Prosody in setting up a mobile friendly server. [Read More]
XSF Board and Council 2019-2020 Elections
Posted on October 24, 2019 | 1 minutes | | guus
The XMPP Standards Foundation will elect the 2019-2020 XSF Board and Council soon. Each year the members of the XSF choose new people to provide technical leadership on the XMPP Council and business leadership on the XSF Board of Directors. For the upcoming election, the XSF is looking for candidates for both roles! Candidates for the XMPP Council are searched for within the ranks of the XSF Members, while the role of Director of the XSF Board is open to anyone. [Read More]
XMPP Newsletter, 01 Oct 2019, FOSDEM 2020, modernization of XMPP, peer networks
Posted on October 1, 2019 | 4 minutes | | nyco
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of September. New this month: we’ve made explicit that this newsletter can be shared and adapted as defined by the CC by-sa 4.0 license, and we’ve added the credits as this is a community effort. Be kind, inform your friends and colleagues: forward this newsletter! Please submit your XMPP/Jabber articles, tutorials or blog posts on our wiki. Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter Subscribe Articles Ralph Meijer, chairman of the Board of Directors of the XSF, has written an introductory piece about “XMPP Message Attaching, Fastening, References”, specifications currently in progress. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 03 September 2019
Posted on September 3, 2019 | 5 minutes | | nyco
Welcome to the September edition of the XMPP Newsletter! Loads of news for these two months of July and August: two events in Lyon and Stockholm (more to come), new tools, new server releases (Openfire, ejabberd), lots of client releases (Kaidan, Salut à Toi, Xabber Android, Movim, Converse, Beagle IM and Siskin IM). We also experiment a new section about XEP, or specifications. Please submit your XMPP/Jabber articles, tutorials or blog posts on our wiki. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 28 June 2019
Posted on June 28, 2019 | 3 minutes | | jcbrand
Welcome to a bumper edition of the the XMPP newsletter, containing news from the last two months. If you have an article, tutorial or blog post you’d like us to include in the newsletter, please submit it on the XMPP wiki. News Mickaël Rémond from ProcessOne has written about how the Nintendo Switch uses ejabberd for push notifications. He explains why XMPP was chosen as protocol, why ejabberd was chosen as the server and the performance tuning they had to do so that the Nintendo Switch push service can now handle 10 million simultaneous connections and 2 billion messages per day. [Read More]