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XSF's Google Summer of Code 2019 Projects
Posted on June 17, 2019 | 2 minutes | | Flow
The XMPP Standards Foundation is happy to act as umbrella organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2019. This year we are glad to mentor and support the following three GSoC projects. Prosody plugin installer Student: João Duarte GSoC Blog: https://gsoc-prosody-2019.blogspot.com Project: Prosody - An XMPP server written in Lua Mentors: MattJ, Zash João lives in Portugal and usually studies Aerospace Engineering. This summer he will be developing an integration between Prosody and the LuaRocks package manager and ecosystem,allowing installation and management of third-party Prosody modules via simple commands. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 3 May 2019
Posted on May 3, 2019 | 3 minutes | | jcbrand
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. 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 Rafał Leśniak published an interesting write-up about the challenges faced by a Forward Health, a UK based messaging platform for healthcare, which migrated from a third party chat solution to a custom XMPP-based one. It’s an interesting read with insights into how XMPP is perceived by newcomers to the protocol. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 3 April 2019
Posted on April 3, 2019 | 1 minutes | | Seve
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. 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 A design job has been posted at the Open Source Design community for Compliance Suite badges. It is an initiative that aims to create graphic elements for developers to use on their clients and servers to be able to identify compliance levels of such software. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 28 February 2019
Posted on February 28, 2019 | 2 minutes | | jcbrand
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. 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 FOSDEM In the beginning of February was the annual FOSDEM19 conference in Brussels which was well attended by XMPP enthusiasts and where 5 different talks related to XMPP were held. The videos for the FOSDEM presentations have been released: XMPP Beyond Instant Messaging In this talk Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) shows how XMPP can be used to build non-IM applications, such as a blog engine, file sharing, a code forge, a universal remote controller and even a decentralized web framework on top of XMPP. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 31 January 2019
Posted on January 31, 2019 | 2 minutes | | Seve, jcbrand
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. 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. This week in Brussels we held the UI/UX Sprint, the 23rd XMPP Summit and over the weekend many XMPP developers and enthusiasts will attend FOSDEM19. Subscribe to the monthly XMPP newsletter Subscribe News The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is applying as Google Summer of Code organization and open source projects are invited to submit project ideas. [Read More]
Google Summer of Code 2019
Posted on January 20, 2019 | 1 minutes | | Flow
We are happy to announce that the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is applying as Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization. Open source projects are now able to add their XMPP-related project ideas to the XMPP GSoC Project Ideas wiki page Interested parties are also invited to join us at gsoc@muc.xmpp.org. Feel free to stop by, ask questions and to discuss your project idea. We welcome everyone, not only those new to GSoC and consider participating. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 4 January 2019
Posted on January 4, 2019 | 3 minutes | | jcbrand
Happy 2019 and welcome to the XMPP newsletter. 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 Today is Jabber’s 20th anniversary! Jabber would later be standardized and renamed to XMPP. If you’d like a trip down memory lane, have a look at this 2001 Linux Magazine interview with Jeremie Miller or the original Slashdot release announcement by him on 4 January 1999. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 30 November 2018
Posted on November 30, 2018 | 4 minutes | | jcbrand
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. 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 In the Netherlands a commercial chat service based on XMPP and a modified version of the open-source Xabber client for Android was compromised when the Dutch police gained access to the server and implemented a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on encrypted conversations that used Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. [Read More]
XMPP Summit 23
Posted on November 15, 2018 | 1 minutes | | Guus
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 23th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday January 31st and Friday February 1st 2019. These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2019. The XSF invites you all to attend, and discuss all things XMPP! If you’re interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page for Summit 23 (to edit the page, you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. [Read More]
The XMPP Newsletter, 02 November 2018
Posted on November 2, 2018 | 2 minutes | | Seve
Welcome to the XMPP newsletter. It is also available in French. 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. In this newsletter you will find information about an XMPP sprint happening this month in Germany, an article about XMPP use cases, many software releases and much more. News The Berlin XMPP meetup was held, where Holger Weiß continued his series about the perfect XMPP server setup. [Read More]