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Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of February 2021. Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the last year, please consider to say thanks or help these projects! Read this Newsletter via our RSS Feed! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom! Other than that - enjoy reading!  [Read More]

Translations: Deutsch Español Française Română Several people have recently reached out to me asking what kind of messenger they should be using now - they said that they actually do not understand what they should be concerned about and whether they should switch from one of the commonly known messengers to another. I wondered how to answer this. Obviously, I could simply have advocated for XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), but then I thought this might not be a helpful answer by itself. Often, people just make a quick decision about their communication software and this usually isn’t a well-founded choice; and so they will end up switching to yet another messenger later.  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of December 2020 and January 2021. Happy to have you back reading! We hope this year will be a great one for you, but as well for XMPP! In December 2020 we discussed the last year of producing and publishing of the XMPP Newsletter, read the notes here! Many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the last year, please consider to say thanks or help these projects!  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of November 2020. This will be the last newsletter release for this (crazy) year, it was great to have you here reading! Many thanks to you contributors and reviewers. The XMPP Newsletter is a community project, and if you are interested to contribute to it in the coming year - you’re welcome to join! For everyone having a new year’s break: we wish you a nice time! Until then stay safe and see you in the next year.  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of October 2020. Newsletter translations Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here: French on linuxfr.org and jabberfr.org XSF Announcements The XSF started the application period for its annual board & council elections. Applicants for the council must be elected XSF members, while board seats are open to everyone. If you are interested in applying for any of these positions please visit the application page.  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of September 2020. Newsletter translations Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here: French on linuxfr.org and jabberfr.org XSF Announcements The XSF started the application period for its annual XSF Board and XSF Council elections. Applicants for the council must be elected XSF members, while board seats are open to everyone. If you are interested to apply for any of those positions please visit the application page.  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of August 2020. Newsletter translations Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here: French on linuxfr.org and jabberfr.org Articles Lorenz Kästle wrote an article (in German and English) on how to setup an Icinga 2 notification system using python3-slixmpp (reposity on Github).  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of July 2020. Newsletter translations Translations of the XMPP Newsletter will be released here: French on linuxfr.org and jabberfr.org XSF Announcements JC Brand created an XMPP job board! This enables people to review job offers as well as advertise XMPP services. Please take a look, post your own offers and recommend it. XMPP works!  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of June 2020. Subscribe to the newsletter We suggest you to subscribe to receive the next editions in your inbox as soon as it is published! Promote this newsletter to whoever may be interested. Help us to build the newsletter We started drafting every new issue in the XSF Github repository. We are always happy to welcome contributors. Do not hesitate to join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort.  [Read More]

Welcome to the XMPP newsletter covering the month of May 2020. Subscribe to the newsletter We suggest you Subscribe to receive the next editions in your inbox as soon as it is published! Promote this newsletter to whoever may be interested. Help us to build the newsletter We started drafting every new issue in the XSF Github repository. And we are always happy to welcome contributors. Just join the discussion in our Comm-Team group chat (MUC) and thereby help us sustain this as a community effort.  [Read More]