The XMPP Newsletter, 28 February 2018

Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter.

Eve Online, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game have announced that they are using Ejabberd in a new chat backend and ProcessOnce have written a a blog article about it.

Staying with games, Epic Games have written a postmortem of a service ...

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Posted by jcbrand on February, 28, 2018 - filed under Newsletter

XMPP Summit 22

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 22th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday February 1st & Friday 2nd (the two days preceding FOSDEM 2018).

Preparations are well under way. If you're interested in attending, please make yourself known by filling out your details on the wiki page ...

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Posted by Guus on December, 28, 2017 - filed under XMPP Summit

Return of experience on XMPP meetup in Krakow

In May of 2017 a meetup was organized in Krakow, Poland. We announced it on the XSF blog, and on meetup.com (also a few social networks). The response from the XMPP/Jabber community was very positive, as we were fresh off the heels of FOSDEM and many members had ...

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Posted by Nÿco on September, 28, 2017 - filed under Events

Easy XMPP: The Challenges

Over the last years, the XMPP community has had a hard time competing with other Instant Messaging implementations, especially in the mobile / smartphone ecosystems. By focusing a small part of our resources on user experience (UX), we can gain significant improvements. This article is the first in a series of ...

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Posted by ge0rg on August, 14, 2017 - filed under Easy XMPP

First Kraków XMPP meetup

Following and reinforcing the trend of XMPP meetups across Europe (Berlin, Stockholm, London, and Paris), here is Kraków!

Tigase and MongooseIM teams will join forces to offer you three presentations:

"Why use XMPP for IoT?" by Andrzej Wojcik from Tigase
"ICE, STUN, and TURN" by Rafal Slota and Szymon Mentel ...

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Posted by Nÿco on April, 28, 2017 - filed under Events

First Paris XMPP meetup

After Berlin, Stockholm, and London, here is Paris. The trend of new XMPP meetups in major cities in Europe is confirmed.

The Paris meetup is simply organised by the JabberFr community, as this will be mostly oriented discussions on modern XMPP/Jabber.

Details are available on JabberFr, LinuxFr.org, and ...

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Posted by Nÿco on March, 23, 2017 - filed under Events

New XMPP Software Listing Rules

The XSF provides a public list of XMPP implementations on its website. For this list to be useful, it should contain up-to-date information about up-to-date software. To achieve this, the XSF Board has decided that all implementations have to reapply once per year, to ensure that they are still actively ...

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Posted by ge0rg on March, 23, 2017 - filed under misc

XMPP and the GSoC 2017

We're delighted to have been accepted in the Google Summer of Code yet again. The XSF has participated in GSoC many times in the past, and it's always great to have the opportunity to work with the enthusiastic and capable students we see and to bring new views ...

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Posted by Kev on March, 02, 2017 - filed under Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code 2017

As before, the XSF has applied to this year's Google Summer of Code.

The XSF is intending to act as an umbrella organisation for any XMPP-related project that wishes to join the GSoC. If you are a member of such a project and would like your project to be ...

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Posted by Guus on February, 05, 2017 - filed under Google Summer of Code

XMPP Summit 21

This year, the XMPP Standards Foundation again gathered in force to attend the summit, that traditionally precedes the FOSDEM event in Brussels, Belgium. Barely fitting in the (rather sizable) room that was made available to us by Cisco, the XSF members had a fruitful two-day meeting.