Events

From 15th to 16th August 2026, XMPP Community members will be present with an XMPP booth at FrOSCon 2026, the Free and Open Source Software Conference! As every year, the FrOSCon e.V. (club) organises together with the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany. The venue is free of cost and no registration is required. Find the program and more details on their webpage: froscon.org [Read More]

The XMPP stand at OmniOpenCon has been confirmed for 16-17th October 2026[Read More]

This year’s edition of FOSSY, the fourth Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, will take place during the month of August, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th 2026 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. And as always, there will be an XMPP Track. As announced by the organization in the official Conference Schedule, the XMPP track wil be composed of seven presentations. [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is excited to announce the 29th XMPP Summit, the first XMPP Summit to take place fully online! The XMPP Summit will be held from Friday 4th September to Saturday 5th September 2026, both days between 13:00 - 16:00 UTC. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of XMPP technologies to attend, and discuss all things XMPP remotely! The online XMPP Summit The XMPP Summit is where the XMPP community comes together to discuss protocol development (such as XMPP extensions (XEPs)), implementation experience, and the future of the ecosystem. [Read More]

The XMPP Community is very excited to announce its presence at the coming FOSDEM 2026! Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and will happily welcome you! Realtime Lounge: UPDATE! The XMPP community invites you to the join the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask all the questions. This year the XMPP & Realtime Lounge has been reallocated to the AW building, Level 1. [Read More]

The XSF Communication Team is launching the ‘Chat of the Future Initiative’ to support the XMPP ecosystem through collaborative discussions, development, and improved public communication. This new initiative invites participants from all experience levels to contribute ideas and help steer the XMPP network direction, lead by a user-centric and developer-centric approach. This initiative will consist of interactive collaboration sessions, where feedback and ideas will be collected. The first set of sessions is scheduled from January to May 2026, covering topics like the current state of XMPP.[Read More]

The XMPP assembly for the Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 has been confirmed! We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year. Join the related XMPP chatroom.[Read More]

The XMPP Community is very excited to announce its presence at the coming FOSDEM 2026! Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and will happily welcome you! Realtime Lounge The XMPP community invites you to join the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask all the questions. This year the XMPP & Realtime Lounge has been reallocated to the AW building, Level 1. [Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely! The XMPP Summit The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). The event is not a typical conference - aside from small and short lightning talks, there are no long presentations. [Read More]

Nicolas Vial will host the Quale sistema alternativo per il vostro cellulare? talk with a workshop that will demonstrate how to install and use XMPP for free from F-DROID, but will also give away free QR codes for Monocles Chat from Google Play. The talk will center around LineageOS, with a strong focus on XMPP as an IM solution. [Read More]