Events

The 9th of april is the Global IoT day (Internet of Things day) on the site iotday.org and on iotlive.org events and meetups around the world are celebrating and connecting live devices. #IoTDayStockholm is coordinating several schedules from events in different time zones and will be having workshops creating XMPP IoT enabled devices. These will be open to interact with, to read and write values over the secure XMPP network. [Read More]

Tomorrow sees the third security test day. Security test days help XMPP operators test-run with strong encryption settings prior to the big encryption switch-over scheduled for 19 May 2014. A large number of XMPP sites have already signed up to the ubiquitous encryption manifesto. More so, some of the participating sites have already permanently enabled strong encryption prior to the manifesto’s go-live date! One of the sites is Crypho. CTO Dr. Yiorgis Gozadinos explained his thinking in enabling strong encryption: “Everybody should have the right to privacy and confidentiality. Providing sane, strong encryption standards built-in in XMPP is a huge step to that direction." [Read More]

This Saturday (February 22, 2014), XMPP site operators are again flipping the “encrypt all traffic” switch. This is the second of four test days kicked off by the manifesto first published last fall. The aim is to encrypt all traffic between servers and clients on the public, federated XMPP network. You can take part, too: ensure you have valid certificates on your server and that encryption is properly set up (see http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Securing_XMPP along with the documentation for your XMPP server software), then test your configuration using the tools at the IM Observatory running at XMPP.net. [Read More]

Tomorrow many of the folks who run public (and some that run private) facing XMPP servers will be doing a ubiquitous security test of the XMPP network. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP server operators are turning on TLS encryption for s2s and c2s connections and testing to see what doesn’t work and what needs more work. The participants of this effort would like you to join others in the XMPP community and help secure users private communications. [Read More]

In just 34 days the first full test run of ubiquitous security on the XMPP network will be attempted by many service operators. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP server operators are turning on TLS encryption for s2s and c2s connections and testing to see what doesn’t work and what needs more work. The participants of this effort would like you to join others in the XMPP community and help secure users private communications. [Read More]

The third XMPP/Realtime UK Meetup will be happening on the 2nd of December, 2013. The details can be found at the meetup’s lanyrd page or through the meetup page The guest speaker will be Joachim Lindborg and Lloyd Watkinabout the XMPP extensions he and Peter Waher have been working on. [Read More]

On the 21rst November we will meet and use Python to build on raspberry developer kits and connect things through the XMPP IoT extensions. At the meetup event we will have sensors and actuators connected to raspberries and create interoperable interchange of data with the help of XMPP. Interested in how XMPP could be used in the Internet of Things arena contact the organizer Joachim Lindborg XSF or Peter Waher XSF [Read More]

Simon posted on the jdev mailing list a great reminder about the upcoming test day quoted below: “We owe it to our user’s to provide secure communications” - St Peter. To achieve ubiquitous encryption between clients and servers on XMPP, we’re doing a phased approach similar to the ipv6 test days. 4th January is the first test day of full XMPP encryption. The aim - see what breaks when all XMPP sites enable secure communication. February 22, 2014 - second test day March 22, 2014 - third test day April 19, 2014 - fourth test day May 19, 2014 - permanent upgrade This mean that you should: [Read More]

Joachim is in the US (San Francisco specifically) and would love to get together with anyone from the XMPP and/or IoT community! His original goal was to attend the Doing IoT with XMPP meetup. Either way you should poke him on the members@ mailing list to at least find a pub and raise a pint or three! Thanks Joachim! [Read More]

The XSF will hold a developer hackfest on July 27, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. This is the Saturday before IETF 87. Details are available at http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Berlin_Hackfest. [Read More]