FOSDEM

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 26th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium this year again! These are the two days preceding FOSDEM 2024. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP in person and remote! Time & Address The venue will take place at the Thon Hotel EU including coffee break (from 08:30 o’clock) and lunch (12:00 to 14:00 o’clock) paid by the XSF in the hotel restaurant.[Read More]

We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person in 2024. Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there! Realtime Lounge As usual, we will host the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions. We’ll be in our traditional location - find us on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator (map below).[Read More]

We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person this year. Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there! Realtime Lounge As usual, we will have the Realtime Lounge set up, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions. Note that this year we will be in a slightly different location to usual - on the ground floor of the K building.[Read More]

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 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 for Summit 22. If you haven’t already, make sure that you’re signed up to the Summit mailling list, which is where you can expect most updates to be announced.[Read More]

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. Day two @xmpp Summit21 The attending members, skillfully herded by Kev, addressed an impressive number of topics, including: BIND2, improving the data exchange that occurs when an XMPP entity initially connects to a server.[Read More]

19th XMPP Summit In late January 2016, from the 28th to the 29th, the XSF held its XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium. It was the 19th meeting by XMPP standards writers, implementers, and enthusiasts since the first XMPP Summit in July 2006. Among the topics we discussed were MIX, efficient reconnections and, as always, end-to-end security. XSF at work at XMPP Summit MIX, defined in XEP-0369: Mediated Information Exchange, is a replacement for the current multi-user chat standard (XEP-0045).[Read More]

The XSF will once again be attending FOSDEM 2014 and we will showcase the latest developments in bringing XMPP into the browser as a first class citizen and demonstrating how XMPP can be used in today’s world. We will also explore and demonstrate how XMPP can be used to solve many of the issues in today’s world of connected devices. The XSF will be part of the Internet-of-Things room and will show IoT technology based on the released IoT extensions.[Read More]

The schedule for the Jabber/XMPP devroom at FOSDEM 2013 is now final. Visit https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/jabber/ for the details and http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/FOSDEM_2013 for more information about our involvement with FOSDEM 2013.

On February 3-6, the XSF and members of the XMPP community participated in both XMPP Summit 11 and FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. This is a late report about the activities there, based on the notes made at the time about the Summit and FOSDEM in general. With regard to community outreach, we had a very successful presence at FOSDEM. In addition to the devroom, where we brought together a full afternoon of talks about XMPP and related topics, we also hosted a “real-time lounge” in one of the buildings on the ULB campus.[Read More]