FOSDEM

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: [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). Classic MUC was first standardized 14 years ago. While it has received some updates and fixes over the years, it still has severe issues considering modern usage scenarios: like mobile devices without a permanent connection and on low bandwith, or rich-media applications with images, movies and voice/video conversations. [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. [Read More]

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]

This is the fourth and last in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. Today, we are listening toSimon Tennant. Simon is running BuddyCloud, a federated social network based on XMPP. [Read More]

This is the third in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. Today, we are listening toFlorian Jensen. Florian is serving on the XSF Board of Directors, and runs flosoft.biz, a hosting company. [Read More]

This is the second in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. Today, we are listening to Dave Cridland. Dave is serving on the XSF Council, and is working on M-Link, the XMPP server by Isode. [Read More]

This is the first in a series of podcasts made at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. Today, we are listening to Fabio Forno. Fabio contributes to many codebases, such as Twisted Matrix, Lampiro, Araneo, proxy65, and more. [Read More]

Those who attended FOSDEM would have seen Dave Cridland typing furiously during the day’s other XMPP talks when everyone else was paying attention to the speakers. Some might have assumed that this was because Dave hadn’t written his presentation until the day he was due to give it. Dave assures me however that he was ‘rewriting’ the presentation to take account of the lack of internet connectivity which crippled his plans for application demos. [Read More]