FOSDEM

In his talk at FOSDEM this year Florian Jensen, CTO and co-founder of Flosoft, talked about the challenges involved in setting up and administering a large scale XMPP deployment. Forian’s slides are available in PDF format here [caption id=“attachment_386” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=“Florian Jensen @ FOSDEM 2009”][/caption] Florian’s own entertaining description of his adventures at FOSDEM can be found on his blog. [Read More]

XMPP isn’t just about instant messaging - in his talk at FOSDEM, Dirk Meyer explored how XMPP can form the basis of a powerful, yet secure, Personal Media Network - allowing access to your music collection from wherever you are, playing your videos on your friend’s TV, and seemlessly integrating your personal collection with global media. Dirk’s Presentation is available in PDF format here. [caption id=“attachment_346” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=“Dirk Meyer @ FOSDEM 2009”][/caption] [Read More]

Jack Moffitt, CEO of Chesspark, gave a talk at FOSDEM 2009 onIntegrating XMPP into Web Technologies. Jack has kindly made the slides available in PDF format, together with a simple application example (.zip). [caption id=“attachment_321” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=“Jack Moffitt presenting at FOSDEM 2009”][/caption] In his own words: “XMPP makes a perfect companion to Web application that need > asynchronous, real time notifications. The Strophe library provides > XMPP support for JavaScript with a simple API. Its design and usage > are explained, and then a simple application is demonstrated using the > library.” [Read More]

This is a (almost) cross-post from Remko Tronçon’s blog at http://el-tramo.be/ The slides of the “XMPP 101” talk that Peter St.Andre and Remko Tronçon gave at FOSDEM 2009 are available below as a SlideShare presentation and here in PDF format. This presentation gives a fast-paced introduction to XMPP, and is mostly based on “XMPP: The Definitive Guide”. [Read More]

A quick report from day 1 of FOSDEM. The Dev room was packed for virtually every session (standing room only as you can see from a selection of pictures below) and every talk, despite problems with the FOSDEM wi-fi, was well received. We’ll hopefully post short summaries of the talks at a later date once the speakers have recovered from their hangovers and/or stopped eating bacon. [caption id=“attachment_250” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=““A Fast-Paced Introduction to XMPP” - Remko Tronçon, Peter Saint-Andre”][/caption] [Read More]

[caption id=“attachment_256” align=“aligncenter” width=“422” caption=“The team hard at work selling t-shirts!”][/caption] [Read More]

FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers’ Europe Meeting, is an annual two-day conference held in Brussels, Belgium. This year the event will take place on 24 and 25 February. It is a large event with 22 main track talks, 25 lightning talks, 20 booths, and 14 developers’ rooms. Developers’ rooms are centered around a particular project or interest group and can be used for giving presentations and tutorials, discussion, etc., resulting in an additional 146 slots in 2006. While there is no entrance fee, FOSDEM is funded by the generous donations of its 2000+ visitors and several sponsors. [Read More]