XMPP Summit

The eighth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation occured on February 5-8, 2010, in Brussels, Belgium (the same weekend as FOSDEM 2010). Friday, February 5: XMPP Hackfest Saturday, February 6: Devroom @ FOSDEM Sunday, February 7: FOSDEM Sunday, February 7: Official XSF Dinner Monday, February 8: XMPP Summit Mobile Dev Challenge and SIM Cards Hotel Logistics Contact Friday, February 5: XMPP Hackfest The official XMPP Hackfest is there for people to code on XMPP, test interoperability and build or extend applications. The XMPP Hackfest will be happening at the Hotel. [Read More]

We started with Bear and Joe giving a brief welcome and then we went around the room and allowed the attendees to introduce themselves. After the introductions we worked out the Agenda using the barcamp style of posting topics to the white-board and haggling over which order to work thru them. Since the focus turned out to be almost all interop testing the group set up infrastructure with Jack E. helped by setting up a local CA Server and Joe setting up both DNS and DHCP while the great guys from &yet provided network hubs and patch cables. This allowed our testing to be done all on a private network, using example.com as our base DNS domain. [Read More]

(editor’s note: apologies for this appearing now, it got stuck in the publish queue and I did not notice it until I went to publish the Day One Summary that follows. d’oh!) Next week (July 19th and 20th 2010) the XSF will be having the 9th XMPP Summit at the Oregon Convention Center courtesy of the great folks at O’Reilly who allow us to take over a room during OSCON. [Read More]

The XSF held another successful XMPP Summit over the weekend at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. Many thanks to the companies who sponsored this event: Nokia, Vodafone, Collabora, Isode, TANDBERG, Buddycloud, Collecta, and Ooros. Special thanks to Nokia for temporarily donating some N900 devices for the Developer Challenge, and to Mobile Vikings for the SIM cards that enabled a number of XMPP developers to experiment with building mobile applications at the conference. And extra special thanks to XSF Board member Florian Jensen for his hard work on local coordination (as well as the photos in this blog post). [Read More]

Once again the XSF will be combining one of our Summit meetings with attendance at FOSDEM in Brussels on the weekend of 6/7 February 2010. We’ll have a devroom for half a day at FOSDEM (as we did last year - see here for some blog posts) and run the Summit around the FOSDEM weekend in a nearby Hotel. The current plan is to again hold a “hackfest” on Friday, have a free day at FOSDEM on Sunday, and then hold the official Summit on Monday. [Read More]

Underway…

Over the weekend, members of the XMPP Standards Foundation and the Jabber developer community participated in FOSDEM 2007 (one of the world’s premier conferences for developers of free and open-source software) and also held a smaller “XMPP Summit” to discuss high-priority issues related to our technology. I think it’s safe to say that the weekend was a smashing success. Our developer room at FOSDEM hosted a full schedule of talks and was often standing room only. Topics included virtual presence, Jingle, telephony integration, mobile applications, server and client architecture, transporting XMPP over HTTP connections, and hacking XMPP applications with the Twisted Python library. I also gave a talk in the main track on secure communications (video footage is here), in which I discussed our recent security work and announced our partnership with NLnet to make end-to-end encryption a reality on our network. [Read More]