The XSF hosts a variety of chat rooms and all archives are available online.
Overview of logs
Overview of the logs of XSF chatrooms (logs)
XSF chatroom
Chat about the XMPP standards process (join | logs | webchat)
Council chatroom
The Council meets once a week in this chatroom - anyone can join in, comments from the floor are welcome (join | logs | webchat)
Editors chatroom
Chat about the XMPP standards process and the editorial work (join | logs | webchat)
Developer chatroom
Chat about build software with XMPP (join | logs | webchat)
Operators chatroom
Chat about running XMPP services (join | logs | webchat)
All of these venues are completely free and open to any interested individual. Community chats for software support etc. can be found via XMPP Chat Room Search Engine (not related to XSF business or hosting).