Microsoft Adds XMPP Support to Windows Live APIs
Microsoft has announced that it is adding support for XMPP to its Windows Live APIs, enabling any application or IM network to interoperate with Windows Live Messenger. Details are available at...
View Article2011 Q4 Membership Application Period has started
Alexander Gnauck has announced to the members@xmpp.org mailing list that the membership application Wiki page for the next application period is ready. Now is the time to start looking for new...
View ArticleXMPP Summit coming soon to a FOSDEM near you!
As you’ll be aware if you’ve been following the XSF’s mailing lists and chatrooms, FOSDEM 2012 is coming, and that means it’s also time for the XMPP Summit 11. A rough timetable is: Friday 3rd February...
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FOSDEM 2012 Report
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...
View ArticleAnother Summer of Code
We’re happy to announce that the XSF has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code for 2012. See our wiki page for details. We still have time to add project ideas to the list there, so...
View ArticleXMPP WG Session at IETF 83
The IETF’s XMPP Working Group will hold an in-person meeting this week at IETF 83 in Paris. The topics will include end-to-end encryption, server-to-server federation, and internationalization. Remote...
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GSoC 2012 Student Application deadline approaching
It’s great to see this many applications for GSoC projects so far, but there are still a few days left to apply. So if you’re a student and interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code,...
View ArticleAnd our GSoC students are…
It’s with great pleasure that we would like to share with you the list of students that have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2012 for the XMPP Standards Foundation. Cătălin...
View ArticleBrowserID, meet XMPP.
Identity and Privacy are a growing concern on the Internet nowadays, and there have been different attempts to solve this. One of the most recent ones is BrowserID. The XSF believes however, that...
View ArticleGSoC Coding Has Begun
Our Google Summer of Code students are merrily coding away now. Short descriptions of their projects can be found at google-melange.com, but for all the latest updates be sure to check out their blog...
View ArticleXMPP Summit
We’ve decided to hold the next XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon at the end of October. Mark your calendars for October 25th, which is the day after the Keeping it Realtime conference. Co-locating the...
View ArticleVulnerability in XMPP Server Dialback Implementations
Some implementations of the XMPP Server Dialback protocol have not been checking dialback responses to ensure that validated results are correlated with requests. Please see...
View Article2013 XSF Board and Tech Council
At the last annual meeting (and yes, we are rather late reporting this) the results of the vote as gathered and tabulated: http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/meeting-minutes/xsf-member-meeting-2012-10-30/...
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XMPP Summit 13 in Brussels
This is just a quick note to inform you that the XSF will hold its 13th XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium on January 31 and February 1, 2013. This is Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM 2013. Details are...
View ArticleThe FOSDEM Schedule Is Set
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...
View ArticleXMPP Summit 13 is complete
The XSF recently held the XMPP Summit 13 in Brussels this past week, specifically January 31 and February 1, 2013 — and truth be told we are all exhausted and amazed at how much discussion and planning...
View ArticleJitsi 2.0 Now Released!
With support for audio and video calls, Jitsi has long had one of the richest Jingle implementations. Now the project has added even more on top of that: Multiparty Video Conferencing. One of the most...
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XMPP at PyCon 2013
Arc, Lance and Ralph are all at PyCon 2013 and today they were showing off XMPP and Python at one of the “poster sessions”. Nicely done!
View Article2013 Q1 Membership Voting is happening now!
Alex has started the membership voting process (big shout-out and thanks to Lance for getting the bot updated!) and would love it if all the current members chat with the memberbot and vote on the 2013...
View ArticleHackfest in Berlin on July 27
The XSF will hold a developer hackfest on July 27, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. This is the Saturday before IETF 87. Details are available at http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Berlin_Hackfest.
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