Membership voting for Q2 2013 has started
Alex has started the membership voting process for Q2 2013 applications and would love it if all the current members chat with the memberbot and vote on the 2013 Q2 membership applications. Proxy...
View ArticleProsody 0.9 released
The Prosody dev team has been quite busy – here is the details from their mailing list announcement: We are proud to present you with the release of Prosody 0.9.0. Prosody is a lightweight XMPP server,...
View ArticleBidirectional Server-to-Server Connections
Today the XMPP Council advanced XEP-0288 from Experimental to Draft in the XSF’s standards process. This specification decreases the number of sockets necessary for server-to-server connections and...
View ArticleServer Dialback to Draft Standard
The XMPP Standards Foundation has advanced the Server Dialback protocol specification (XEP-0220) to a status of Draft. Although this protocol was originally defined in RFC 3920, it was moved to...
View ArticleStanza Forwarding to Draft Standard
XEP-0297, which defines a method for forwarding XMPP stanzas from one entity to another, has been advanced to a status of Draft within the XSF’s standards process.
View ArticleIn-Band Real-Time Text to Draft Standard
The XMPP Standards Foundation has advanced XEP-0301 (In-Band Real Time Text) from Experimental to Draft in its standards process. This technology enables “conversational text” to be exchanged instantly...
View ArticleVoting for the 2013 XSF Board and Council has begun
Our most amazing XSF Secretary, Alexander Gnauck, has started the proxy voting process for this years Board and Council. Details on how is running can be found on the Board And Council Elections 2013...
View Article2013 Annual Meeting and Voting Results
Every year the members of the XSF get together to vote on the current quarter’s new and renewing members and to also elect who will become members of the Technical Council and who will server on the...
View ArticleXMPP Ubiquitous Encryption – a manifesto
Peter Saint-Andre has created a Manifest for others to join, debate and discuss about a plan for upgrading the XMPP network to always-on, mandatory, ubiquitous encryption....
View ArticleXMPP and IoT event 14 November 2013
Joachim is in the US (San Francisco specifically) and would love to get together with anyone from the XMPP and/or IoT community! His original goal was to attend the Doing IoT with XMPP meetup. Either...
View ArticleXMPP and IoT Event 2 December 2013
The third XMPP/Realtime UK Meetup will be happening on the 2nd of December, 2013. The details can be found at the meetup’s lanyrd page The guest speaker will be Joachim Lindborg about the XMPP...
View ArticleUbiquitous XMPP Encryption – test day 01
Simon posted on the jdev mailing list a great reminder about the upcoming test day quoted below: “We owe it to our user’s to provide secure communications” – St Peter. To achieve ubiquitous encryption...
View ArticlePython IoT Hacking with XMPP in Stockholm
On the 21rst November we will meet and use Python to build on raspberry developer kits and connect things through the XMPP IoT extensions. At the meetup event we will have sensors and actuators...
View ArticleSecurity Test Day – it’s fast approaching
In just 34 days the first full test run of ubiquitous security on the XMPP network will be attempted by many service operators. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP server operators are...
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XSF will be present at FOSDEM 2014
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...
View ArticleMembership Application Period for Q4 2013 has begun
Alex has started the membership application process for Q4 2013. Members whose renewals are up this quarter will need to file new applications by December 31st 2013. The list of those who need to renew...
View ArticleSecurity Test Day is tomorrow 4 Jan 2014
Tomorrow many of the folks who run public (and some that run private) facing XMPP servers will be doing a ubiquitous security test of the XMPP network. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP...
View ArticleXMPP Summit 15
The 15th Summit is fast approaching! On January 30th and 31st 2014 we will be meeting to talk about all things XSF and XMPP. The rough agenda is being worked on and we are also in the *final* stages of...
View ArticleThank You to the Internet Society
On December 20th 2013 the XSF received some very exciting news, to end what had already been a great year – ISOC were awarding the XMPP community an incredibly generous gift to help support the work we...
View ArticleSecond Security Test Day
This Saturday (February 22, 2014), XMPP site operators are again flipping the “encrypt all traffic” switch. This is the second of four test days kicked off by the manifesto first published last fall....
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