Google Summer of Code 2014
While the XSF may not be mentoring a project in this years Google’s Summer of Code 2014 - we sure can celebrate and shout about the fact that some of the projects include XMPP as part of their project...
View ArticleThird Security Test Day
Tomorrow sees the third security test day. Security test days help XMPP operators test-run with strong encryption settings prior to the big encryption switch-over scheduled for 19 May 2014. A large...
View ArticleSecurity Notice: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with Highly-Compressed...
The XMPP Standards Foundation has published a security notice describing an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in several XMPP server implementations that support application-layer...
View ArticleXMPP on the Global Internet of Things Day
The 9th of april is the Global IoT day (Internet of Things day) on the site iotday.org and on iotlive.org events and meetups around the world are celebrating and connecting live devices....
View ArticleHappy Encrypted Network!
Today, a large number of services on the public XMPP network permanently turned on mandatory encryption for client-to-server and server-to-server connections (there’s a fine summary here). This is the...
View ArticleUpcoming events
Until our new website launches with a dedicated ‘whats on’ section, I wanted to share some events coming up that might be of interest to our community. Rikard Strid of Clayster is speaking at 2 events...
View ArticleXMPP Summit 17
The 17th XSF Summit is approaching! On January 29th and 30th 2015, just before FOSDEM2015. members of the XMPP community will be gathering at the Cisco offices in Diegem, Brussels to talk about all...
View ArticleIt’s all about choices and control
“Why should I use XMPP?” is a question we get asked a lot. Our answer is often technically-focussed, as there are plenty of reasons XMPP might be the right choice, or we might explain about the...
View ArticleThank you to new and returning XSF sponsors
We’d like to say a big “thank you” to two companies who have recently signed up as sponsors of the XMPP Standards Foundation. Erlang Solutions are a new XSF sponsor who specialise in providing...
View ArticleNo, it’s not the end of XMPP for Google Talk
There’s some recent discussion about the sky falling for XMPP at Google. See this blog post by Dan York for example. In reality, we don’t know the state of XMPP inside Google because they don’t share...
View ArticleXMPP in Google Summer of Code 2015
We’ve just had the great news that Google have again accepted the XSF to mentor XMPP-related projects in the Google Summer of Code this year. GSoC is a programme whereby Google pays students a stipend...
View ArticleAn introduction to xmppresearch.org
At the recent Summit 17, we were very happy to welcome Dominik Renzel and István Koren from the recently launched site xmppresearch.org. The declared mission of the project is to: “collect and to...
View ArticleSummit 17 – the presentations
A slightly tardy share, but we have the presentations from Summit 17 in Brussels starting to trickle in! As more come in, this post will get longer (and hopefully have a more permanent home on the new...
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Board goals for 2015
When our newest Board of Directors were elected, they decided that they wanted to set some goals against which their achievements as Board members could be measured. And so this journey began… We...
View ArticleXSF GSoC Students 2015
This year, we’ve been lucky enough to have had many great applications to take part in Google Summer of Code under the XSF. We’ve selected the following six students/projects and are looking forward to...
View ArticleEyeball Networks become an XSF Sponsor
We’re happy to announce that Eyeball Networks are the latest organisation to become an XSF Sponsor. Eyeball Networks pioneered the STUN/TURN/ICE device-to-device connection technologies adopted by...
View ArticleSeeking new XSF Treasurer
Until now, St Peter has been handling the XSF Treasurer role. He’s stepping down from the role and the XSF Board is looking for someone new. The role of Treasurer includes overall responsibility for...
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