January 2024 - Members

XMPP Community at Outreachy program
by E.M. 12 May '24

12 May '24

Dear all, we have successfully signed-up at Outreachy as community: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/xmpp-extensible-messaging-and-pre… We are slowly getting familiar with the program which differs in several parts from e.g. Google Summer of Code. With the support of JMP.chat we have also a funding for one project. This allows us to apply for Outreachy funding as well. So, by this message I invite to sign-up with project ideas on our Outreachy page. Please read the guidelines before you are engaging in this and make yourself familiar with the program: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#mentor If you have questions feel free to reach out and I will try to answer for you. Other then that, the Google Summer of Code 2024 application is pending and you can engage in this program, too. Best regards, Eddie

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Google Summer of Code 2024 at XMPP Standards Foundation
by E.M. 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Dear all, the XMPP Standards Foundation once again plans to apply for the Google Summer of Code 2024! https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-summer-of-code-2024-celebr… Hereby, I call everyone interested to reach out and start planning their participation. If you are interested please review: - Read the mentoring guide or at least watch their Youtube videos: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq - The time you can really spent as mentor: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline - Your project runs under a OSI approved license: https://opensource.org/licenses/ - You will require to register to Google's organization platform with an Google account. However, you don't need a Google mail, just carefully follow the steps. - Communicate and reach out in your OWN community too. - You and your students need to be available continuously through XMPP. In the recent years I had the experience people being offline and were not able to reach through their XMPP accounts sufficiently. Regarding the latter, the stipend also has interest for community bonding, also to XMPP in general. You shouldn't expect students to solve difficult implementation unless you know them and their capabilities. Application starts at Monday, 22nd January 2024, please have potential ideas ready by then. Changes to GSoC to this year for your interest: - "Starting in 2024 we will have small (~90 hour projects), medium (~175 hr projects) and large (~350 hour) projects available to GSoC contributors. Orgs should have medium and large projects available in their Project Ideas lists. Small project ideas are not required for orgs, but if the smaller size project works for your org they should be included in your Organization’s Ideas List." Find our wikipage for organization here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024 To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter your input or you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Reach out in the XSF public chatroom: https://xmpp.org/chat#converse/room?jid=xsf@muc.xmpp.org I am happy to hear from a backup org admin to help me here and there or if I cannot make it due to other appointments. Basic organization skills should be sufficient. Let me know if you have further questions. Please join: Cheers, Eddie _________________________ GSoC Administrator at XSF

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Membership Application period Q1 2024
by Alexander Gnauck 11 Feb '24

11 Feb '24

I have created the membership application page for Q1 2024 at: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q1_2024 The following XSF members have to reapply: * Ludovic Bocquet * Jan-Carel Brand * Dave Cridland * Alexander Gnauck * Daniel Gultsch * Tim Henkes * Ali Mattouk * Edward Maurer * Daniel Pocock * Jérôme Poisson * Jonas Schäfer * Florian Schmaus * Winfried Tilanus * Matthew Wild * Heiner Wolf * Nicola Fabiano * Trần H. Trung * Arne-Bruen Vogelsang Regards, Alex

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XSF Dinner 2024 Invitation
by Ralph Meijer 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hello, Prior to FOSDEM 2024, members of the XMPP Standards Foundation convene for XMPP Summit 26. The annual summit in Brussels traditionally includes the XSF dinner, which is hosted by the XSF for its members, friends, and sponsors, to thank them for their hard work and support for the foundation and its mission. Also, it's great fun. The dinner will take place on the Thursday prior to FOSDEM, at restaurant L'Auberge Brétonne (Brusselsesteenweg 670 – 3090 OVERIJSE). We would like you to be there! If you're interested in joining us, please RSVP by fill out a short form at https://forms.gle/dqVboQpieU3x4USU9 <https://forms.gle/dqVboQpieU3x4USU9>. We'll need your RSVP before 20:00 UTC, Tuesday 30 January (tomorrow!). If you're not a member or sponsor, you're still most welcome to attend. We do ask you cover the costs of food, drink and transport. Kind regards, Ralph PS 1. Summit details can be found at https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_26. PS 2. If you want to sponsor the Summit and/or our presence at FOSDEM, we'd be very grateful. Please contact any board member for details.

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Reminder: XMPP Newsletter - First release in 2024
by E.M. 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Dear all, we are up to finalize the first release of the XMPP for this year. If you want to help or haven't added your news to the newsletter yet, please go ahead: https://pad.nixnet.services/oHnY_ZvLT8SoFyCqIC2ung# Cheers, Eddie

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Fwd: [Standards] ACTIVE: XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct)
by Peter Saint-Andre 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

FYI, the code of conduct is now active. Peter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Standards] ACTIVE: XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:55:21 -0000 From: kevin.smith(a)isode.com Reply-To: XMPP Standards <standards(a)xmpp.org> To: standards(a)xmpp.org Version 1.0.0 of XEP-0458 (Community Code of Conduct) has been released. Abstract: This document describes the XMPP Standard Foundation's Code of Conduct. Changelog: Changed status to Active per Board vote on 2024-01-05. (psa) URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0458.html Note: The information in the XEP list at https://xmpp.org/extensions/ is updated by a separate automated process and may be stale at the time this email is sent. The XEP documents linked herein are up-to- date. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list -- standards(a)xmpp.org To unsubscribe send an email to standards-leave(a)xmpp.org

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potential funding source for XMPP projects
by Peter Saint-Andre 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

Hi everyone, I just learned about a European Commission initiative called NGI0 Commons Fund, which provides funding for FOSS projects and individual developers based in Europe and "partner" countries like the UK. This could be beneficial for projects and people in the XMPP community, so you might want to check it out: https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/ Peter

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XMPP Summit 26
by E.M. 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

Dear all, a kind reminder on the XMPP Summit 26. If you plan to sign-up and come to Brussels please reach out to me or the SCAM Team first from now on. Use the second table to sign-up first. Please update you entries if you have signed up already. Please also remove your entry if you decided not to come anymore. At least reply to me so I can update the list. Consider to spread the word and also ask newcomers to participate if they are interested. Links: - https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_26#Summit_Participants - https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/111658996019326285 Best regards, Eddie

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XMPP Summit 26
by E.M. 06 Jan '24

06 Jan '24

### XMPP SUMMIT 26 **Important reminder** Dear all, one month to go until our annual summit takes place ✨ We are all looking very excited forward to this! We just published a blogpost with some details: https://xmpp.org/2024/01/xmpp-summit-26/ Please help to spread the word. Thanks for all who have signed up already. We are almost 30 people, this is really great 🤯. By latest *Monday, 15th January* we kindly ask you revisit the following points: - Sign-up if you haven't yet - Please update your entries in the list (incl. removal if you do not participate) - Also announce you membership and dinner participation (new columns) - Join the Summit chat room or summit maillist (see blogpost) - Sign-up if you want to give a talk / presentation up to 30 minutes. - We are also happy to see listing if you are remote participating In that regard refer to the wikipage: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_26 If there is more interest for individual sponsoring of the event or dinner that is of course also appreciated. Looking forward to see you in Brussel 🇧🇪

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Board vote on XEP-0458: Code of Conduct
by Peter Saint-Andre 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

This message is for the Board of Directors, but in the interest of transparency I am sending it to the members(a)xmpp.org list. I'd like to request a vote of the Board on XEP-0458: Code of Conduct. The document has been in a half-completed state for quite some time, but we held a Last Call on it in November and updated the document in December. Thus it is now ready for advancement as an active policy of the XSF. You can review the document here: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0458.html Peter P.S. It would be nice to have this in place before the Summit / FOSDEM events a few weeks from now.

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