Hello,
another year went by and we have to get prepared to elect the 2025-2026
XSF Board and Council soon.
When you are interested in running for Board (business stuff) or Council
(technical stuff) for the upcoming term, please create an appropriate
Wiki page by November 2nd, 2025, 00:00 UTC and link it from here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board_and_Council_Elections_2025
When you need to learn more about those roles, feel free to ask
questions on the list, our XSF chatroom, or contact people directly
which have been in those roles before.
Proxy voting is scheduled to start on November 3rd, and we will hold our
annual meeting to elect the next XSF Board and Council on November 20.
The meeting particulars are:
Date: 2025-11-20
Time: 19:00 UTC
Location: xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join
Thanks,
Alex
Dear XSF members,
The xmpp.org website describes the organisation of the XSF, including its
members and their roles. One of the key purposes of the website is to help
interested individuals and organisations get in touch with people involved
in XMPP.
Where we list XSF members on the website, we should include appropriate
contact information (such as email addresses, XMPP handles) to make it
easier for visitors to reach out to them directly (more importantly for
people that serve on bodies like Board and Council)
Providing contact details would:
- Improve accessibility and communication within the XMPP community.
- Encourage collaboration and engagement with developers, contributors, and
newcomers.
- Align with the XSF’s goal of openness and community-driven development.
We have already recorded JIDs for all members on the website. I suggest
that we add email addresses for people that are interested in having their
contact details published, and think of some kind of opt-in mechanism.
An implementation of this is in the works at
https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/issues/1572 which contains a mock up of a
possible realisation.
What do you think?
Kind regards,
Guus
Hi all,
We have a date for FOSDEM 2026: January 31st to February 1st
This means we also have a date for Summit 28: January 29th - January 30th
As the person who has (co)organized the last two summits I would like
to start a discussion on the next summit by asking a few questions and
floating some ideas.
• How did you like the format of the last three summits? (Renting a
conference room in a hotel with lunch provided (in buffet style) by
the hotel)
• Do you have a concrete lead for some company or organization that
could provide us with a conference room for free in the city of
Brussels? I’m not asking for vague suggestions like "maybe someone
could try to reach out to xyz" I’m asking if you personally know
someone who has a key to a room.
• Do we want a 1 day or 2 day summit? Last year the 'official' part of
the summit was over after 1.2 days and had we known this we could have
probably managed to squeeze it all into one day.
• If we do a repeat of the last two (three) years (which i feel is
somewhat likely due to how difficult it is to find places that would
have us for free and because I’m under the impression that people like
the "fancy environment" with the snacks and the fancy bottles of
water) I feel somewhat strongly that we should switch to a model in
which every participant pays for their own seat (at per cost) and add
a fairly generous fee-waiver on top of it.
I’m very much in favor of keeping the Summit accessible.
(Socio)economicly speaking our community is very diverse. We have
people in our community who would not be able to come if they had to
pay the ~250 Euro the hotel charges us per person. But we also have
people in our community to whom this is a rounding error in the
overall travel+accommodation cost. (I have personally been on both
sides of this.)
The XSF notoriously doesn’t have a lot of money and efforts to change
this over the last 3 years haven’t been very successful. Switching to
a fee waiver model would allow board (or whoever) to set aside a fixed
amount and send x (where x=10 for example) applicants to the summit
for free.
cheers
Daniel
Hello,
I have been recently reading about the "Chat Control" EU project.
For those interested, Tuta has a nice summary:
https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism
Reading the project, I have been surprised to see it could have deep consequences, not only for big messaging players, but for any chat hosting providers.
The idea is that all providers should be able to monitor and report traffic defined as prohibited by the state Coordinating Authority. Providers list include hosting service, interpersonal communications services, for example. I did not see any exemption in terms of platform sizes so I assume it could have a serious impact on XMPP server hosting.
I do not even see how it can be applied to an open protocol, given that you can connect to a server with any compliant client, we would have no way to enforce a backdoor for message scanning.
Have there been some discussion on that topic at the XSF ?
Is it really as catastrophic as it looks ? And if so, what should we do as members or as XSF ?
Thanks !
--
Mickaël Rémond
