June 2025 - Members

Membership Application period Q3 2025
by Alexander Gnauck 11 Aug '25

11 Aug '25

I have created the membership application page for Q3 2025 at: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q3_2025 The following XSF members have to reapply: * Travis Burtrum * Martin Dosch * Severino Ferrer de la Peñita * Timothée Jaussoin * Trevor Krahn * Tobias Markmann * Ralph Meijer * Edwin Mons * Emmanuel Gil Peyrot * Peter Saint-Andre * Holger Weiß * Natalie Wirth * Marvin Wissfeld * Gideon White Thanks, Alex

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Renaming git main branches.
by Goffi 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Hello dear XSF Members, I see that we are still using "master" as the name of the main branch on Git repositories (here, for instance: https://github.com/xsf/xeps ). You are probably all aware that the use of this term has raised controversy in recent years, as it can be perceived as a reference to slavery (see https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technology)#Controversy for instance). To avoid this unwanted reference and ensure the XSF is welcoming to everyone, I propose that we change these branch names to "main," as many notable projects have done (such as Python, the Linux Kernel, or GitHub). I'm not sure whether this matter should be discussed in the Board or Council (as it is a technical issue), but it would be good to add it to the agenda. Thank you! Goffi

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voting results & meeting minutes
by Alexander Gnauck 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hello, you can find the meeting minutes here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Meeting-Minutes-2025-06-05 All applicants and reappliers were accepted. You can find the updated memberlist here (once the PR is accepted): http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/xsf-member-list/ A warm welcome to all our new members. Feel free to introduce yourself to the list and volunteer for one of our teams. You can find some info on the XSF teams here: https://xmpp.org/community/membership/ Also a good start is our XSF channel when you have not joined it already: xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join Thanks, Alex

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memberbot update
by Benson Muite 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hi, Would like to update memberbot to: a) Use encrypted connections b) Allow for greater privacy in voting. A two server deployment would allow separation of voting credentials from the vote itself - not a full guarantee but an improvement over the current state. i) Some example internet voting applications are 1) https://github.com/benadida/helios-server 2) https://www.belenios.org ii) Some references: 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable_secret_sharing 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting Benson

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voting update
by Alexander Gnauck 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

According to my records the following XSF members have voted via proxy in the current voting period: * daniel (at) spacecloud.one * emus (at) jabbers.one * gnauck (at) conversations.im * guus.der.kinderen (at) igniterealtime.org * holger (at) jabber.fu-berlin.de * kevin.smith (at) isode.com * mario (at) sabatino.pro * martin (at) mdosch.de * nicola (at) nicfab.chat * root (at) nicolosus.chat * trần.h.trung (at) trung.fun If you have not yet voted, please send a message to xmpp:memberbot@xmpp.org. If you have problems with memberbot please contact me directly by email or xmpp. Thanks, Alex

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