Hello,
another year went by and we have to get prepared to elect the 2026-2027
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 8th, 2026, 00:00 UTC and link it from here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board_and_Council_Elections_2026
When you need to learn more about those roles, feel free to ask
questions on this list, our XSF chatroom, or contact people directly
which have been in those roles before.
Proxy voting is scheduled to start on November 9th, and we will hold our
annual meeting to elect the next XSF Board and Council on November 26th.
The meeting particulars are:
Date: 2026-11-26
Time: 19:00 UTC
Location: xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join
Thanks,
Alex
Hey,
Just a quick email to see who here is attending 40C3, I know neox is
and I have already spoken to him in PMs about it.
Mathieui and I believe Daniel as well will not be coming this year. I
would still like to have an XMPP presence regardless, and happy to help
out with it.
However, apart from me and neox, I am not sure if anyone else from the
membership will be there. If you will, and are willing to help out with
the XMPP presence, could you make yourself known?
Thank you,
--
Polarian
Website: https://polarian.dev
Jabber/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev
Good morning,
I wanted to post this to the mailing list as I know other members also
run stands of their own, and I wanted to provide a "what went well"
from my own experiences.
This was my first time running a stand, and I am shocked how well it
turned out.
To prevent myself repeating myself, my blogpost [1] covers it all
(along with providing pretty pictures :p), there is also a open PR [2]
to upstream the post to xmpp.org where it is also relevant. All credits
have been provided to the best of my ability, as so many people
dedicated their time to make it happen, along with some people
investing their money into it, so thank you all!
The biggest suggestion I am going to put out here, is providing a
public MUC for any conference which a stand is at is invaluable,
starting it before and advertising it for those who are attending, then
a QR code during the conference at the stand for people to join and
hang out, and then after, in the case of OmniOpenCon we *STILL* have
chatter, days later.
We are now seeking a partnership with the conference, which has given
the go ahead to make XMPP an official comms method for the conference.
I think the XMPP stand left a great impression on the organisers, and
they seem to want us to return next year, which would be great!
Regarding the comms, this is something which I, and some other
volunteers will hopefully work with the conference to provide. I will
update the list if it actually works out, because a conference using
XMPP as one of their official comms is amazing :)
Maybe next year someone here whos a lot more interesting to listen to
could submit a talk about something actually interesting, I am pretty
boring :p
Thank you all again, and I hope the review helps others in improving
their own stands.
Take care,
--
Polarian
Website: https://polarian.dev
Jabber/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev
[1] https://polarian.dev/posts/2026-10-22-omniopencon-review.html
[2] https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1724
Dear Board members,
This email announces the agenda for our next Board meeting, scheduled for
Thursday, 22 October 2026, from 16:00 to 16:30 UTC. The meeting will take
place in the XSF chatroom at xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join.
The agenda is available in the XSF wiki:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board-Meeting-2026-10-22
Please review the relevant materials ahead of the meeting so that we can
use our time efficiently.
Kind regards,
Guus
Dear Board members,
This email announces the agenda for our next Board meeting, scheduled for
Thursday, 8 October 2026, from 16:00 to 16:30 UTC. The meeting will take
place in the XSF chatroom at xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join.
Previously, I've included the agenda in these announcements. It appears
that to many, the markup applied by either my mail client, the mailing list
engine, or a combination of both, affected the rendering of these items
to a point where they were difficult to read. I'll stop including them
until a better solution for inlining is found.
The agenda is available in the XSF wiki:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board-Meeting-2026-10-08
Please review the relevant materials ahead of the meeting so that we can
use our time efficiently.
Kind regards,
Guus
