Dear all,
the XSF Communication Team is pleased to announce a new initiative to
help evolving the XMPP ecosystem in a broader and aligned perspective.
This should cover discussions, development but also extended public
communication and presence. As this is being setup in an iterative way
its participants will be able to form and steer the collaborations
direction over time.
You can read the full blog post here:
https://xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-future-initiative/
After a number of questions let me elaborate a bit more.
So, when you join the session(s) we will have a interactive
collaboration board present where we will conduct different exercises.
We start with basically exposure and a discussion of the networks status
quo is as everyone sees it from their corner. If you have ideas of what
you would like to change, you can just propose those.
Ideas could be for example that members from the XMPP community are
interest in an organised (regular?) interoperability meeting on certain
XEPs. Others think of more engagement along encryption or building a
better landing page for developers. In the end, all those great ideas
and constructive feedback can be brought to the first session, but also
at a later point. Out of this, the round will form a collaborative
direction that anyone interested can join, commit and contribute to.
There are more and other directing and hopefully fun exercises of this
nature and we will collect, review and discuss ideas that could be worth
moving on within a couple of months. Ideas, to be shaped in smaller
activities, with no long time frames but effective outcomes that the
ecosystem benefits at user or (new) developers level.
We hope this is a motivating opportunity for the XMPP network and help
us to step ahead all together. We also believe that such a collaboration
can enable the network to evolve and gain new momentum and result in
strong benefits for all actors.
Feel free to comeback with your thoughts already.
Best regards from the Communication Team,
Eddie
Dear XSF community,
Documentation has been prepared outlining example approaches for relocating
the XSF's legal home to the European Union. These proposals are intended as
lightweight, pragmatic illustrations of how such a transition could work.
They are not intended to define the eventual legal form, and no decisions
have been made.
Please note: although I am currently a Board member, these proposals were
created on my own accord and do not reflect any shared opinion or decision
of the XSF Board.
Currently, the examples focus on structures under Dutch law and assume a
complete migration from the U.S. to the EU. They are meant to help the
community explore possibilities, understand trade-offs, and discuss
potential paths forward.
The proposals can be found at:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XSF_EU_Legal_Transition_Proposal
Please review these examples, ask questions, and share feedback - maybe
even add alternative proposals of your own. Your input will help ensure
that any future decision is well-informed, practical, and aligned with the
needs of the XSF community.
Kind regards,
Guus
Dear all,
This year the XMPP Summit 28 took again place in Brussels and we had
great participation of almost 40 people attending in-person and online.
We also had several new faces there which is great news, too!
The same, FOSDEM 2026 took also place at ULB, and though we had to
arrange for a new location our Realtime Lounge, the feedback and
impressions have been mostly positive.
Finally, writing a summary of our experience would be valuable and help
others to gain interest in the way we work and the ecosystem are
continuously building. To collaborate on this effort, everyone is
invited to contribute to this pad before we will create a final PR to
review: https://pad.nixnet.services/BoUphR54TnOzh774PhNWXw?view
To provide your individual feedback everyone is invited to participate
this survey on both events:
https://xsf-communication-team.limesurvey.net/286665?lang=en&newtest=Y
Please leave your feedback by Sun, 22nd February 2026.
At this point, many thanks to everyone who supported us making both
happenings a success!
Best regards!
Eddie
According to my records the following XSF members have voted via proxy
in the current voting period:
* intosi (at) ik.nu
* nicoco (at) nicoco.fr
* singpolyma (at) singpolyma.net
* linkmauve (at) linkmauve.fr
* badrihippo (at) disroot.org
* kevin.smith (at) isode.com
* lbocquet (at) jabber.org
* mario (at) sabatino.pro
* daniel (at) spacecloud.one
* thilo.molitor (at) juforum.de
* kobit (at) tigase.org
* dele.olajide (at) igniterealtime.org
* dan.caseley (at) igniterealtime.org
* andrzej.wojcik (at) tigase.org
* tim (at) mailbox.bz
* jabber (at) larma.de
* guus.der.kinderen (at) igniterealtime.org
* gnauck (at) conversations.im
We have no quorum yet!
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
Hello,
As an open standards organization I think the XSF should sign https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
There are many reasons but the most obvious is that Android is the most popular operating system in the world (wikipedia says). If you want XMPP adoption by users self hosting, or companies, or govts, they'll all need clients to run on android, and google has a long track record of blocking them. eg https://blog.jmp.chat/b/2026-google-wants-to-control-your-device it's also happened to Conversations and I believe Snikket.
Guus asked that I email here to guage support so please reply to let the board know. If you are like me and despise email drop your support in xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join and I'll forward it here for you.
Thanks,
moparisthebest
Hi everyone,
During the recent XMPP Summit, we discussed the idea of organizing a second
Summit in 2026, potentially as an online-only event.
The motivation behind this idea would be to:
- Keep momentum going between in-person Summits
- Lower the barrier to participation
- Create space for focused discussions or follow-ups that don’t
necessarily require physical presence
At this stage, this is very much an open exploration, not a proposal. Some
questions that might be worth discussing:
- Is there interest in an additional Summit this year?
- What goals would such an event serve?
- Would an online format make sense, or are there better alternatives?
- What kind of scope or duration would be reasonable?
I'd like to use this thread to gauge interest and collect initial thoughts.
If there's enough energy around this, we can look at concrete next steps
later.
Looking forward to your input.
Kind regards,
Guus
Hi everyone,
At the Summit, we had a good discussion about outreach and positioning of
XMPP, and whether we could be more deliberate in how we present XMPP as a
technology in relevant communities and markets.
One concrete idea that came up was: Having XSF representatives speak at
selected events (conferences, meetups, etc.)
More generally, this raises questions such as:
- Where do we want XMPP to be more visible?
- What audiences should we prioritize?
- What kinds of materials, messaging, or support would be needed?
- How can we do this in a sustainable, volunteer-friendly way?
This thread is intended to collect ideas, experiences, and opinions on
whether - and how - we might move toward more structured outreach.
No decisions are implied at this point; the goal is simply to start a
focused conversation.
Kind regards,
Guus
TLDR: XSF Communication Team is asking to switch to mailbox.org for 30
EUR per year.
Dear all,
We would like to find a new email address for the XSF Communication Team
that supports all our growing needs. Protonmail no longer meets these
needs for a long time, either for free or at a reasonable price (while
still respecting their service).
We need such an account because Protonmail asked for a paid subscription
to use SMTP with e.g. Thunderbird (yes really). We are also limited in
organizing emails and the inbox as this is also restricted in the free
plan. Additionally, we are currently blocked to use Reddit and LinkedIn
with SocialBu with our Protonmail.
We are therefore looking for a decent host that also supports a good
level of compliance, privacy under GDPR, and possibly comes with more
capabilities at a reasonable price. We have created a service comparison
table here: https://pad.nixnet.services/331YAjbUQOmAWa2Octx_DA?view
Later on, we could also ask Mailbox.org if they could provide a standard
account for free. As they even used to run an XMPP server, they might be
willing to support an account. However, I am not sure how such a
collaboration should look like.
Firstly, we are blocked being fully operational and able to expand as we
could at the moment and I would like to switch first. Then we can expand
cooperation and maybe even sponsoring.
On the other hand, switching to mailbox.org would provide us with
additional organisational tooling that could benefit the XSF and the
XMPP Community such as custom domains and other office tools they provide.
Best regards,
Eddie
Dear Board members,
This email announces the agenda for our next Board meeting, scheduled for
Thursday, 19 February 2026, from 17:00 to 17:30 UTC. The meeting will take
place in the XSF chatroom at xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join.
Brief context is included for each agenda item to support preparation.
*1. Welcome*Opening of the meeting.
*2. Formalize Agenda*Confirm and approve the agenda for this meeting.
*3. Vote on: XSF Communication Team's email provider budget*Proposal to
approve the team's migration to Mailbox.org at approximately 30 EUR/year as
discussed most recently on
https://mail.jabber.org/hyperkitty/list/members@xmpp.org/thread/ODT43WOCRUE…
*4. Progress report: decision-ready proposal for XSF's EU-based
presence*Follow-up
on Guus's commitment to present a concrete proposal for establishing a
minimal EU presence for XSF, per action point of the Board meeting on 15
Dec 2025.
*5. Summit follow-up discussion: Second XMPP Summit 2026 (online?)*Summit
discussions showed interest; mailing-list feedback was limited. Validate
whether sufficient interest still exists. Decide whether to proceed with
lightweight exploration (e.g. call for volunteers, rough scope), or
explicitly conclude that no further action will be taken at this time.
*6. Summit follow-up discussion: Structured outreach initiatives*Ideas were
discussed at the Summit; minimal follow-up input was received via the
mailing list. Identify one or two concrete outreach initiatives worth
pursuing (including an owner and success criteria), or explicitly conclude
that no further action will be taken at this time.
*7. Summit follow-up discussion: XMPP 2*Prior discussions expressed
interest; little asynchronous feedback was received. Determine whether
there is sufficient interest to warrant further work, and either mandate a
scoped next step or explicitly conclude that no further action will be
taken at this time.
*8. Any Other Business (AOB)*Items not listed above that require brief
attention.
*9. Date of next meeting*Agreement on the date of the next Board meeting.
*10. Close*
Closing of the meeting.
Please review the relevant materials ahead of the meeting so that we can
use our time efficiently.
Kind regards,
Guus
I've started proxy voting via xmpp:memberbot@xmpp.org on the membership
applications listed here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q1_2026
We will hold a member meeting on March 5th to formally approve the
voting results.
The meeting particulars are:
Date: March 5th, 2026
Time: 19:00 UTC
Location: xmpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org
When you have problems with memberbot please contact my directly by
email or xmpp.
Thanks,
Alex
