Hello,
according to my records the following XSF members had voted via proxy in
the current voting period for our annual board & council elections:
* mario (at) sabatino.pro
* kevin.smith (at) isode.com
* p42ity (at) eversten.me
* badrihippo (at) disroot.org
* mremond (at) process-one.net
* soul (at) blastersklan.com
* emus (at) jabbers.one
* arne-bruen (at) monocles.de
* jabber (at) larma.de
* daniel (at) gultsch.de
* guus.der.kinderen (at) igniterealtime.org
* mathieui (at) mathieui.net
* andrzej.wojcik (at) tigase.org
* gnemmi (at) xmpp.social
* daniel (at) spacecloud.one
* flo (at) geekplace.eu
* travis (at) burtrum.org
* tim (at) mailbox.bz
* neox (at) a-lec.org
* singpolyma (at) singpolyma.net
* jonas (at) wielicki.name
* gnauck (at) conversations.im
If you have not yet voted, please send a message to
xmpp:memberbot@xmpp.org to cast your votes.
If you have problems with memberbot please contact me directly by email
or xmpp.
Also a reminder that the deadline for our Q4 application period is
coming closer. When you are a member that needs to reapply then please
create you application page. When you know candidates that are
interested to join the XSF then let them know.
Thanks,
Alex
Dear all,
after our XMPP Summit 28 (where only 50% of the places are left !!1! ;)
) the FOSDEM 2026 takes place and, if you haven't heard, we have a booth
again!
To make the most of it and also promote our eco-system we should take
the chance to organize this. In this regard I am asking to come back
with your input on
* Do you have leftover promotion material?
* What ideas do you have for what we need or can do at the booth?
* Any other activities you plan.
Both information and ideas you ideally place here in the Wiki:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_28#FOSDEM_2026 (Also
sign-up for the Summit!)
Once we have transparency on our promotion material stack, we can
discuss what we may need to order and also if we have new ideas for our
booth. I offer to organise the ordering, too.
If you are not present, please also add whether you want to send
promotion material from our project so we can place it at the booth.
Please organise and create this yourself - though please speak up so we
can discuss how to get your e.g. stickers to Brussels.
Speak to you soon,
Eddie
Hi all,
Over the past few weeks, I have been advocating on behalf of the XSF to
raise awareness within NEN (the Netherlands Standardization Institute) that
XMPP could be an excellent fit for the Dutch NTA 7516 standard, which
focuses on secure communication in healthcare.
This advocacy was primarily through the blog post we discussed last week,
with additional follow-up via social media and email. As a result, I was
invited to an introductory meeting with NEN earlier this week, and
subsequently invited to join the relevant working groups.
Participation in this group would allow the XSF to contribute directly to
the ongoing development of the NTA 7516 standard and ensure that XMPP is
appropriately represented.
While I could join the workgroup on my own behalf, I would prefer to
participate explicitly on behalf of the XSF. This ensures the organization
is officially recognized as a stakeholder and that our collective voice and
expertise are formally included in the development of the standard.
Before proceeding, I would like to request the Board's approval to
participate in the NTA 7516-related working groups on behalf of the XSF.
I am happy to provide additional details or documentation if needed.
Kind regards,
Guus
Dear members,
I am looking for members with the original access credentials to the XSF
LinkedIn account.
(Hereby, I don't mean rights to publish to the XSF LinkedIn account.)
If you have, please reach out to me directly.
Best regard,
Eddie
I've started proxy voting via xmpp:memberbot@xmpp.org on our board &
council elections listed here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board_and_Council_Elections_2025
We will hold a member meeting on November 20 to formally approve the
voting results.
The meeting particulars are:
Date: 2025-11-20
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
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
I have created the XSF membership application page for Q4 2025 at:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q4_2025
The following XSF members have to reapply:
* Kim Alvefur
* Adrien Bourmault
* Dan Caseley
* Joachim Lindborg
* Georg Lukas
* Thilo Molitor
* Axel Reimer
* Peter Waher
* Stephen Paul Weber
* Yvo Meeres
Thanks,
Alex
