Hi folks,
The XSF needs to decide on the future of its fiscal hosting programme.
For those unfamiliar, fiscal hosting is a service the XSF has been
offering for a few years now. It allows qualifying XMPP-related
projects to essentially use the XSF as a way to receive money (e.g.
donations from sponsors) and pay expenses (e.g. server costs). This
saves projects from the trouble of setting up their own organization,
bank account, and so on.
To help organize this, we use the Open Collective platform which was
purpose-built for this kind of arrangement. However, Open Collective
have let us know that they will be raising their prices in 2026:
https://pricing-2026.opencollective.com/
Under their previous pricing, our usage did not incur any costs and we
were able to use their platform for free.
They are planning to charge us ~$15/month per project ("collective")
that we host. This is very expensive relative to the amount of funding
we are enabling. For example:
We currently have 5 collectives, and I checked their "estimated annual
budget" earlier this year when the new pricing was announced (income
was calculated by OpenCollective based on the prior 12 months of
activity):
Mellium: $15/month == 180% of their annual budget
Prav: $15/month == 50% of their annual budget
diasp.in: $15/month == 1000% of their annual budget
Bifrost: dormant, $0 raised during past 12 months
Prav iOS app: $15/month == 178% of their annual budget
If we end the fiscal hosting programme, we will need to transfer to
existing projects any funds that we are currently holding for them.
If we continue, we need to agree that the expenses are justified.
I propose this topic as an agenda item for the next board meeting
(15th December). In the meantime, if any members have opinions, please
feel free to share them.
Regards,
Matthew
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Thanks,
Alex
Hello,
you can find the meeting minutes of our annual board and council
election meeting here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Meeting-Minutes-2025-11-20
All Council candidates were accepted. The following individuals will
form the XSF council for the 2025/2026 term:
* Dan Caseley
* Daniel Gultsch
* Jérôme Poisson
* Stephen Paul Weber
* Marvin Wißfeld
For the board candidates we have a tie on the 5th position between
Adrien and Arne. Our bylaws state that the fifth candidate will be
chosen with:
RFC 3797: Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random
Selection
The currently elected individuals for position 1-4 are:
* Guus der Kinderen
* Mickaël Rémond
* Ralph Meijer
* Florian Schmaus
I am suggesting that we use similar procedure to what we used in 2017
when we had our last tie. The solution was proposed by Dave Cridland.
Its compliant with our bylaws.
The proposal is the following:
1) As random input source, I propose using the "Main Numbers" from the
Euro Millions draw of next Tuesday (2025-11-25), as announced here:
https://www.euro-millions.com/results
2) Each number will be arranged in ascending order, separated by dots,
and terminated by "./".
3) The resultant string will be hashed according to SHA-256.
4) The tied candidates will be arranged into alphabetic order (note,
in this case this may be by first or last name, it makes no
difference), to produce:
* Adrien Bourmault
* Arne-Bruen Vogelsang
5) These will be numbered from 0. Adrien is 0, and Arne by 1.
6) The decimal representation of the last byte in the hash, modulo the
number of candidates will then be used to select the candidate.
As example, if we take these numbers:
02 - 10 - 14 - 28 - 31
We'd form the string with the numbers ordered of "02.10.14.28.31./"
Which we can hash with:
sha256('02.10.14.28.31./').hexdigest()
Producing a hash (in hex) of
'ad2edee63a88d7b4b6109944b5222a6cce1c3719ac4d41acd0dbf8287465ace0'
The last byte in the hash 'e0' is 224 in dec.
224 mod 2 = 0
This would result in candidate 0 being selected (Adrien).
I have created a small script to create the results with this algo.
It is on GitHub here:
https://gist.github.com/agnauck/8996415c1a91e5b6e1d27cad0367c85b
and you can run it online here:
https://sharplab.io/#gist:8996415c1a91e5b6e1d27cad0367c85b
Alex
I've started proxy voting via xmpp:memberbot@xmpp.org on our Q4-2025
Membership applications listed here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q4_2025
We will hold a member meeting on December 11th to formally approve the
voting results.
The meeting particulars are:
Date: 2025-12-11
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
Dear all,
I've just took the chance to update the FOSEM 2026 section a little bit.
First of all, please check if you have material, ideas or also interest
to use the opportunity to promote your project. That also if we get the
projector setup run again (Ralph, maybe you can check the point made by
Goffi and comment).
I have also added suggestion on ordering new material. Please let me
know if you think the numbers do not make sense.
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_28#FOSDEM_2026
Best regards,
Eddie
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
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.
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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
