- Members - XMPP

by Benson Muite

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

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

10 months, 1 week

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OFFICIAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

by Alexander Gnauck

I've started proxy voting via xmpp:memberbot@xmpp.org on the membership applications listed here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q2_2025 I propose that we continue the proxy voting until the close of business on June 4th and hold a meeting on June 5th to formally approve the voting results. The meeting particulars are: Date: June 5th, 2025 Time: 19:00 UTC Location: xsf(a)muc.xmpp.org Objections? When you have problems with memberbot please contact my directly by email or xmpp. Thanks, Alex

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Membership Application period Q2 2025

by Alexander Gnauck

I have created the membership application page for Q2 2025 at: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q2_2025 The following XSF members have to reapply: * Fannys Bampaloukas * Daniel Brötzmann * Artur Hefczyc * Wojciech Kapcia * Guus der Kinderen * Mathieu Pasquet * Mickaël Rémond * Arc Riley * Kevin Smith * Andrzej Wójcik Alex

11 months

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mailing list move

by Peter Saint-Andre

We're in the midst of moving this email discussion list from one server to another. You might be asked to re-confirm your subscription. Peter

11 months

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XMPP Market - Announcement of a new event

by E.M.

Dear all, I am announcing a new event - The XMPP Market! The XMPP universe is a network of diverse solutions with also a wide spectrum of motivations, products, projects but of course also people and their ideas. However, due to the nature of a federated network most projects are not presented in a connected context. The purpose of this event is to have an open, regular and exposing promotion event that allows everyone with their solution, software, products and effectively XMPP client’s within the XMPP eco-system to present to their users. The focus is on simple communication, product features, ideas and promotion to non-tech-savvy end-users. In general, the track is open to everyone that develops products within the XMPP universe of any kind. That includes also commercial products and sponsors using XMPP in their backend. The event is planned to take place four times per year respectively once a quarter. You can read more details and sign-up via this pad: https://pad.nixnet.services/LsEMiQBvQROi9prGk6oobQ?view Sign-up goes via this list (Please read the instructions and requirements first!): https://pad.nixnet.services/LsEMiQBvQROi9prGk6oobQ?view#Sign-up-list Let’s thrive communication federation and true interoperability! Eddie

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voting results & meeting minutes

by Alexander Gnauck

Hello, you can find the meeting minutes here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Meeting-Minutes-2025-03-06 All applicants and reappliers were accepted. You can find the updated memberlist here (after redeploy): http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/xsf-member-list/ A warm welcome to all our new member Benson Muite. 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

1 year

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Information: Winter of Code

by E.M.

Dear all, I would like to inform you about the existence of Winter of Code: https://winterofcode.tech/ It appears to be similar to Google Summer of Code. If that is of interest to anyone, please let me know. In that way, also the reminder about Outreachy: https://www.outreachy.org/ Best regards, Eddie

1 year

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Fwd: [Board] Open Letter from the XMPP Standards Foundation: Support True Messaging Interoperability with XMPP

by Ralph Meijer

Dear members, We just put out this Open Letter to Meta with a call to action to support true messaging interoperability. Please find the associated blog post here: https://xmpp.org/2025/03/open-letter-to-meta-support-true-messaging-interop…. -- Cheers, ralphm

1 year

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Removing the XSF presence on Twitter/X

by Mathieu Pasquet

Good day everyone, The topic has come up in the xsf@ chatroom, and it has been suggested that we take this topic to the mailing list, so I will be doing just that. Twitter was never a spotless social network (is there any?), but it did allow at one point somewhat global communication; nowadays it is mostly a far-right echo chamber [1][2], that its owner (a man who is very used to racist dogwhistles [3][4], transphobic discourse [5], and other ways [6] of denying the humanity of a sizeable portion of the world’s population, essentially a 4chan troll, which is quite clear for anyone who has seen him tweet) is using to propel his nazi or nazi-adjacent champions [7][8][9] across the world in the hope that they win elections. My personal opinion is that staying there is not taking a neutral political stance., if that is something the XSF is interested in. Moreover, and this might be of interest to people all over the political spectrum (in a way that supporting human rights is sadly not anymore), the reach that the platform could allow is simply gone, because all the features and algorithms have been tweaked over the year to promote clashes, insults, and divisive content [10], something I do not believe the XSF wants to engage in. We are already on mastodon, with much better numbers (and probably more actual people), and if we are not on BlueSky we can either use a bridge to appear there, or open an account there and hope it will also be a decentralized network one day. I assume this needs a decision by the board or a member vote, so here I am. The topic came up last year [11] but I do not believe a decision was reached. I know the topic can be somewhat divisive, but I believe the mailing list can be a better venue to discuss it than the chatroom. Regards, Mathieu [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/15/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checks-verifica… [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk-x-trump-far-ri… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics) [4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/21/the-gesture-speaks-for-i… [5] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/elon-musk-twitter-transgender-hate-speec… [6] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/elon-musk-reveals-his-actual-tr… [7] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kez8d2dygo [8] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/01/10/on-x-elon-musk-n… [9] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-turned-x-trump-echo-cha… [10] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1elddq34p7o [11] https://logs.xmpp.org/xsf/2024-03-07#2024-03-07-3bb85c8d4955ac0d

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