As someone who pushed for it at the Summit, I'm clearly in favour.
We got a lot of content covered in last month's Summit, and I can't believe it'd take a year to come up with that many ideas again.

- I can't think of any conference content that required physical presence, aside from seeing quite how eagerly someone had their arm up
- I think that keeping it runtime under a day would make sense, given folks will have home life commitments
- I think that unconference is ace, and we should keep that, but since time is more limited, we should do that async in advance (can Memberbot help with this?)

Dan

On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 at 18:28, Guus der Kinderen <guus.der.kinderen@gmail.com> wrote:
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