18 Feb
2026
18 Feb
'26
7:21 a.m.
Topics that would be useful to discuss:
a) How to distinguish official XSF statements and actions from individual ones
announced to the XSF community as not everyone may check council and board
chat/email logs.
b) Legal considerations on hosting chat servers in different jurisdictions.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026, at 10:58 PM, Dan Caseley wrote:
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?)
Some time for discussion is good, but, it is helpful to have a few view points
on a topic briefly presented.
Dan
On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 at 18:28, Guus der Kinderen <guus.der.kinderen(a)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?
If there are sufficiently many people that can get to a location for a physical
event, those are good as well.
> - What kind of scope or duration would be
reasonable?
Being online for 8 hours can be tiring. Either have a single session of at
most 4 hours or two sessions of between 2-4 hours each with some stagger
in the timing to better accommodate people outside European time zones.
>
> 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.
If the summits are open to general public and not only members, maybe
helpful to use summit(a)xmpp.org for discussion and ask for feedback in
the newsletter.
The main focus is typically chat, but other use cases might also attract
interest, and having focus sessions on particular use cases might also
be useful.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Guus
>