16 Jan
2026
16 Jan
'26
1:24 a.m.
* Daniel Gultsch <daniel(a)gultsch.de> [2026-01-15 13:28]:
People have reached out to DI.DAY and the website now
mentions XMPP in
a footnote of a footnote. People are trying to get them to clean up
the wording around that mention a bit but I’m afraid that is the
maximum we will get out of them. I don’t think they will publish an
official XMPP recipe.
I agree with that assessment (for now). I want to meet with the DI.DAY
folks at FOSDEM and to talk to them about how realistic an inclusion of
an XMPP recipe on the main page would be. To improve our chances I would
like to see the following happen ahead of FOSDEM:
1. Prepare (and maybe already publish) a blog post on xmpp.org,
- mentioning and linking the initiative (I don't consider linking to
them an endorsement of Signal, but rather an endorsement of
decentralized / federated communications, which fully aligns with
our goals.
- highlighting a few XMPP-based projects that are aimed at beginners,
with one paragraph each, and maybe something like an "easy / medium
/ hard" rating. I'm thinking of Quicksy, Snikket, weblin, maybe also
"regular" XMPP clients like Conversations and Monal.
- outlining whatever "network effect" functionality we have, like the
Quicksy directory, getting JIDs from address books, QR-code based
contact invitations, ...
I hope that user-oriented projects interested in a mention can provide
a logo and a paragrpah of intro to commteam within the next week.
My pessimist brain says that getting listed at DI.DAY will be hard
without a free, low-barrier, multi-platform client, but we can show our
best side and try.
2. Axel Reimer already wrote and published repsective recipes in German
that are close enough to what I would like to see,
under https://eversten.net/tags/xmpp/
I would like to add English translations and to use that material as the
basis for our own outreach initiative, in whatever ways are deemed
acceptable.
3. Prepare (and bring to FOSDEM) a pack of "How do I get XMPP" flyers or
leaflets, based on Axel's work. They should mention DI.DAY, and maybe
even be branded with the DI.DAY design (it is allowed to use their
styles and logos for projects that promote the digital independence
initiative, if they link to the DI.DAY site). The target audience IMO is
not so much FOSDEM visitors, but rather their friends and families. I
would like to provide the onboarding instructions for Quicksy and
Conversations/Monal, in English and German.
I plan to prepare these flyers, either privately or with an XSF mention,
if we can get SCAM / Board approval. In the latter case, it would be
also great to get them funded from the SCAM budget. Eddie kindly offered
to print them together with the "XMPP News 2025" flyers.
Kind regards
Georg