[Members] Chat of the Future Initiative

Dear all, the XSF Communication Team is pleased to announce a new initiative to help evolving the XMPP ecosystem in a broader and aligned perspective. This should cover discussions, development but also extended public communication and presence. As this is being setup in an iterative way its participants will be able to form and steer the collaborations direction over time. You can read the full blog post here: https://xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-future-initiative/ After a number of questions let me elaborate a bit more. So, when you join the session(s) we will have a interactive collaboration board present where we will conduct different exercises. We start with basically exposure and a discussion of the networks status quo is as everyone sees it from their corner. If you have ideas of what you would like to change, you can just propose those. Ideas could be for example that members from the XMPP community are interest in an organised (regular?) interoperability meeting on certain XEPs. Others think of more engagement along encryption or building a better landing page for developers. In the end, all those great ideas and constructive feedback can be brought to the first session, but also at a later point. Out of this, the round will form a collaborative direction that anyone interested can join, commit and contribute to. There are more and other directing and hopefully fun exercises of this nature and we will collect, review and discuss ideas that could be worth moving on within a couple of months. Ideas, to be shaped in smaller activities, with no long time frames but effective outcomes that the ecosystem benefits at user or (new) developers level. We hope this is a motivating opportunity for the XMPP network and help us to step ahead all together. We also believe that such a collaboration can enable the network to evolve and gain new momentum and result in strong benefits for all actors. Feel free to comeback with your thoughts already. Best regards from the Communication Team, Eddie