Hello everyone, It is that time of the year again, and the Chaos Communication Congress¹ is coming soon. I have registered an XMPP assembly - a way to have a fixed landing point with tables and chairs where people can chill, code, discuss about XMPP among other things - which has been accepted. This year, to ensure space is distributed somewhat fairly, Congress participants are asked to register an assembly with their tickets, so that organizers have a rough idea of what to expect. I am therefore asking any community member that is coming and plans to be there a significant portion of the time to set their assembly to the XMPP one with their tickets, so that we have the appropriate amount of space. We will be welcomed into the Critical Decentralization Cluster² habitat this year, and we are welcome to organize talks or workshops within the cluster, as long as there is still room for it (since it is getting quite late for proper planning). Cheers, Mathieu P.S. : I am in the process of making the assembly name change from "XMPP Assembly" to "XMPP" because the information is redundant. ¹: The congress is an annual hacker conference which is being held in Hamburg, Germany this year, between the 27th and the 30th of December (inclusive). Tickets are hard to come by and the official sale has already ended, though I don’t doubt some tickets will pop on the secondary official market every once in a while. For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress and https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/index ²: https://decentral.community/39C3/