Thank you to new and returning XSF sponsors
We'd like to say a big "thank you" to two companies who have recently signed up as sponsors of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
Erlang Solutions are a new XSF sponsor who specialise in providing businesses with scalable solutions via the creation, integration, delivery and lifetime support of products and ...
Posted by willsheward on February, 16, 2015 - filed under misc
It’s all about choices and control
"Why should I use XMPP?” is a question we get asked a lot. Our answer is often technically-focussed, as there are plenty of reasons XMPP might be the right choice, or we might explain about the benefits of a federated approach - where everyone can run their own server and control ...
Posted by laura on January, 26, 2015 - filed under misc
XMPP Summit 17
The 17th XSF Summit is approaching!
On January 29th and 30th 2015, just before FOSDEM2015. members of the XMPP community will be gathering at the Cisco offices in Diegem, Brussels to talk about all things XMPP.
Our agenda is evolving but so far includes:
- XMPP-IoT, Current state of the IoT ...
Posted by joachim.lindborg on January, 08, 2015 - filed under misc
Upcoming events
Until our new website launches with a dedicated 'whats on' section, I wanted to share some events coming up that might be of interest to our community.
Rikard Stridof Clayster is speaking at 2 events in June, focussing in on XMPP and IoT.
Fo those of you over in ...
Posted by laura on May, 30, 2014 - filed under misc
Happy Encrypted Network!
Today, a large number of services on the public XMPP network permanently turned on mandatory encryption for client-to-server and server-to-server connections (there's a fine summary here).
This is the first step toward making the XMPP network more secure for all users.
Stay tuned for more updates as we work ...
Posted by stpeter on May, 19, 2014 - filed under misc
XMPP on the Global Internet of Things Day
The 9th of april is the Global IoT day (Internet of Things day) on the site iotday.org and on iotlive.org events and meetups around the world are celebrating and connecting live devices.
#IoTDayStockholm is coordinating several schedules from events in different time zones and will be having workshops ...
Posted by joachim.lindborg on April, 07, 2014 - filed under misc
Security Notice: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with Highly-Compressed XMPP Stanzas
The XMPP Standards Foundation has published a security notice describing an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in several XMPP server implementations that support application-layer compression. Details can be found at http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/.
Posted by stpeter on April, 04, 2014 - filed under misc
Third Security Test Day
Tomorrow sees the third security test day.
Security test days help XMPP operators test-run with strong encryption settings prior to the big encryption switch-over scheduled for 19 May 2014.
A large number of XMPP sites have already signed up to the ubiquitous encryption manifesto. More so, some of the participating ...
Posted by stpeter on March, 21, 2014 - filed under misc
Google Summer of Code 2014
While the XSF may not be mentoring a project in this years Google's Summer of Code 2014 - we sure can celebrate and shout about the fact that some of the projects include XMPP as part of their project ideas!
The Jitsi project has several projects relating to WebRTC, XMPP ...
Posted by laura on February, 28, 2014 - filed under misc
Second Security Test Day
This Saturday (February 22, 2014), XMPP site operators are again flipping the "encrypt all traffic" switch.
This is the second of four test days kicked off by the manifesto first published last fall. The aim is to encrypt all traffic between servers and clients on the public, federated XMPP network ...
