TL;DR: Developers can already experiment with the slixmpp-omemo plugin. Please give us feedback on the tracker or in the channel! After almost a year since I started working on the OMEMO encryption mechanism support for Slixmpp, I am happy to finally announce a first release. I would like to get feedback. I am sure there are still plenty of things to improve, and so I encourage developers to bring out their inner vandal, break it and report their findings. Read more

This month, on August 18-19th, was held the first developer event in the XMPP community for a long time. The idea came up at the Gulaschprogrammiernacht, in Karlsruhe earlier this year, talking with Daniel Gultsch, and JC Brand. We gathered there to work on an implementation of the OMEMO encryption mechanism for Converse.js, and Poezio. Converse.js is currently seeing the changes merged. It’s taking a bit more time for Poezio, but we’ll get there. Read more

This is a translation of this article in French. Although Instant Messaging (also known as IM) has been in our everyday life for a while now, I am under the impression that we limit ourselves to old habits or features that we could update to offer our users innovative and modern services they all dream about. Here I will share some groundbreaking ideas of mine that flourished as I have worked for a few years in this field. Read more