Another episode of the XMPP sprints series happened this weekend close to Stockholm in the Nacka prefecture, in a house we rented. Significant improvements to the sprint infra this time are sauna and crêpes! We worked together on improving a new groupchat bookmarks specification, file transfer interoperability issues, and a future landing page for new XMPP users! As usual, every developer meetup comes up with its share of bug fixes, new ideas, and improvements. Read more

Une traduction française est disponible sur le blog de JabberFR. On this weekend of Bastille day some of us gathered and worked around some interesting new features in XMPP implementations. Wisolv – tailor-made software development company – generously sponsored the venue and provided us with their office in Villeurbanne (next to Lyon). I think most of us are happy with this sprint, we managed to get quite some work done. On the agenda were DOAP, Message Reactions, Occupant-id, various fixes and discussions, also including work on a Jabber client for Haiku! 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