[jdev] FOSDEM 2009, any xmpp?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Ralph Meijer wrote:
>> Last year there were as many rooms as the years before, but the
>> selection wasn't on first come, first serve anymore. With twice as many
>> applying projects as there are rooms, we didn't make it this year. I
>> hope that with the hightened attention to XMPP we will get a room this
>> year.
> 
> Stupid question from someone who only knows "normal" conferences: What
> happens in the XMPP room? I read about inter-opts and discussions. How
> does this work? There are so many interessting things going on, are
> there also some small presentations and demos? I would love to see
> Jabber going Social in action and my playing using XMPP as UPnP++ may
> also be interessting for some people.

Sure, presentations and demos are quite welcome. Our format has been a
bit different for each XMPP Summit. However, the first 4 were quite
small (~15 people). At the XMPP Summit 2 months ago we had 45 people! So
I think we need to plan a bit more for such a large group. For the XMPP
Summit at FOSDEM 2009 I think it would be good to have more hackfests
among smaller groups (e.g., some client developers working together on
Jingle, some other client and library developers working on end-to-end
encryption, some server developers working to test TLS+SASL, etc.). But
we would still have lots of time for presentations and discussion.

>> Besides that, the FOSDEM team welcomes suggestions for speakers for the
>> general tracks via a form on the site. We might want to propose a
>> speaker, too.
> 
> Maybe the speaker should point out what is going on here: Jabber going
> Social and the FSF seeking for a Skype replacement are good starting
> points.

Sure. I gave a keynote at FOSDEM 2007 on XMPP security, so I don't know
if they'd want me back, but I'm always happy to give a talk about our
technologies.

Peter

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