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1. Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 05:07:01 JST Daniel Gultsch

   What is the #XMPP Summit and should you go? 🧵

   The XMPP Summit is a two day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). It is not a conference. There are no presentations. It is more like a round table discussion and active participation is encouraged.
   Similar to an unconference at the beginning of Day 1 participants can suggest topics and others can indicate (via a +1) whether or not they are interested in that topic. Afterwards a rough order of topics is established

   • Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 05:06:56 JST Daniel Gultsch

     in reply to

     • monal-im.org :xmpp:

     At the #XMPP Summit − after a topic is well-discussed and a rough consensus reached − someone needs to volunteer to write the XEP.

     Last year, I volunteered to write the XEP for synchronizing read states across devices.

     It's called Message Displayed Synchronization and is now in Last Call, where community feedback is gathered before a XEP becomes 'stable.'

     https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0490.html

     Prototype implementations are in @Monal and #Conversations_im.

   • Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 05:06:57 JST Daniel Gultsch

     in reply to

     If you don’t consider yourself a developer but rather an enthusiastic user or admin we regularly have booths at various conferences (FOSDEM, CLT, FrOSCon, …) that are a great opportunity to meet us.

     If however you are a developer and always wondered what standards mailing list discussions would look like IRL you can find more information on the Summit here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_27

     Gajim repeated this.
   • Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 05:06:58 JST Daniel Gultsch

     in reply to

     Interoperability is a big part of what makes #XMPP great. However agreeing on a common strategy or even establishing a rough priority for certain features can be hard.
     I believe those in-person events do a lot in getting us on the same page.

     If you are an XMPP developer (client, server, gateway) I strongly encourage you to come.

     I keep saying 'developer' and use that as a shorthand for: To get the most out of the summit you should have a background in reading (and maybe even writing) XEPs.

   • Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 05:06:59 JST Daniel Gultsch

     in reply to

     If you have ever followed a thread on the standards mailing list or participated in a discussion on the public XSF channel it is a bit like that only in person.

     The different topics are broken up by short breaks that are great for networking and getting to know other XMPP developers. (Think hallway discussion at other conferences.)