XSF Communications Team - 2019-09-25

Newsletter in the making and you can contribute to it too! Tweet back with your articles and news before the end of this week!

we'd better tweet it today

Ok perfect nyco !

scheduled for this afternoon

I'm copywriting now

Subject/title for the October newsletter: Prepare for FOSDEM, modern XMPP features, and more news

please help me find better

FOSDEM 2020 Feb, modernization of XMPP, and more...

please review and edit: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Basic_communication_guide_for_XMPP_techies

nyco, do you want to mention FOSDEM from now until the event happens?

Ralph Meijer, chairman of the Board of Directors of the XSF, has written an introductory piece about "XMPP Message Attaching, Fastening, References" that are specifications in progress. good enough?

yes, so we prepare as a community ?

JabberFr, the French XMPP/Jabber community, has again translated the XMPP newsletter in French, merci beaucoup. could be improved?

> For the poor lonesome techies, we wrote a very minimalistic communication guide, could be worth for some. how is it?

Ralph Meijer, chairman of the Board of Directors of the XSF, has written an introductory piece about "XMPP Message Attaching, Fastening, References", specifications currently in progress (I would say, but yours is not bad or anything, just my take)

> Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Dino, please update as soon as possible. probably too simple

changed, thx SouL

> As usual every year, that time has come: we proudly announce the XMPP Summit 24 and the FOSDEM. The 24th XMPP Summit will happen on Thursday 30th and Friday 31st of January, and the FOSDEM will be held on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of February. Prepare for the community gathering.

> Réda Housni Alaoui is reviving the formerly dormant Vysper XMPP server, please pronounce "whisper". what do you think of this text?

> Xabber Server v.0.9 alpha is released, with quick installation and management panel, and interesting innovations. how about that?

nyco, would you think using something like https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/RWzuCOWMNcOk+aW9c8fcHH3E/ would help to work and review the newsletter?

> The Fastpath Service plugin has been released in versions 4.4.4 and 4.4.5., bringing support for managed queued chat requests, such as a support team might use. and this?

sure SouL

tooling is not in debate

collboraiton is

who's willing to collaborate?

I'll make the switch IF I get help

I won't make the switch IF there is no help

so we collect on the wiki, copywrite on a pad, move it to GitHub, then the newsletter editor

suboptimal I would say

rather painful for me

adding a link in the chain is intuitively adding a pain point

How do you want to do it?

I'm doing it on the wiki

how will you collaborate?

(will you?)

over time, the XMPP Journal, the XMPP Roundup, the XMPP newsletter has traditionally been a one man effort that can change for the bext

for now the process is super manual, quite heavy and error-prone

btw TinyLetter uses some kind of weird WYSIWYG editor

I'm a bit sad to hear that, I even wrote some newsletters, the reason I didn't take the lead is because I'm not able to do that. I unfortunately work for a company, which limits my time, I'm new in a country and I have to learn the language and many other things. I don't think I even should tell this, if I ask about how to collabrate is because I'm already doing it, depending on how much I can do it. If you can write more than me, at least I can always have my eyes and help reviewing, if I can write, then I can leave it written and you can review it. But if there is no protocol in place, of course is difficult for other people to help out

sorry

the tools we have are here

it's not about you

it's not about time and capacity

but the commTeam is not a team

there are doers, and the others

I just need to know I can edit the newsletter without having conflicts while you do it, etc

> MongooseIM 3.4.1 is out now with and important security upgrade, fixing a vulnerability that increased the chance of a cluster node crash. Read the whole thread on Twitter for more precise info.

you can

I am editing one section at a time

never the whole page

so, I wrote the servers

now I'm on the clients

please select the section you wanna work on

btw

Dino is in the section, MongooseIM in the servers section both has security updates I guess Dino should go in the clients section right?

I think so yes

> Profanity, the console/terminal app, has been released in version 0.7.0 after five months of work, followed by a [https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/releases/tag/0.7.1 0.7.1 bug fix release.

> In case of internet shut down, whether by disaster or voluntarily, peer networks are useful. Monal uses Airdrop (wifi and bluetooth) along with XMPP and OMEMO end-to-end encryption.

ok, I moved the Dino vulnerabilities in the clients section, and moved the Monal/Airdrop in articles

> Converse, the web app for team chat, has been released in versions 5.0.2 and 5.0.3 fixing security issues among others. A Converse Docker image has been released by odajay, and Agayon has released a plugin to verify HTTP Requests via XMPP.

> The Android chat app Conversations has been released in version 2.5.8.

I stop the editing of the clients section

I think I has finished the copywriting

new this month: * "new this month" section * license * credits * planning for editors * more friendly title/subject

I'm sad there are no illustrations

ok, uploaded two images on third party image hosting services

how can we upload images on our wiki? (not configured, I guess?)

I'm going through it now on the lunch break

nyco, if I would like to edit something, should I edit it right away, or paste it here and discuss it?

as you wish

what's best

277 subscribers to the newsletter

aaand, the last tweet is posted: https://twitter.com/xmpp please RT

you may wanna react to this: https://twitter.com/nyconyco/status/1176839901083557888

There's a lot of unclarity on the communication around Kik yesterday

So one article (by Ted Livingston) says, among other things, that they are shutting down Kik. Another talks about alledged fake text messages from him about the topic, resulting in a retracted post over at coindesk

In any case, my view on it is that a) they had a lot of users b) having a single company be able to pull the plug on it is terrible.

(and c) a lot of people feel entitled to the continuance of the platform, while probably not paying for it in any way)

All in all it doesn't like the best way to communicate things.

look like

According to statistics published by the Kin Foundation, they had between 10 and 15 million monthly active users

nyco: ^

yep

see the thread with Andrew

I've been through the newsletter and edited here and there, nyco. Thank you for the big task. I haven't added a catchy subject yet, not sure right now what to say. One thing though, do you feel we should call it October edition? Even if we send it in October, I would prefer to call it September edition (or send it the last day of the month). It is just more logical to me, what do you think?

let me check

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It is just because we are talking about what has happened in September. If I say "September edition" my brain connects it to events in September

ok then, it would be better to send it before the end of the month

let's keep the date to the 1st of October this time, and call it September indeed

Yes yes, is not a problem to publish it the 1st of the next month

I'd prefer to finish the month, and send it on the first Tuesday or Wednesday of following month

For some reason in particular? Is what magazines do?

middle of week is the peak of attention and productivity

Ah, well, yeah that's right

Wed is max, then come Tue and Thu

that's why I prefer Tue or Wed

it leaves time for reader to open and read it

Tuesday is a good day

yep

The day when is published is not a problem for the name, so I'm very much +1 for Tuesdays!

ok

TODO https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/search-plugin-1-7-3-released/86207 added

Damn you're fast.

Openfire also got a release today

As did the monitoring plugin