XSF Communications Team - 2023-01-23

https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/XMPP%202023%20news%20round%20up%20-%20draft%202.pdf This is a draft of something I'm planning to print for the stand at FOSDEM.

goffi, papatutuwawa, singpolyma: there are pieces about your projects, so if there's anything you'd like me to change/correct, let me know

+ jcbrand ^

MattJ: neat, thanks for doing that. I'll change the official website from salut-a-toi.org to libervia.org before FOSDEM, thus it would be good to change the URL (there will be redirection though).

Hi MattJ, there's been an electron version of Converse since much longer, so it's not 100% accurate

goffi, great, yes, that would be less confusing indeed :)

jcbrand, how much do you care? (this is marketing material after all, rather than a technical spec)

Unless you want to also promote the Electron version still

I think the people who created the electron version and maintain it might care

Okay

I'll find another way of wording it then

The second page is supposed to be blank?

Not super important IMO, but you asked for feedback. I would probably just mention that it already has an electron version and now gets Tauri as well

(or is it my reader failing)

pep., the second page isn't supposed to be there, sorry

Ok

But it is there, and blank

And leave the rest as is

MattJ: Thanks for including my client 😄️ The only thing I would correct is that my client is not called "MoxxyV2". It's just "Moxxy". I recently renamed the repositories because it seems to confuse people.

A lot of people don't know about the electron version either, so the title can stay the way it is IMO

papatutuwawa, great, I'll fix that

hot take: justified take is ugly :x

Otherwise thanks for doing this :)

Yeah, space is limited though

I'm not set on it, but I have limited time

I guess we could reuse/update stuff like this also for JDLL, or other coming conferences

It's always good to have a base

justified text* ><

I also want to say thanks for taking the time to create this 😄️

Thanks :)

My goals are to show people that XMPP is busy, and introduce them to a range of projects they may not know exist

There are more I could have included, but time and space... maybe next year we can go bigger :)

Also if anyone wants anything printed (even/especially if you won't be at FOSDEM), I can get stuff printed if you send it to me in the next few days

e.g. edhelas sent me some posters for Movim

We have stands for A5 format. Last time they only contained Snikket flyers, but I'm hoping we can get a more diverse range of projects on display this year

And there's lots of people in K1, at least you'r not in that small corner of the building :P

People had to know there was something going on there

We'll no longer be able to capture people as they try to obtain refreshments from the vending machines

or find the elevator

In case of doubt: I'm not saying the new position is worse

I'll reserve judgement until we've tried it :)

I agree the old place was definitely "hidden", and often blocked by people, though I think it had some advantages. But even just being in a new location is probably a good thing.

I don't know if there will be space for the projector this year

If we're where I think we are, IIRC the "wall" behind us is actually just glass

The old place wasn't great IMO

IMO foot traffic of people passing by is better than the odd refreshment seeker, and we had very little foot traffic (due to being tucked away around the corner)

I also think that the old location was not really good.

MattJ: will there a place where we can print something, like a schedule? As I don't make talk this year, I was wondering maybe we could schedule demos on the booth?

Yeah, we could definitely do that!

I was thinking of a sheet with a schedule of XMPP-related talks

We can include demos on that

I'll see if I can print some flyer too, unfortunaly with the name change and all, I think that I can't reuse my current stock.

jcbrand, this revision better? https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/XMPP%202023%20news%20round%20up%20-%20draft%203.pdf (also incorporated other feedback)

Great, thanks MattJ !

goffi, do you want to commit to demo times in advance?

I currently have this:

https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/screenshot-20230123-1674479451-20987.png

oh I was thinking about something handwritten on the spot, but that's nice of course. I need to check the talks that I want to see, but in any case I would rather do it on Saturday cause I'll have to leave to catch my transport on Sunday afternoon.

I can (and was planning to) leave space to write stuff on when we're there, so it's fine

MattJ: I agree with pep. that it would probably look better without the justified, especially on such small columns.

https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/XMPP%202023%20news%20round%20up%20-%20draft%204.pdf

MattJ: looks great

For the schedule at the stand, this: https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/screenshot-20230123-1674483006-15285.png

I think I'll write a very quick blog post after lunch for xmpp.org with links to talks and resources, and put a QR in that space at the top right

That will give people a path to find the talks easily if they are using a schedule app for the conference (which supports reminders, room finding, etc.)

and the blog post will also serve as an announcement we'll be there

MattJ: why did you add "/news" at the end of https://libervia.org ? just libervia.org is fine.

otherwise it's great

random note: it's bit weird to see XSF on fosstodon and twitter, but not on… XMPP :-/.

Yeah I agree.. the XSF should really dogfood their own protocol :/

goffi, because the article is about the ActivityPub gateway, which is not mentioned at all on https://salut-a-toi.org/ but is on https://salut-a-toi.org/news

oh OK I see. I should probably add ActivityPub somewhere in the frontpage, but I'll wait it to be stable first.

> MattJ: > 2023-01-23 01:00 (GMT+01:00) > My goals are to show people that XMPP is busy, and introduce them to a range of projects they may not know exist 👍👍

MattJ, is this going to be distributed btw? Or displayed here and there?

I plan to give away copies of the newsletter

> MattJ: > 2023-01-23 03:11 (GMT+01:00) > I think I'll write a very quick blog post after lunch for xmpp.org with links to talks and resources, and put a QR in that space at the top right please, but may I review?

pep., goffi: what exactly do you want to see?

> MattJ: > 2023-01-23 04:21 (GMT+01:00) > I plan to give away copies of the newsletter mee too 😊

to see?

or we make something out of the highlights collection

> pep.: > 2023-01-23 04:26 (GMT+01:00) > to see? you said something about twitter

We said something about the XSF not advertizing XMPP communication channels

Fwiw I'm not saying it had to be on this exact flyer, unless we're talking about MUC (which is also fine). I just think it'd be good to finally think about using pubsub/microblog

> pep.: > 2023-01-23 04:27 (GMT+01:00) > We said something about the XSF not advertizing XMPP communication channels But atually I do

Ah?

I posted for Gsoc and Summit via mail and chats

Ok, I guess we're talking about stuff like this flyer or newsletter content or..

-this flyer, newsletter content really, blog articles etc.?

goffi, ^

emus: I would like to see XSF publishing to XMPP microblog

which really should not be called microblog, so let's just say XEP-0277.

pep.: Yes, but I used to drop it in the official xsf mucs too. I wonder if I should spam other chats

goffi: if you help me with this I would support it

emus: most important is to have an account with decent pubsub service (any up-to-date XMPP server should do it), then you can either use Libervia or Movim to post on it. I can help you with Libervia sure. Will you be at summit/FOSDEM?

goffi: yes!

lets get that started

cool, let's find some time there then. I'll be in Brussels from 1 to 5.

me too :-) soo much time. I will not really have big schedule, so I go with you. what about Thu, 1pm

Thursday is in the middle of the summit isn't it? I guess we'll have either lunch, demo, or heater discussion on MUC vs MIX at this time.

MattJ: I could add a frontpage banner on xmpp.org, linking to your blog post (like we had for some sprints)

Ah, that would be great :)

PR submitted for the blog post: https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1236

wurstsalat: when do we get matt's list nicely rendered? :-)

Neat, even the Khronos Group is following us now :)

and we have soon 2500 followers on Mastodon 📈️

emus: yes, I'll do that later this evening :)

☺️

Should be online soon :)

> wurstsalat: when do we get matt's list nicely rendered? :-) emus: which list?

🫣 my bad

MattJ: You rendered a pdf with complainace of clients some weeks ago?

https://spacecloud.one/upload/326584b7-fdcd-46db-bb78-14b680349dd7/XQxaJbnoST-ZmJzIWWX4uw.jpg

emus: this one?

yup :-) we need our doap jedi

btw beagle has a new logo right?

no, siskin https://xmpp.org/software/clients/siskin-im/

wonder if it makes sense to print all clients with logos and qr codes

Beagle IM has a new logo, too https://xmpp.org/software/clients/beagle-im/