XSF Communications Team - 2023-01-30


  1. nicola

    Hi! Will there be someone from XSF at FOSDEM 2023? I would follow the event via streaming.

  2. Licaon_Kter

    At least MattJ iirc, he's printing flyers as we speak :))

  3. MattJ

    Yes, collecting them today hopefully... I'm travelling tomorrow 😬

  4. jonas’

    for the record: https://xmpp.org/2023/01/xmpp-at-fosdem-2023/

  5. MattJ

    emus, wurstsalat: I just submitted a PR to fix that blog post, would be great to have some 👀 and a merge: https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1237

  6. Licaon_Kter

    Will the XMPP summit be streamed?

  7. Licaon_Kter

    Will the 25th XMPP Summit be streamed?

  8. MattJ

    Licaon_Kter, we hope so

  9. MattJ

    It's a new venue we've not used before, and it won't be as well-equipped for A/V as the old one was, unfortunately

  10. MattJ

    But we're bringing some stuff so we can give it our best try

  11. Licaon_Kter

    Great

  12. wurstsalat

    MattJ: done

  13. MattJ

    Thanks!

  14. emus

    nicola: I dont know if there is anything being streamed at FOSDEM

  15. intosi

    Doesn't the FOSDEM video team usually manage these things for rooms?

  16. nicola

    > nicola: I dont know if there is anything being streamed at FOSDEM I saw the FOSDEM website, and something should be streamed

  17. MattJ

    Yes, pretty much all FOSDEM talks are recorded and streamed

  18. nicola

    Interesting thread about OMEMO here https://mastodon.nicfab.it/@nicfab/109777956240828055 Considering the technical issues raised by user 0 (shadowbanned), probably someone from XSF could intervene by providing some clarification.

  19. MattJ

    nicola, my personal (not XSF) policy is to not engage with this person. I would recommend that the XSF do the same. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and in my experience trying to have a rational argument with this person doesn't work well.

  20. MattJ

    They have extremely strong negative feelings about Signal and Signal's founder, and OMEMO is derived from the Signal protocol

  21. MattJ

    Nothing we can say to them about OMEMO from a technical perspective will change this

  22. Licaon_Kter

    If same 0 as usual, they like encryption, but PGP in bussiness context. They don't like having history gone, as omemo does if you don't port whole install, etc.

  23. nicola

    Ok. Thank you @MattJ and @Licaon_Kter for your feedback. I’ll take it into account. I always try to reply, but I cannot deepen technical aspects.

  24. Licaon_Kter

    nicola: they do like xmpp though, they said in the past they even have the same account for 20years or so. So while they're against the "fruits of silos"...

  25. nicola

    > nicola: they do like xmpp though, they said in the past they even have the same account for 20years or so. So while they're against the "fruits of silos"... 😊

  26. goffi

    Hey, I'm happy to announce that I've got a new grant to work on A/V calls implementation in Libervia

  27. goffi

    I'll do the implementation on web, desktop and CLI frontend.

  28. goffi

    https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia-AV/

  29. goffi

    But I'll do a blog post about it, so it's probably better to announce it in next newsletter, not the current issue.

  30. Licaon_Kter

    goffi: ٩(◕‿◕。)۶

  31. emus

    goffi: congrats

  32. goffi

    thx

  33. MattJ

    https://matthewwild.co.uk/share.php/3bba8a89-fa7e-40e5-a87d-fa92dc36cce5/IMG_20230130_173806660.jpg

  34. emus

    great matt

  35. Licaon_Kter

    MattJ: inside you have trial cd's for each app/service? :))

  36. MattJ

    We can organize those for next year

  37. wurstsalat

    Wow, that looks nice :) these should be hosted somewhere so Comm-Team can update those every once in a while

  38. MattJ

    Definitely

  39. MattJ

    Some of them I just received PDFs from others, I can upload the source files somewhere for the stuff I produced myself

  40. wurstsalat

    That would be nice! I always underestimate how nice things look when they are actually printed.

  41. goffi

    oh nice MattJ. I'm running out of time to give flyers myself unfortunately, but anyway the current version is not polished enough for end-user.

  42. goffi

    the Snikket flyer looks specially good.

  43. goffi

    and perfect for FOSDEM with the raspeberry pi mention

  44. goffi

    I like how XMPP is mentioned just on the side, there, but the flyer is not focusing on it. That's the right way to do IMHO, the XMPP logo should be a compatibility logo, like USB

  45. emus

    > wurstsalat: > 2023-01-30 07:16 (GMT+01:00) > That would be nice! I always underestimate how nice things look when they are actually printed. Even better would be to automatically render such stuff also for digital.distribution

  46. emus

    maybe also unifed scheme just with different app data

  47. MattJ

    goffi: yes, exactly 🙂