XSF Communications Team - 2023-01-30

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

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

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

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

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

Will the 25th XMPP Summit be streamed? ✏

Licaon_Kter, we hope so

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

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

Great

MattJ: done

Thanks!

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

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

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

Yes, pretty much all FOSDEM talks are recorded and streamed

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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"...

> 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"... 😊

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

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

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

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

goffi: ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

goffi: congrats

thx

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

great matt

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

We can organize those for next year

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

Definitely

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

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

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.

the Snikket flyer looks specially good.

and perfect for FOSDEM with the raspeberry pi mention

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

> 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

maybe also unifed scheme just with different app data

goffi: yes, exactly 🙂