XSF Communications Team - 2025-05-04

badrihippo, cal0pteryx: We actually also have an article section, right?

gnemmi: Shall I call for review / setup the PR?

emus, I didn't think the NLnet grants quite qualified as an article...

Though I suppose they could if that's how you do it

Ok, yeah spftware is fine too ↺

By the way emus if you're adding the "Fiscal Host" section can you use the new Prav link https://opencollective.com/pravapp rather than https://opencollective.com/prav-ios? We (Prav) messed up and got the iOS thing as a separate project but "pravapp" is where we've consolidated all our other fundraisers

Yes, do as you think its correct

There's no fiscal host section yet in the current draft; should I add one? I can copy over from last newsletter and cross-check (assuming there's no automated way this happens)

> badrihippo, cal0pteryx: We actually also have an article section, right? We do. And NLnet grants go under ## Software news *only after the project makes an official announcement* on their respective blogs or news outlets ↺

See Monal on https://xmpp.org/2024/07/the-xmpp-newsletter-june-2024/ and https://xmpp.org/2024/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2024/ as just one example

We should never publish information that a project hasn't decide to make public by themselves. Specially information regarding how any given project gets funded. ✏

There's always a reason why a project ( be it Dino or Kaidan in this particular case ) decides *not* to make that information publicly available and it's not on us to decide when nor how to disclose that information.

We collect and publishc public information for the different projects *only after* they decide to make it public.

We do not create the News .. they do.

I'll proceed to delete the NLnet related information from the pad, due to the fact that neither Kaidan nor Dino made any public announcements, and create the PR in a few hours from now

You can always add the NLnet information ( or any other piece of information for that matter ) on the Newsletter Review stage

Thanks gnemmi

cal0pteryx, you are very welcome! 🤗

cal0pteryx, just in case, do we support webp images or should I export them as jpg/png before adding them to the newsletter?

> We should never publish information that a project hasn't decide to make public by themselves. Specially information regarding how any given project gets funded. I think that not 100% correct. If you see something on NLnet or other public websites, also Github releases, I would treat it as public. its not our job to look for anything, but if you want to, you can do such news. What you should not do is to share informal information or hearsay. If you have doubts you can always ask the project owners of course. ↺

>> We should never publish information that a project hasn't decide to make public by themselves. Specially information regarding how any given project gets funded. > I think that not 100% correct. If you see something on NLnet or other public websites, also Github releases, I would treat it as public. its not our job to look for anything, but if you want to, you can do such news. > > What you should not do is to share informal information or hearsay. > > If you have doubts you can always ask the project owners of course. 👍 ↺

Got it. Will create the PR with the information "as is" and leave out to the team to decide what makes it in and what not. 👍 ✏

You are the team too :-)

Got it. Will create the PR with the information "as is" and leave it out to the team to decide what makes it in and what not. 👍 ✏

Im just a contributor!. Not even an XSF member 😊

Time to change this :-)

Draft: The XMPP Newsletter April 2025 created

https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1520

Newsletter April 2025 is ready for review!

Thank you everyone who helped! 🤗

edhelas, I really want to make sure you are OK with the pictures and the captions I used!. Please review!! 😹

gnemmi did you asked the cats ? 🙀

> Thank you everyone who helped! 🤗 ❤️ ↺

> https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1520 👍 ↺

> Newsletter April 2025 is ready for review! ❤️ ↺

shoot! I never asked for their consent !!! 😱 ✏

I sure hope I won't be getting a cease and desist for this 😔

Bob Cat sure looks like someone you don't want to mess with 😰

> Newsletter April 2025 is ready for review! lgtm ↺

Kris, thank you!