XSF Communications Team - 2025-07-07

hi

i need to submit a screenshot

Benson, regarding the logo, perhaps you could also ask Raja Sandhu if he can suggest an alternative OFL-licenced font to use for the XMPP logo?

Which we'll then be free to use in other places as well

He would know best what factors he took into account when choosing the current font in the first place

Instead, let's first articulate what is actually the thing needed, and why, and present that to the Board. If the XSF is going to have a true logo, it would need to be commissioned by the XSF. Also note that I've already created tons of material over the years, including a table cloth, bean bag, clothing, bottle opener. All using the same font.

Oh, and banner

Fair enough. I suppose it would be clearer for us (me?) too once we've articulated what exactly the requirement is

As for licensing, the origin of the font is very nebulous, and the company that claimed copyright has been defunct for decades. Also, this font is free for personal use, which includes the use by non-profit organizations like us. We also don't sell swag (people make donations).

Oh, that's interesting about the licensing (and good to know)

if there aren't any actual valid liscensing issue, use the original font.

please.

Yes, but first that what/why

singpolyma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Sans created specifically to do Google's branding. Nothing else. With near infinite budjet they release new update every now and then yes. ✏

We need XMPP Sans

edhelas: we named it OPTI Edgar Bold Extended 🤣

Perfect 👌

By the way, for posters and hoodies I also used the non Bold one

ralphm: Because of these efforts: https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1518/files

gnemmi: I will read and merge now?

Hello everyone!

emus, so sorry for the late reply! Yes, please proceed!

emus: I can't review this right now

ralphm do you mean you have not time or you cannot access?

gnemmi - again great work! I just merged. Just a kind request: Create the PR on the xmpp repository ideally. otherwise web edit won't work. And the Italian Community should be under Events actually, right?

> gnemmi - again great work! I just merged. > > Just a kind request: Create the PR on the xmpp repository ideally. otherwise web edit won't work. > > And the Italian Community should be under Events actually, right? Great!. Thank you and everyone who took part on this edition!! ↺

badrihippo: could you and benson help me formulating a message to Board to elaborate the situation again?

>> gnemmi - again great work! I just merged. >> >> Just a kind request: Create the PR on the xmpp repository ideally. otherwise web edit won't work. >> >> And the Italian Community should be under Events actually, right? > Great!. Thank you and everyone who took part on this edition!! ❤️ ↺

In re the PR, I'm pretty positive that I followed the standard procedure as always .. meaning: PR against xmpp/master branch 🤔

in re the Italian Community: I didn't even get to see that one. I think badrihippo created it in a comment on the PR and cal0pteryx added it to the PR 🤔

Anyways, I'll make sure to double check that all future PRs are created against xmmp/master branch 👍

emus: no time and not near a computer to look at SVGs

Ah okay, yeah, we will write an email

> In re the PR, I'm pretty positive that I followed the standard procedure as always .. meaning: PR against xmpp/master branch 🤔 before you do, maybe next time let us know your planned steps ↺

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If one wants to create a PR with one or two additonal images to the blogpost that would be great!

Like adding this one under the Gajim entry? https://gajim.org/img/news/main-window-2.3.0.png

gnemmi, there was a "suggestion" on GitHub, which added the Italian Community entry. I applied the suggestion, that's all

> gnemmi - again great work! I just merged. > > Just a kind request: Create the PR on the xmpp repository ideally. otherwise web edit won't work. > > And the Italian Community should be under Events actually, right? I've web-edited the PR just fine, don't know which issue you've experienced, emus? ↺

cal0pteryx, Oh, I see .. i didn't even get to see that one ( I couldn't have much connection time this weekend so I never knew about that 😔 )

gnemmi, no worries, I took the liberty of applying that comment

emus, doing PRs from individual forks is the intended workflow, fyi

Yeah .. I kept looking around about that one because I also did at least 6 or 7 web edits ( from badrihippo and Benson ) and I dind't have any problems 🤔

most of them came from "suggestions" on the PR

You editing your own fork should not be an issue in any case :) It _can_ be a problem for others to edit your fork. But that worked fine for me in the past.

Oh .. understandable ..

Hmmm, I could not this time for some reason

Oh .. and just for the record. You guys, I don't have write access to the repo (commit rights), so there's so much that I can do ..

I can do PR's and make edits on them and so on .. but that's as much as I can do

I can't smash the bugs, or add tags or anything other that submitting PRs

Let alone doing merges ..

I just wanted to clear that out in case you ever happen to be waiting for me to do anything other than creating the PR and doing changes on it

> I just wanted to clear that out in case you ever happen to be waiting for me to do anything other than creating the PR and doing changes on it Ah, that's good to know, I somehow thought you could do merges :) ↺

I mean, it's not like Im being lazy or anything like

That was the point I as trying to convey

It's great having you on the team, gnemmi! This is really helping :)

> Ah, that's good to know, I somehow thought you could do merges :) Yeah ... I kinda figure that out when I read your comments on the PR ↺

cal0pteryx, Thank you _so_ much! It really makes me feel great to be a part of this and work along with you guys! ❤️

Image added to Newsletter https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1536