XSF Communications Team - 2026-01-17

Thank you all! 😇

Starting on the next round of editing now, so let's see how that goes

https://disroot.org/upload/019bcac2-ae74-7cb3-a0bd-abfdab5c0a13/xmpp-highlights-2025-draft4.pdf

I'll do the rest of the content in a bit; just edited Movim and added Monocles for now

As well as the other project icons 😅

By the way, do you think I can leave out the headlines and just have the body text straight away? Since it's only a line or two anyway. Would save quite a bit of space I think

If it works, would be good to split Monocles into 4 entries like Movim since each happened at a different time (I don't think it's all just one big operation)

4:15 am ... you caught me on last check on the phone before going to bed!

Let's take a look 😃

badrihippo, you are doing an awesome job .. it looks superb!

May I pitch in with minor suggestions? ✏

Sure, go ahead!

(And feel free to do it later, after you wake up, if you prefer 🙃)

*Major release of Slidge gateway Library* Slidge version 0.3.0 introduced: support for (optional) reaction fallbacks, moved a lot of gateway-wide settings to user-specific settings, check the “preferences” command (adhoc or chatbot-style) and support for pronouns in VCards.

shortened from 353 to 231 chars

Movim 0.30 Movim 0.31 Movim 0.32

*Movim 0.31* Implemeted the NLNet funded simultaneous webcam and screen sharing.

The thing is, "Movim v0.30 'Encke' released" isn't going to save any more space than "Movim 0.30" because we'll still have to reserve that space _in the current layout_

I just got another idea though: instead of headlines with larger text, I can just have them inline with the rest of the text but make them bold

That way shortening it will actually save space, and conversely we can shift all the important bits to "bold" instead of "normal" without taking up more space!

Wait let me implement it and then it'll become clearer 😉

> The thing is, "Movim v0.30 'Encke' released" isn't going to save any more space than "Movim 0.30" because we'll still have to reserve that space _in the current layout_ True. ↺

You are right .. I was thinking about consistency on the titles

Gajim and Dino are just perfect. Impecable job right there 💯

Same for NLnet funding

( Not to mention the cover and the back cover .. which look awesome)

I *really* love what you did there 💯 ✏

*ejabberd 25.08* gained a *mod_providers* to serve *XMPP Providers*. More Adoption of XMPP Providers in the XMPP Ecosystem & XMPP Providers Server Update. ✏

*Monocles Chat major features*

Plase, take all of them as simple suggestions

A bit more progress; bear with me while I re-add the icons. I included Libervia's updates too, though I'm yet to edit it properly. Will do all that after a break

https://disroot.org/upload/019bcb1c-66f5-7fb6-b66f-241fc6ba8133/xmpp-highlights-2025-draft5.pdf

The good news is the layout changes combined with gnemmi's editing have resulted in ample space for Libervia's entries (maybe with room to spare)! I will try to split up Monocles if I can; let's see

badrihippo, I'll stay here with you mate!

I'd get rid of all the instances of the word "releases" though

*Gajim 2.0.0*: a major redesign. The entire user interface toolkit has now been migrated to GTK 4.

*Dino v0.5* OMEMO encryption by default, improved file transfers, image preview and other file details before downloading, and two completely reworked dialogs.

*Movim 0.30*: the biggest Movim evolution in years. This update includes multi-participant calls, reactions displayed in the detailed message view, Unicode 15.1, plenty of new emojis and avatar change on contacts new Story.

*Movim 0.3.1*: implements NLnet founded simultaneous webcam and screen sharing.

*Movim 0.32*: One of the biggest releases ever made, it includes improvements in three major areas: instant messaging, social networking, and video conferencing.

*Conversations 2.19.3*: upgrades connection security. TLS 1.3 is now required by default for all connections with a setting to opt out.

*Slidge gateway to other IM networks*: versions 0.3.0 introduced support for (optional) reaction fallbacks, moved a lot of gateway-wide settings to user-specific settings, check the “preferences” command (adhoc or chatbot-style) and support for pronouns in VCards.

The layout looks great :) I like the title page and it's color gradient.

Since this is a rare occasion to see screenshots printed, wouldn't it be best to use the most recent ones? E.g. Gajim looks a bit different today, because it uses "Adwaita" now on top of GTK4

*Monocles Chat*: Gained a vcard profile editor allows you to share your profile as a simple business card via QR code. A chat overview calendar to easily jump to messages by date. Pin multiple messages. And “User Tune” to display which song you are currently listening to.

https://xmpp.org/images/newsletter/2025-07-05/gajm_new_look.png

cal0pteryx, that's the one I used for the Newsletter when Gajim introduced Adwaita

And, yes, I agree with you

Okay I lied; I went ahead and added the icons right away! I need to set the margins though. Also, Movim's having some issue renderig in Scribus that I need to debug and Monocles' colour has to be set but yeah otherwise all good

https://disroot.org/upload/019bcb34-%2026c-7b63-b4cf-e36efffa8c60/xmpp-highlights-2025-draft6.pdf

> cal0pteryx, that's the one I used for the Newsletter when Gajim introduced Adwaita Sure I can use this screenshot instead ↺

> *Monocles Chat*: Gained a vcard profile editor allows you to share your profile as a simple business card via QR code. A chat overview calendar to easily jump to messages by date. Pin multiple messages. And “User Tune” to display which song you are currently listening to. Just a side note. The profile vcard is also xep standardized and is synchronized in the contact details. Sharing as QR code is just additionally. ↺

badrihippo: great job. Also the title page! Two requests: - can you make a bit of more distamce between app logo and title? - can you rather use the xmpp provider logo. The xep once is more conntected to xsf xep updates

> *Slidge gateway to other IM networks*: versions 0.3.0 introduced support for (optional) reaction fallbacks, moved a lot of gateway-wide settings to user-specific settings, check the “preferences” command (adhoc or chatbot-style) and support for pronouns in VCards. I would still trim the slidge entry to look like this. Get rid of 0.3.1 or s/come/came ↺

And sort the Movim entries to be one after the oder as I posted them above ( it looks cleaner to me .. although, of course, I can always be wrong .. and most of the time actually am :| )

Also, here's the Movim logo I used for a presentation. It may be of help

https://share.conversations.im/gnemmi/message/RSrNVDWrN47hH3Kg/movim.svg

I don't even know where I got it from though =P

And the Monocles one ...

https://share.conversations.im/gnemmi/message/1joNgTufDVne6xvG/monocles-chat.svg

Thanks. And yes the Movim one works!

Is it the current logo though? The new one I got off the website looks more fancy

https://disroot.org/upload/019bcb88-b340-7bd6-9bc4-18c5d7eea7b5/movim.svg

Probably not .. the one I used was from early 2024

I'll just go into the SVG and try fixing the colours

> Also, here's the Movim logo I used for a presentation. It may be of help Theres a new logo ↺

> movim.svg Is it this one edhelas? ↺

https://github.com/movim/movim/tree/master/public/theme/img/app

You have everything there

https://github.com/movim/movim/blob/master/public/theme/img/app/logo.svg

Without background

Right, thanks!