XSF Discussion - 2019-01-21

So because this was derailed for multiple times already.... Apparently I can't send mails to board@, and there is no way to change it to bounce instead of silently consuming my mail. What is the *official* way to send mails to Board?

Ge0rG, shall I put the question on the board trello?

(when I get home)

jonas’: my naive hope is that one of the Board members or iteam happens to know that _before_ the next Board meeting.

Ge0rG: I will forward your e-mail to Board

The official way used to be sending e-mail to info@xmpp.org, but since we don't have an ED, there are some things that need fixed. This is one of them.

ralphm: alright, thanks very much. I've seen the info@ address mentioned on one of our pages, but thought it's going to Peter directly, which might not be the appropriate venue right now.

It is currently, so I'll have that changed.

I'll ask iteam to send it to me, too.

and probably Alex

ralphm: thanks for taking this up

> Applications will be accepted until end of business February 24th, 2019 Alex: was that supposed to mean "January", or are we having exceptionally long "two weeks" this Quartal?

Ge0rG: voting period is ~2 weeks, application period is longer. We don't have a fixed schedule for those quarterly application periods and member meetings. I am trying to align them better, but its sometimes hard for me because I have to travel to much

Alex: sorry, I didn't want to sound offensive, I just wondered about the time period.

Maybe there is a better wording for https://xmpp.org/community/membership.html then as well?

Ge0rG: no worries, I was late this time with announcing it. Tried to stay away from a computer over the xmas holidays, then it moved ;-)

Alex: the computer or the holidays? 😉

There are still people out there celebrating Julian Christmas.

Dear all. Guus has just sent two e-mails regarding the XMPP Summit. TLDR: 1) register (and remember!) your food choices for the XSF Dinner, 2) Sign up on the wiki if you are attending (needed for building access and wifi).

If you haven't gotten them: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit

ralphm: Is there an archive? I only just subscribed to the list, sorry.

See the second sentence

Syndace: https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/summit/

I think you'll find if you follow that link.

Changing the topic for a moment, are there best practices for use of the @xml:lang attribute in XMPP clients?

Thanks Ge0rG, I did not find it via the link (on mobile though)

Syndace: https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/summit/2019-January/001918.html and https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/summit/2019-January/001917.html

Ge0rG, goffi has been working on proper support in his client, I don’t think he wrote anything but a blog post though.

Syndace: that's surprising. It is the second sentence of the page I linked, to which you then responded. The page should be the same irregardless of the device you're browsing from. Do you have a screenshot?

It lead me to the registration form which I then used. Maybe it also contained a link to the archive but by registering I left the page.

I'll check

It does indeed, sorry again

no worries, just making sure it works properly

Syndace: also, I think your registration confirmation should have a link to the archive.

goffi, fyi, on https://www.goffi.org/ when I click on older articles at the bottom (which is quite hidden by the background btw) it puts me back to the same page.

The "welcome to the summit list" one does not contain a (direct) link to the archives but it contains a link that in turn links to the archive ^^ I guess I expected some hint where to find archives on the page you get to when you finish the registration.

btw, not so long ago there were talks of organizing another XMPP event(?) some kind of conference? Guus? Does that need any board seal of approval first?

pep.: IIRC it was a talk about making the Summit more conference'y, to improve the boss factor and get it paid. But also a dedicated track or conference for XMPP, but without a clear mission statement

That wasn't what I'd understood, FWIW.

Ge0rG, boss factor? :P

I've discussed both, with different people. 🙂

I'd be interested to help organising. I have no idea what's been discussed though, it'd be nice to clear this first

And yes, I once uttered that desire to have more than one bigger event - but that, as of yet, did not progress beyond the "I think it's a nice idea" phase.

pep.: the boss factor is what gets your boss to pay for your summit participation

pep. let's discuss this (later) in the SCAM muc, ok?

Guus, sure

today, I'm kind of swamped.

scam@muc.xmpp.org ?

yes