XSF Discussion - 2023-02-03

Guus, are we talking about a new kind of hoodie or the same one as ~4 years ago?

Syndance, as you are in the summit: it are the ones that Alex and Link Mauve wearing yesterday (and maybe today - but the video of the summit currently is very low quality). Someone today is wearing something bright orange. I can't make out who it is, or for certain if it is the same sweater - but I assume that that's the orange variant.

I am wearing the orange one :D

Okay thanks

lol

I wonder where my orange one is hiding. Probably in plain sight but it's so visible it becomes invisible.

If that color does not stand out where-ever you're storing your clothing, then you might qualify as a honorary Dutch citizen.

Zash , yeah. I've got the same issue. I'm sure I have one somewhere, but since a couple of years ago it went into hiding.

Well, you _can_ restock today...

Guus: So the service providers have been removed from the .work site?

yes. Executive decision by new management.

(it was painful to migrate, was diluting the purpose of the site, and caused me to debate what does and does not qualify)

But I understood it should be a place to expose professionals and companies

too

I am interested in having a job board. I think that currently adds most value to the community (if we manage to get it populated with job listings). I don't see the need for a generic marketplace where people can find listings of companies that do "something XMPP". It's to vague. If you're looking for a service provider, then you'll very likely look with the specific technology or project that you're using. That's where listings like this one fills a need: https://www.igniterealtime.org/support/service_providers.jsp

My primary motivation is to get more people a job that pays them to work on XMPP.

Ok, but I still believe, exposing service providers and devs supports attention do we still have the list of the subscribers back then?

There were no subscribers. And there was no attention. I was on the list, it didn't give me any leads, that I could tell. Also, it didn't cause anyone to add content to the site.

I don't have the list of service providers anymore (they may still live on the old site, if JC didn't tear that down yet). It was mostly the usual suspects.

ok thx

We just reminded the round about: Membership Applications Q1 2023 https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q1_2023 ✏

MattJ can you share the video here?

the url

emus_at_summit, https://kumi.tube/w/1LQQp5Uia4u8Pdojxen1y8

thanks

winfried:

emus, do you know that you can have spaces in your nickname?

emus_at_summit could have been "Emus at summit"

Guus: habit 😅

its temporary anyway. and over now 😅 was a great experience!

Oh, right, it was your first wasn't it. If you're less exhausted at the end of it than I am, good going :)

Haha, I think I am, but I didn't joined most discussion, I assume way less than you :-)

and others

I've spent some time adding more jobs to xmpp.work - kind of hoping that it can serve as a conversation piece "see, XMPP is very hot&happening" at FOSDEM this weekend hint hint nudge nudge

Thanks Guus!

Good Guus

Kind of surprised by the amount of DoD-style jobs that I find, all over the world.

DoD?

Department of Defense

Civilian branch of the military, yes?

although I don't specifically mean the US DoD.

a significant amount of the jobs that I find this week require you to have some kind of security clearance. Found stuff in Australia, the Netherlands, France ...

If anyone has 15 minutes to spare: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/ and search for 'xmpp' in your locality. If you find a nice job, try to find the job listing on the website of the company that's offering it, and copy/paste that into https://xmpp.work - it's dead simple, but I could use the help, as it's labor intensive.

Im happy to toot it, please remind me if I dont

emus: maybe include a call-for-action in the toot: add your jobs here please.

ok!