XSF Discussion - 2024-02-09

Hello to all, I was wondering if the community could help me to start understanding the xmpp/rfcs make up the core and where to begin implementing the protocol

tmp: what are you looking to do?

Implementing the core

For what purpose?

I want to later integrate teams,discord and irc into a centralized system, as far as implementation I want to do it in rust to later compile it down to wasm

The wasm part is to make it portable on all archs and web

The wasm part is because I want to later make it a rs package and also a wasmer package

You may be interested in slidge. It's a server side component to bridge discord, whatsapp, telegram, that stuff. There isn't yet a teams version

Biboumi is a bridge for irc ✏

Nice thanks for the info

tmp, you might want to look into xmpp-rs as well

Is there a list of xmpp bots (news, device control, software hooks, etc.) somewhere? I was wondering whether we should have a "Bot" section in https://xmpp.org/software/

I think the closest currently is 'Tools'

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It just dawned on me one thing where Matrix, Mastodon and the ActivityPub crowd in general perhaps have a leg up compared to XMPP is that them being web-based, they managed to more easily draw in some web designers and so managed to make a more modern looking UI/UX faster.

Yes, these days 98% is web 🕸

FOSS in general is notoriously bad when it comes to UX polish, so the few exceptions stick out.

Good thing xmpp can also be web based easily

And, yes, web design is easier to get a hold off and often easier to implement

> Good thing xmpp can also be web based easily Sure. But it might make sense to fund better UX for clients - both web and native.

Key word here is "fund"

But the xsf doesn't fund single apps

Snikket web dev thing on the other hand...

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-sdk&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjVzMLS0Z6EAxX-SvEDHae2CzIQFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw3xpoD-AypaKKQ75RrEcXZ_

The XSF is too neutral to even promote specific clients, let alone give them money (and also the money has to come from somewhere)

Oups sorry for the evil link

https://snikket.org/blog/simply-secure-collaboration/ might be of interest

> Key word here is "fund" Agreed. But if XSF can’t we might need to find someone else. NLnet is a common option, but that’s grant-based. One option would be for individual clients to set up a fiscal sponsor account if they don’t have their own organisation already.

Silly idea: would a HID/UX XEP be out of scope of the XSF or not?

That's modernxmpp.org

I think XSF might be willing to act as fiscal sponsor for client and server projects

Which is different from giving them money and much more neutral

Well it isn't, neutral, but whatever

I said more neutral :p conceivably nonfree members could object to fiscal sponsorship of mostly free software projects or something like that. But in practice i don't think that's likely to be an issue

nonfree members generally have money so sponsoring free software solutions that aren't already backed by nonfree entities would make it slightly more balanced already :)

> And, yes, web design is easier to get a hold off and often easier to implement hook: you can make a XMPP client totally with "web" tech and design though ↺

moparisthebest: I know, there's a few already. Just saying that it feels like many ActivityPub projects seem to have caught the hype wind and through mostly aesthetics gathered a crowd. Many lack most features, but _look_ polished, so people flock towards that. (IMHO, ICBTW)

I'm not sure I buy that, but it's reasonable