The XMPP Standards Foundation: 2025 Annual Meeting and Voting Results Every year the members of the XSF get together to vote on the current quarter’s new and renewing members. Additionally, elections for both [XMPP Council](https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#council) and [Board of Directors](https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/#board) have been held.

This year’s election meeting wa ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat

Good news for anyone building messaging infrastructure in Europe: Denmark&aposs Council presidency is abandoning mandatory detection orders in the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) proposal for now. The proposal was nickna ... ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe's Digital Sovereignty Paradox - "Chat Control" update

October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency&aposs hope to g ... ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Dan is voted in the XSF's Council! Our very own @danc was voted into the XMPP Standards Foundation Council not to long ago!

The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messagin ... ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Co-Op Ideas This is a list of co-ops I’d like to start one day and where (if applicable).

Physical Businesses

DIY Bike Kitchen (Cobb County, GA)There is a DIY bike shop, Sopo Bike Co-op in Atlanta, but Cobb has historically been very transit-averse and it’s hard to get into Atlanta by bike if you need to get it worked on. Having something local to Cobb could encourage biking and start to change attitudes to biking on the local city councils and among the county commissioners.Traditional bik ... ⌘ Read more