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, the open standard of

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and presence of the

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History

The XSF was originally called the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF). The Jabber Software Foundation was originally established to provide an independent, non-profit, legal entity to support the development community around Jabber technologies (and later XMPP). Originally its main focus was on developing JOSL, the Jabber Open Source License (since deprecated), and an open standards process for documenting the protocols used in the Jabber/XMPP developer community. Its founders included Michael Bauer and Peter Saint-Andre.

Process

Members of the XSF vote on acceptance of new members, a technical Council, and a Board of Directors. However, membership is not required to publish, view, or comment on the standards that it promulgates. The unit of work at the XSF is the XMPP Extension Protocol (XEP); XEP-0001 specifies the process for XEPs to be accepted by the community. Most of the work of the XSF takes place on the XMPP Extension Discussion List, the mpp:jdev@muc.xmpp.org?join jdevand the mpp:xsf@muc.xmpp.org?join xsf chat room

Organization

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the XMPP Standards Foundation oversees the business affairs of the organization. As elected by the XSF membership, the Board of Directors for 2020-2021 consists of the following individuals: * Ralph Meijer ( XSF Chair) *Dave Cridland *Ralph Meijer * * * * Severino Ferrer de la Peñita *Arc Riley *Matthew Wild

Council

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The Council is elected by the members of the XMPP Standards Foundation each year in September. The XMPP Council (2020–2021) consists of the following individuals: * Kim Alvefur *Dave Cridland *Daniel Gultsch * Georg Lukas * * * Jonas Schäfer

Members

There are currently 66 elected members of the XSF.

Emeritus Members

The following individuals are emeritus members of the XMPP Standards Foundation: * Ryan Eatmon * Peter Millard (deceased) *

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* Julian Missig * Thomas Muldowney * Dave Smith

XEPs

One of the most important outputs of the XSF is a series of "XEPs", or XMPP Extension Protocols, auxiliary protocols defining additional features. Some have chosen to pronounce "XEP" as if it were spelled "JEP", rather than "ZEP", in order to keep with a sense of tradition. Some XEPs of note include: * Data Forms * Service Discovery * Multi-User Chat * Publish-Subscribe * XHTML-IM * Entity Capabilities * Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) *

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* Serverless Messaging

XMPP Summit

The XSF biannually holds a

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where software and protocol developers from all around the world meet and share ideas and discuss topics around the XMPP protocol and the XEPs. In winter it takes place around the

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event in Brussels, Belgium and in summer it takes place around the RealtimeConf event in Portland, USA. These meetings are open to anyone and focus on discussing both technical and non-technical issues that the XSF members wish to discuss with no costs attached for the participants. However the XSF is open to donations. The first XMPP Summit took place on July 24 and 25, 2006, in Portland.XMPP Summit 1

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:XMPP Standards Foundation Instant messaging Standards organizations in the United States Free and open-source software organizations Organizations based in Denver XMPP