Conferences/Summit 15

= XMPP Summit 15 =

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 15th XMPP Summit on January 30+31 2014 the days before FOSDEM 2014.

If you would like to participate in the Summit, please join the summit@xmpp.org discussion list and post with your participation request. Space is not infinite, but we will try to accommodate all requests.

= Agenda =

Possible topics:


 * Joachim Lindborg: IoT extensions currently in experimental. Discussion on the possibilities of IoT and XMPP other technologies and the opportunity for the XMPP community.
 * WebRTC (status etc)?
 * Google summer of code, what when who
 * Interoptesting

= Short Talks and General Updates =

Please post to the summit@xmpp.org list if you would like to volunteer. Here are some possibilities:


 * Joachim Lindborg: Hands on session with XMPP IoT devices try some XEP_0323 and 325 senosoring equipment
 * Steffen Larssen: TV/Media and XMPP: The possibilities. How to do second screen, remote logging etc.

= FOSDEM =

Unlike previous years, there will not be a Jabber/XMPP developer room at FOSDEM. However, we will have the Realtime Lounge, together with Jitsi. See FOSDEM 2014 for details.

= Participants =

The following people plan to be there in person: (H) means checkin on checkout on


 * Dave Cridland (H)
 * Sergey Dobrov
 * Yusuke DOI
 * Martin Hewitt (H) (Non-XSF Surevine)
 * Steffen Larsen (H)
 * Joachim Lindborg (H)
 * Philipp Hancke (H)
 * Richard Maudsley (H, summit-only) (Isode)
 * Ralph Meijer (H)
 * Edwin Mons (H)
 * Michal Piotrowski (H)
 * Will Sheward (H, Fri-Sun)
 * Kevin Smith (H)
 * Stefan Strigler (H)
 * Mike Taylor (bear) (H)
 * Winfried Tilanus (H)
 * Mili Verma (H) (Isode)
 * Ashley Ward (H)
 * Lloyd Watkin (H)
 * Laura Gill (H) (summit only)

The following people plan to participate remotely some or all of the time:


 * Valérian Saliou

= XSF Dinner =

As usual, the XSF will hold a dinner for XSF participants. The date, time and venue for the dinner is still TBD. XSF members attend for free and are allowed to bring one guest.

The following organizations and individuals have stepped up to sponsor the dinner:


 * [..]

= Logistics =

The venue is not finalized, yet, but the Summit will likely be held at Cisco Systems Belgium's offices in Diegem (just outside Brussels and accessible via local train from the city center).

= Remote Participation =

We will use the [xmpp:summit@muc.xmpp.org?join summit@muc.xmpp.org] chatroom for coordination and Google Hangouts with a YouTube broadcast for sharing audio and video. The Hangout is limited to 9 participants, so please join the Hangout only if you plan to ask questions or otherwise be actively involved in the voice and video aspects of the conversation.