Roundup

This is the place to draft the next "XMPP Roundup" for posting at blog.xmpp.org. All members of the XMPP community are welcome to help. Final editing is done by Nicholas Verite and Peter Saint-Andre.

Welcome everybody to the exciting news roundup of the XMPP communities worldwide.

Articles

Title Text and links detailing more about that item.

XMPP Roundup translations The previous XMPP Roundup 12 has been translated into spanish and french.

New and updated services

xeerkat <a href="http://code.google.com/p/xeerkat/">xeerkat</a> is a P2P comutping framework over XMPP:. xeerkat is not a new project, but original and never covered by the XMPP Roundup.

XMPP Framework <a href="http://drupal.org/project/xmppframework">XMPP Framework</a>, using XMPPHP, brings XMPP features to Drupal: XMPP-Drupal users correlation and relationship, XWChat web chat client (based on JSJaC), MUC, and notifications. This module is contributed by Darren Ferguson of OpenBand.

EVE Online The <a href="http://www.eveonline.com/">EVE Online</a> science-fiction <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game">MMORPG</a> (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) is using an XMPP service for in-game chats (also offering e-mail), on the <a href="http://eve-mail.net/">eve-mail.net</a> domain, with S2S (server-to-server) open for federation.

New and updated software

Legacy IM Connections via M-Link Isode <a href="http://blog.isode.com/2009/09/isode-partners-with-zion-software-to-provide-xmpp-connectivity-to-legacy-im-networks-.html<br ></a>">announced</a> that they are partnering with Zion Software to deploy the <a href="http://www.zionsoftware.com/products/xmpp-gateway/">JBuddy XMPP Gateway</a> for connectivity between Isode's M-Link server software and legacy IM networks.

XMPPKit The <a href="http://etoileos.com/etoile/">Étoilé</a> user environment for the <a href="http://www.gnustep.org/">GNUstep</a> project is building in support for sending what they call "CoreObjects" over XMPP using their emerging <a href="http://etoileos.com/news/archive/2009/09/15/1659/">XMPPKit</a>; as a result they hope to enable collaborative editing, whiteboarding, and other interactive applications.

Libjingle in Chromium Libjingle, the Google's opensource library for Jingle, <a href="http://git.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libjingle/">has been committed in Chromium</a>, the opensource base of the Chrome browser.

Spectrum <a href="http://spectrum.im/">Spectrum</a> is an XMPP gateway, released under the GPL license, using the libpurple and gloox libraries, coming from a Google Summer of Code project.

Specifications

Linked Process Linked Process, mentionned in the last XMPP Roundup, has got a new protoXEP: <a href="http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/lop.html">http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/lop.html</a>

Board and Council elections

Elections for the Board of Directors and the XMPP Council has taken place from xx to xx.

Conclusion

If you are developping, maintaining, or planning a new or updated service and/or software, and if you would like to be mentioned here, you a re encouraged to contribute it to nyco@jabber.fr. It does not necessarily need to be huge or professional, it maybe also be funny or original.