Conferences/Summit 13

XMPP Summit 13

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will hold its 13th XMPP Summit on Thursday, January 31 and Friday, February 1 in Brussels, Belgium. This is the Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM 2013.

The Summit will be held at Cisco Systems Belgium's offices in Diegem (just outside Brussels and accessible via local train from the city center).

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.

For activities on Saturday and Sunday, see the FOSDEM 2013 page.

General Discussion Topics

The XMPP Summit consists of intensive discussions among core XMPP developers to solve pressing problems in the XMPP protocol stack and general community. Although all are welcome, the XMPP Summit is not intended for people who are just interested in learning about XMPP (see the Saturday schedule at FOSDEM), but instead for active technical contributors in the XMPP community.

Likely technical topics include:

• XMPP and the Web (including WebRTC)
• XMPP and JSON (insert witty frankenstein comment here)
• Message Archive Management (XEP-0313)
• Message carbons (XEP-0280)
• Distributed chatrooms
• Internationalization (RFC6122bis)

If you have ideas for technical topics, please post them to the summit@xmpp.org discussion list.

Informal Talks

The following people have volunteered to give talks and tutorials at various times (yet to be scheduled):

Lightning talks:

• 10 mins intro to XMPP and HTTP for media sharing
• Visualized XMPP tools -- Kosuke Watanabe, Akari Harada, Nobuo Ogashiwa

Longer form:

• Massive service discovery for webinos and M2M -- Victor Klos and Eelco Cramer
• XMPP as Middleware? -- Matthew Wild
• Challenges in XMPP and SIP interoperability -- Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
• Twilix and JSLiX: ORM based XMPP libraries for python and javascript to make XMPP programming easier. -- Sergey Dobrov
• XMPP with JSON -- Lance Stout

More information on the interop testing to be conducted can be found here: Interop summit11.

Participants

The following people will participate:

• Kim Alvefur
• John Atherton (Friday only)
• Paul Aurich
• Abmar Barros
• Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
• Nathan Fritz (remote, video presence)
• Adrian Georgescu
• Philipp Hancke
• Akari Harada
• Jonny Heavey
• Joe Hildebrand
• Waqas Hussain (we hope!)
• Emil Ivov
• Florian Jensen
• Thomas Jost
• Jan Kaluza
• Brian Kelly
• Severin Kistner
• Steffen Larsen
• Vincent Lucas
• Tobias Markmann (Friday only)
• Ralph Meijer
• Edwin Mons
• Nobuo Ogashiwa
• Mickaël Rémond
• Peter Saint-Andre
• Jonathan Schleifer
• Kevin Smith
• Yana Stamcheva
• Lance Stout
• Stefan Strigler
• bear (Mike Taylor)
• Simon Tennant
• Winfried Tilanus
• Mili Verma
• Ashley Ward
• Kosuke Watanabe
• Lloyd Watkin
• Matthew Wild
• Florian Zeitz

Dinner

There will be an official XSF Dinner on Thursday the 31st of January.

A shuttle bus will be provided from the official Hotel to the Restaurant and back.

The following individuals and organizations have volunteered to help sponsor the cost of the dinner.

• Peter Saint-Andre (€100)

If you would like to help sponsor the dinner, please contact Florian Jensen or Peter Saint-Andre, or post to the summit@xmpp.org list.

GPG key signing

During the summit there will be the possibility to sign each others GPG keys. If you want to have your keys signed, please take along:

• Key printouts with the following:
  • your first name and last name
  • the e-mail adresses and other id's you would like to have signed
  • the key-id and encryption method (eg: 4096R/1A2B3C4D)
  • key fingerprint (visible with: gpg -v --fingerprint 1A2B3C4D)
• Some official ID with photo (e.g. Passport or drivers license)

Prepared like this, it should not take more then 15 minutes to cross-sign the keys of everybody who is interested. More info can be found at: Debian Wiki on Keysigning. Some handy scripts for making mass-signing more easy can be found in the Signing party Debian package.

Here are the people who plan to participate:

• Peter Saint-Andre (1024D/0DB0FEFC, E559 E98A 9BC9 ED0F 6021 FDEA 34BF 24E4 0DB0 FEFC)
• Winfried Tilanus (4096R/62D66B3D)

Logistics

Summit planning meeting minutes 2013-01-03 2130 UTC

Hotel

Our Hotel is the ALoft Brussels.

The rates we have:

Nights 30 & 31 January 2013

160 € per single room per night, including breakfast and taxes 170 € per double room per night, including breakfast and taxes

Nights 01 & 02 February 2013

75 € per single room per night, including breakfast and taxes 85 € per double room per night, including breakfast and taxes

Booking

All information about the Hotel and the booking form can be found here: https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/XMPP2013

Please do subscribe to the summit@xmpp.org discussion list to be notified about Summit details.

Transportation

• Cisco office in Diegem: You can get the train from Schuman Station (opposite the Hotel) which takes about 30 minutes. Trains run every 30 minutes. You can find train schedules and route planner on NMBS.be. You can find a sample route here. Basically, take the Metro to central station and then follow the instructions from last year.

• FOSDEM: Take the Metro from Schuman to Montgomery. From there take the Tram 25 towards Boondael Gare. Get off at the stop ULB.