Previous talks

Date	Time	Topic	Presenter	Contact address	Slides (PDF best)	Notes	Recording
12/14/2021	17:00 UTC	Fighting Windows and XMPP - Building a modern Windows XMPP Client	Fabian Sauter	TBA	TBA	The developer of the UWPX Windows client will present insight in his experience with the UWP platform and implementation of the XMPP protocol.	TBA
11/15/2021	12:00 UTC	Virtual Co-working Hour	Open session			This week join us to show off and hack on your favorite projects, or just hang out.
10/5/2021	16:00 UTC	Fiscal Hosting and Open Collective	Sam Whited	sam@samwhited.com		We'll show off the new Open Collective profile and discuss fiscal hosting. A mix of a quick overview of the platform and a discussion about how it can be useful to your project	https://youtu.be/lprIwxyPY2E
8/3/2021	16:00 UTC	Preview of Communiqué	Sam Whited	sam@samwhited.com	https://git.sr.ht/~samwhited/communique-tui/	Communiqué is a new TUI client similar to McAbber. This talk will show a preview of the UID and we'll discuss the design philosophy, and maybe show some fun features and easter eggs.
7/27/2021	16:00 UTC	Building a Chat Bot on Ad Hoc Commands	Christopher Vollick	0@psycoti.ca		We in the soprani.ca project wanted to use ad-hoc commands to allow users to configure their accounts, but not all clients support them. Implementing a chat bot helped bridge that gap.	https://youtu.be/e1-hpsQ9OZE
6/22/2021	16:00 UTC	XEP Modernization Roundtable	Open discussion		XEPs: https://pad.disroot.org/p/XSF_Modernization_Working_Group_Recommendations	We'll put together a list of XEPs that can be deprecated, obsoleted, or that need a rewrite. Everyone can bring a list and make suggestions, then we'll go through them and explain each one and try to come to consensus / designate authors if a new XEP is necessary!	XEPs: https://pad.disroot.org/p/XSF_Modernization_Working_Group_Recommendations
6/1/2021	16:00 UTC	Demo: ad-hoc commands and forms with Mellium	Sam Whited			We'll demo using ad-hoc commands in Mellium to draw forms. Also we'll discuss some problems with the spec and how they could be resolved.	https://youtu.be/C2oyAfJeqno
5/4/2021	17:00 UTC	Gajim 1.4 Preview	Philipp Hörist			Preview of the changes we plan for 1.4. Gajim gets a big GUI overhaul.	https://youtu.be/SwZaZY2hYzA
4/27/2021	16:00 UTC	Intro to JMAP	Daniel Gultsch		https://gultsch.de/files/intro.pdf		https://youtu.be/VnRvDyyhEyQ
4/20/2021	16:00 UTC	Feedback request: Intro to XMPP	Sam Whited		https://blog.samwhited.com/xmpp-intro-slides.pdf	This will be the technical version of the presentation. If you already know it all, please provide feedback and invite any XMPP newbies you want to get involved!	https://youtu.be/92egt5-UDwo
4/13/2021	16:00 UTC	Round Table: Towards XMPP 2.0	Open discussion		Notes: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_Office_Hours/2021-04-13-Notes	A round table discussion about features, changes, and fixes in a hypothetical future "XMPP 2.0"	Notes: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_Office_Hours/2021-04-13-Notes
4/6/2021	16:00 UTC	Cryptographic Identity: Conquering the Fingerprint Chaos	Paul Schaub (vanitasvitae)		https://cloud.jabberhead.tk/s/YQnPrXZAHnGezt7	An idea on how to tackle the complexity problem of fingerprint verification in end-to-end encrypted multi device messaging	https://youtu.be/oc5844dyrsc
3/31/2021	17:00 UTC	Soprani.ca: bridging us all together	Stephen Paul Weber (singpolyma)		https://singpolyma.net/presentations/2021/090/soprani.ca/	An overview of the goals and current state of the Soprani.ca (including Cheogram and JMP.chat) projects	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZtxZXs7Ja8
3/26/2021	17:00 UTC	Designing Message Styling	Sam Whited		https://blog.samwhited.com/designing-message-styling.pdf	An overview of the design and implementation of the Message Styling API in Mellium	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zet2r-Tw-k4