Previous talks

Date	Time	Topic	Presenter	Contact address	Slides (PDF best)	Notes	Recording
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