Board-Meeting-2023-02-16

• Date: Thursday, 2023-02-16
• Time: 17:00-17:30 UTC
• Video conference at https://meet.jit.si/XSF-Board-2023-02-16 (no account needed, simply visit that URL)

Agenda

Follow-up:

• Try to talk to the Matrix project to see how we can have true federation (with or without MIMI).
• Participate in MIMI.
• Making work on MLS on XMPP a priority.

(+1 on each point by Eddie)

Invitation to Podcast in H2 (~Sept)

• I think we should join with at least two of us + discuss a communication line
• Do we need confirmation by board?
• Anyone from Board beaides me can attend?

Daniel G. proposal

• Eddie: Well, if we ramp up sponsoring anyway, then still lets go for it if they subscribe. Basically +1 to not miss this chance

FOSSY conference in Portland this summer

~Edward applies for direct access to the twitter account~

Date of Next Meeting

- Edward wants to take over organization here

Minutes

board members: Matthew, Peter, Ralph regrets: Edward other folks: Daniel Gultsch

(Ralph summarizes) follow up on FOSDEM conversations (e.g., with Stuart) opportunity to play a role on interoperability EU legislation on the way we haven't been at the table to participate in these discussions upcoming interoperability workshop in Brussels https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/dma/dma-workshops/interoperability-workshop_en https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-02/20230227_dma_interoperability_workshop_agenda.pdf Ralph will attend (only one representative per organization) it should be relatively easy for us to raise funds to work on this if we formulate a good plan might be a challenge if that money flows through the XSF best could be if XSF functions as a fiscal host

Matthew: we need to figure out what we want to achieve this first workshop could be a good way to test the waters agree that we don't want to become a large organization with much money the fiscal hosting could be a good framework

Peter: yes, putting together a plan is the first step let's figure out the opportunities and what resources are needed also the timeframe

Ralph: this workshop at the end of February seems like a good place to start supposedly EU expects to enforcing interoperability by 2025

topic: IETF MIMI WG definitely a reaction to the DMA but framed in a more neutral manner the gatekeepers might never adopt it and they're not involved in the WG it's not necessarily the case that MIMI will 100% succeed or 100% fail three layers: - transport - encryption - content a document about XMPP as transport layer could help in the MIMI effort one challenge is e2e encryption if we have an MLS profile in XMPP, would that solve the problem? not really, because there are MLS parameters and they differ across systems XMPP MLS profile would help content layer is all being designed from scratch what is the delta between what we have and what the requirements are?

topic: why XMPP is a protocol of choice we can do a better job of this perhaps an initiative

topic: workshop panel about interoperability and security representatives from Cisco, META, Mozilla, etc. AI: Peter to reach out to likely attendees

topic: a few thoughts on plans transport (and perhaps encryption and content) draft for MIMI MLS profile for XMPP (there's already activity here by people Matthew mentions) roadmap for EU interop

topic: engagement with XMPP vendors XSF should be more active here