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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 Nicolas Verite and Peter Saint-Andre.

Directions:

  • please check it has not already been covered by previous roundups by searching in the blog
  • please report at least links, or better a small introductory text

Template

Small introduction.


Articles

Title

Text explaining the new or updated item, with technical background like languages, platforms and licenses. Provide links detailing more, and give credit. Avoid links like here or read it.


New and updated services

Title

Text with links about the item.


New and updated software

Title

Text with links about the item.


Specifications

Title

Text with links about the item.


Conclusion

Small conclusion.

XMPP Roundup 13

Welcome everybody to the exciting news roundup of the XMPP communities worldwide. You are encouraged to contribute to it, by providing news items or by just spreading the word through your own blogs, microblogs, mailing-lists and forums.


Articles

XMPP Roundup translations

The previous XMPP Roundup 12 has been translated into spanish thanks to naw and french thanks to Misc and Nyco.

GAEJ + XMPP and rolling your own Agent

Romin Irani, also author of the bloodbanklocator, has written an article on how to write an XMPP agent for GAEJ (Goole App Engine Java).

Realtime Blogging with IM and WordPress.com

"Realtime Blogging with IM and WordPress.com" is a video showing how to be notified in real-time of new blog posts and comments using the XMPP service that already has been covered on the XMPP Roundup.


New and updated services

EVE Online

The EVE Online science-fiction MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) is using an XMPP service for in-game chats (also offering e-mail), on the eve-mail.net domain, with S2S (server-to-server) open for federation.

Interactive XMPP demos

The Google App Engine blog has listed a few interactive XMPP demos, like CrowdGuru,a crowdsourcing answers bot, and Multi-Chat, an IRC-like chatroom system.


New and updated software

xeerkat

xeerkat is a P2P computing framework over XMPP. xeerkat is not a new project, but original and never covered by the XMPP Roundup.

XMPP Framework

XMPP Framework, 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.

Legacy IM Connections via M-Link

Isode has announced that they are partnering with Zion Software to deploy the JBuddy XMPP Gateway for connectivity between Isode's M-Link server software and legacy IM networks.

XMPPKit

The Étoilé user environment for the GNUstep project is building in support for sending what they call "CoreObjects" over XMPP using their emerging XMPPKit; 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, has been committed in Chromium, the opensource base of the Chrome browser.

Spectrum

Spectrum is an XMPP gateway, released under the GPL license, using the libpurple and gloox libraries, coming from a Google Summer of Code project.

GWT bindings for the Strophe XMPP library

Johann Prieur has announced on his blog the availability through Bazaar of gwt-strophe, under the MIT/X/Expat License, a binding for Strophe, the XMPP library. It is now in its early stage, and need testing and bug reports.


Specifications

Linked Process

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


Board and Council elections

Elections for the Board of Directors and the XMPP Council has taken place from xx to xx. It has been decided by xx that xx.

XMPP Council:

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e

Board of Directors

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3


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.