On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:47 AM Guus der Kinderen <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a few days have passed and no objections have come up, it seems safe to > say there is general support for engaging with the DI.DAY initiative. \o/ > > I want to clarify one point about the idea that we are already "beyond this" > because some XMPP community members have reached out to DI.DAY. I do not see > that as a reason to slow down or stop further effort. If anything, it makes > it more useful to make sure our own members and projects are aware of what is > going on. > > One helpful role for the Communications Team could be to spread awareness of > the DI.DAY initiative within our own community. Not everyone follows the same > channels, and not all projects will know about DI.DAY or about the > opportunities it creates. Sharing this information simply gives people the > chance to decide for themselves if and how they want to get involved. > > It is also worth saying that the fact that some people have already reached > out does not mean others cannot or should not do the same. I do not know what > approach was used in the first outreach. Seeing interest from multiple > projects and people can actually be a good signal for the DI.DAY organizers. > > When it comes to showing solutions, I think it can sometimes be better to > lead with individual projects rather than the word XMPP itself. XMPP as a > term is not very appealing to most end users, and DI.DAY mainly targets end > users. Showing real projects and what they offer may be more attractive, and > less off putting for the organizers. Those projects can still mention XMPP if > they want, but the focus would be on their value, not just on the protocol > they use. > > I also think there is more we can do than just aiming for a listing on the > DI.DAY website. Even if some projects decide not to be listed there, they > could still benefit from the visibility around the initiative by aligning > blog posts, announcements, or other outreach with it. > > Finally, I understand there is already a group chat where people involved are > coordinating this work. Pointing interested members to that chat and inviting > them to join the ongoing effort seems like a very practical next step. > > To be clear, I am not against a simple public endorsement. I just feel there > is a lot more we could do here, and that a slightly more active approach > could massively benefit our projects and the wider ecosystem. A bit of an update. Please try to keep this information more or less to this list for now. People have reached out to DI.DAY and the website now mentions XMPP in a footnote of a footnote. People are trying to get them to clean up the wording around that mention a bit but I’m afraid that is the maximum we will get out of them. I don’t think they will publish an official XMPP recipe. However the aforementioned channel has been working on a nice XMPP recipe that we plan to push hard on social media on February 1st. This is something the comm team can help with. (Social media and maybe a blog post) I think our official communication should mention Digital Independence day as a concept and push our "recipe" but not link to or acknowledge the official website. The official website recommends a competitor (Signal) and I don’t think any of our communication should include "Hey check out Signal". cheers Daniel
