**Chat of the Future Initiative - Spring Check-in**
In the coming session the focus will be on progress behind the
activities that participants have been agreeing towards since we kicked off.
Agenda:
* Welcome & Check-in
* Update & Discussion on unified promotion banners
* Update & Discussion on possible online community online event
The check-in sessions are more a discussion than a working setting.
Time: Tue, 17th Mar, 19:00 - 19:30 (CET)
Where: Remote, session changed to
https://talk.teamjoin.de/room/8a1e5d06-4d31-4283-a73a-2c7a0d3755d3?invite=76e96732-ec54-480c-877b-9ffd8a987aa1
Speak to you,
Eddie
On 05/01/2026 22:58, E.M. wrote:
Dear all,
the XSF Communication Team is pleased to announce a new initiative to
help evolving the XMPP ecosystem in a broader and aligned perspective.
This should cover discussions, development but also extended public
communication and presence. As this is being setup in an iterative way
its participants will be able to form and steer the collaborations
direction over time.
You can read the full blog post here:
https://xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-future-initiative/
After a number of questions let me elaborate a bit more.
So, when you join the session(s) we will have a interactive
collaboration board present where we will conduct different exercises.
We start with basically exposure and a discussion of the networks status
quo is as everyone sees it from their corner. If you have ideas of what
you would like to change, you can just propose those.
Ideas could be for example that members from the XMPP community are
interest in an organised (regular?) interoperability meeting on certain
XEPs. Others think of more engagement along encryption or building a
better landing page for developers. In the end, all those great ideas
and constructive feedback can be brought to the first session, but also
at a later point. Out of this, the round will form a collaborative
direction that anyone interested can join, commit and contribute to.
There are more and other directing and hopefully fun exercises of this
nature and we will collect, review and discuss ideas that could be worth
moving on within a couple of months. Ideas, to be shaped in smaller
activities, with no long time frames but effective outcomes that the
ecosystem benefits at user or (new) developers level.
We hope this is a motivating opportunity for the XMPP network and help
us to step ahead all together. We also believe that such a collaboration
can enable the network to evolve and gain new momentum and result in
strong benefits for all actors.
Feel free to comeback with your thoughts already.
Best regards from the Communication Team,
Eddie
