@untrusem will be sharing his experiences in contributing to @prav at #LucknowFOSS. It would serve as a great opportunity for newbies to learn how to contribute to #FreeSoftware in general (and it doesn't require a technical background).
Event details 
https://fossunited.org/c/lucknow/2025.
Thanks to @fossunited. See you there!
@untrusem will be giving a talk on his contribtions to @prav at #LucknowFOSS
"In this Lighting talk, I will share my little journey on contributing to #Prav, which is a free software. This talk will mostly be centered toward students. I will tell how I contributed to the project as a Non-Cs Student and How can they too regardless of their Background.
This Talk will also inform attendees about #XMPP and #federation."
I am using #xmpp since the time of windows xp and #pidgin. It is sad to see how the ecosystem moved. On Linux the only client available is gajim (there is no realistic way to install dino on Linux Mint). I appreciate the work people do to make those clients but.. it has so much problems. Now it constantly crashes so my xmpp communication is almost gone. Or lets say, my xmpp usage is tied to my smartphone with "conversations" as client.
Any fairly modern #XMPP clients for Android around these days? And with fairly modern, I mean Kotlin and/or Jetpack Compose. Flutter might be ok too.
Just reading through the #xmpp / #jabber core specification bc I initially wanted to write an own jabber <-> matrix bridge (the ones that exist either dont work anymore, aren't maintained or didn't work with my usecase), and I seriously consider just scraping that idea.
It's even more awefull of an protocol than HTTP; no length-prefix of messages, malformed xml, and genneraly try-and-error mentality for most of the protocol.
Another #prosody release and another smooth upgrade. This one's a biggie, the 0. versioning has been dropped !
There's some additions for #DANE and channel binding, which I should look into. Also more granular permissions, which will surely be useful for deployments bigger than mine.
Downtime was also short enough to not trigger the uptime monitors.
I see even the bookworm-backports package is updated. https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-13.0.0-released/
#xmpp #selfhosting
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DICA de sala #XMPP para troca de experiência entre diabéticos(as):
#Monocles Chat makes #XMPP experience better.
Help them by donating to their fundraiser for the awesome work they are doing https://www.startnext.com/en/monocles.
XMPP network needs you because we don't have VC funding or corporate donors.
Maybe you can do that with "XEP-0070: Verifying #HTTP Requests via #XMPP" https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0070.html
There are some blog posts about it here: https://blog.agayon.be/tag/xep-0070.html
It has a #Django demo site, too, but it seems to be broken right now.
I just donated to #Monocles as I use their #XMPP chat app on a daily basis.
Please help them by extending your support https://www.startnext.com/en/monocles.
@apps That’s awesome. I think the URIs are supposed to look like this: web+activitypub:toot.fedilab.app/@apps (Notice the absence of //)
Maybe @jenniferplusplus can chime in to clarify? Maybe also something to be more explicit about in the FEP.
I know that over a decade we had both variants in the #XMPP world and that turned out to be a mess when parsing (Correct in the XMPP world is without the //)
Oops, almost forgot to add that my Matrix and XMPP accounts are hosted in Europe as well. Only things not hosted in Europe currently is my email, calendar & contacts as I'm not aware of what options are out there outside of Proton. #Privacy #DataSovereignty #Matrix #XMPP
