Thursday, 22 February 2007
The Ubiquitous Web...
As my employment with the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven is
coming to a natural end on 1 March, and I was not sure where I would be
working in May, I did not answer the call for participation for XTech 2007. Turns out there are
at least three Jabber related talks in the schedule
that was made available just now!
Blaine Cook and Kellan Elliot-McCrea will have a talk titled
Jabber:
Social Software for Robots
promoting the use of
XMPP to let chat bots be an avatar for web applications.
Massimiliano Mirra will talk about Real-time
user-to-user web with Mozilla and XMPP
, explaining
how browser based applications can be spiced up with real-time
bidirectional structured communication by using XMPP to communicate
with the application's backend.
And finally, Jyri Engeström will talk about Jaiku
— rich presence
. I have been visiting Jaiku HQ last month and they have
a very nice application going on there. The summary does not tell, but
Jaiku uses XMPP, as Mika Raento will explain
at FOSDEM this
weekend.
All in on very exciting stuff, and there's a lot of other
interesting talks as well, so may need to consider going to Paris this
spring.
Friday, 9 February 2007
Rocking on...
Back in November 
I posted
a call for presence (haha) for the Jabber developer
room at FOSDEM 2007. But this year, with the help of 
Peter
Saint-André, the hunt for speakers has been far more
aggressive than previous editions. I must say that this has resulted in
a great, packed, line-up and I am sure that many people (currently)
from outside the will be interested in what will be presented. Loki has
put the schedule online earlier today.
To give a quick overview, on Saturday Peter will kick off with a
Jabber
101, targetted at getting developers acquainted with Jabber
technologies. Heiner Wolf follows with a presentation on Virtual
Presence, a way to meet up on webpages. Ian Paterson will try
to reach the Rich Internet Application crowd that now uses JSON, Comet
or AJAX for browser-server communications, and show how you can put
XMPP to use in this arena. The day is concluded by two
presentations on the Tigase server implentation: Artur Hefczyc will
talk
on Tigase itself and Diana Cionoiu will explain
how Yate hooks up Jingle with Tigase to build tomorrow's open telephony
networks.
For those that manage to get up bright and early on Sunday morning,
I will let visiting developers dig right into what Peter has touched
upon the day before. Using Twisted, I will explain how to actually
develop asynchronous applications that communicate using XMPP and act
as a Jabber client or server-side component. Then this session will
transform into a mini-sprint and the visitors will rattle their
keyboards to crunch out running Python code. Bring your own
laptops!
Around lunch we give
Robert McQueen and Peter a Jingle to get us up to speed on rich media
streaming, and proceed with Mickaël Rémond of ejabberd fame on OneTeam,
a Mozilla/XUL based Jabber client application. Mika Raento takes us to
the mobile world with his talk on Jaiku,
that combines rich presence and group messaging on the web and on the
mobile. Then we close the room to go Peter Saint-André's talk in the
huge Janson room on secure
communications. Be sure to check out the interview.
To allow for some extra time for answering questions after that talk,
we reopen the developers' room for a Q&A
session, and possibly a few 5 min. lightning talks, and then close up
shop.