** In reply to: Scaling accessibility beyond compliance at VA.gov through community and culture - Ad Hoc **
In reply to: Scaling accessibility beyond compliance at VA.gov through community and culture - Ad Hoc
If“accessibility as compliance” is a staircase where outcomes are restricted to the normative limitations of the law, Accessibility Beyond Compliance is an exponential curve. It isn’t limited to fulfilling legal constraints, and we can use it to explore, understand, and b … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: JMP is 7 years old — thanks to our awesome community!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · January 2024 Edition
The new year has kicked off, and developers are hard at work. We hope all our open source community members had a lovely holiday break and, we’re looking forward to seeing what you ship this year. 2024 is already off to a great start with open source projects releasing major updates. There’s everything here from […]
The post Release Radar · January 2024 Edition appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
DFRobot Coin-Sized ESP32-C6 Board with RISC-V Core, Priced at $4.90
The Beetle ESP32-C6 is a compact and versatile IoT development board by DFRobot, designed for Arduino enthusiasts and developers looking to explore low-power IoT solutions. This tiny gizmo offers up to 16x I/Os and an array of communication protocols including Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, Zigbee 3.0, and Thread 1.3. This device utilizes the same Espressif […] ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Creating the XMPP Network Graph
At the risk of sounding like an unhinged fanboy: XMPP is pretty awesome!
I’ve been involved in one way or another with XMPP, the network protocol that is an open standard for messaging and presence, for the last two decades. Much of that revolves around development of Openfire, our XMPP-based real-time communications server.
TL;DR:
- I built a thing:[https://xmppnetwork.goodbytes.i … ⌘ Read more
GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source
GitHub Actions continues its industry-leading support for the OSS community by doubling the Windows/Linux machine size to 4-vCPU runners at no cost for public repositories.
The post GitHub-hosted runners: Double the power for open source appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.0 Released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 4.8.0 of Openfire, its cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol!
This is the first major release of Openfire in about two years, and that shows: 199 tickets have been closed against this release! As a fun fact: the oldest of these issues was raised in 2015, the youngest: three days ago. Some of the highlights in this relea … ⌘ Read more
‘I’m trying to push mothering ewes through’: Flood plain farmers reflect on emotional and financial impact of floods
A year on from flooding that devastated communities along the River Murray, farmers like Meiqing Lin and Alexandra Westlake are still feeling the impact. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal 2023 “Year in Review”
The biggest articles. The best community of nerds. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Happy Birthday, Jabber!
Today marks the 25th birthday of Jeremie Miller’s announcement of “a new project to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging” on Slashdot.
How have things progressed since then!
By far most of the projects that we maintain here in the IgniteRealtime.org community make direct use of the XMPP protocol, which is the name used for t … ⌘ Read more
8 Top Docker Tips & Tricks for 2024
Whether you’re a Docker expert or new to the Docker community, you may be wondering about the best ways to optimize or get started quicker on Docker. Docker Captain Vladimir Mikhalev rounds up top Docker tips to help you supercharge developer productivity in 2024. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at FOSDEM 2024
We’re very excited to be back at FOSDEM in person in 2024.
Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there!
As usual, we will host the Realtime Lounge, where you can come and meet community members, project developers, see demos and ask us questions.
We’ll be in our traditional location - find us on the K building 2nd floor, [beside the elevator](https://fosdem.o … ⌘ Read more
JMP: SMS Censorship
Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are … ⌘ Read more
JMP: SMS Censorship
Since almost the very beginning of JMP there have been occasional SMS and MMS delivery failures with an error message like “Rejected for SPAM”. By itself this is not too surprising, since every communications system has a SPAM problem and every SPAM blocking technique has some false positives. Over the past few years, however, the incidence of this error has gone up and up. But whenever we investigate, we find no SPAM being sent, just regular humans having regular conversations. So what is happening here? Are … ⌘ Read more
Happy 2024, twtxt community!
Ignite Realtime Blog: Dan is voted in the XSF’s Council!
Our very own @danc was voted into the XMPP Standards Foundation Council not to long ago!
The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messagin … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;
**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;
**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;
**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Instant Messaging: Protocols are “Commons”, Let’s Take Them Seriously
TLDR;
**Thirty years after the advent of the first instant messaging services, we still haven’t reached the stage where instant messaging platforms can freely communicate with each other, as is the case with email. In 1999, the Jabber/XMPP protocol was created and standardized for this purpose by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Since then, proprietary messaging services ha … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · End of 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people enjoyed turkey over thanksgiving and expressed gratitude for those around them. In this edition, we’d like to thank the open source community for all the awesome projects shipped over the past […]
The post Release Radar · End of 2023 Edition appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https://gi … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · Thanksgiving 2023 Edition
Hacktoberfest has wrapped up, GitHub Universe has come to a close, and our community has been super hard at work. All the while people have been enjoying turkey and expressing gratitude for those around them. In this edition, we’re thankful to the open source community and all the awesome projects shipped over the past two […]
The post Release Radar · Thanksgiving 2023 Edition appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](h … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2023 and will be the last publication for 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interes … ⌘ Read more
Remote community strives to improve health by growing their own fruit and veg in APY Lands
A Central Australian Aboriginal community hopes to improve the health of residents and increase food security by re-establishing a once plentiful orchard that has fallen into disrepair. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.2 released!
Earlier today, we have have performed a maintenance release for the REST API plugin for Openfire. In this release, version 1.10.2, we have made a warning in documentation more visible. This is aimed at reducing confusion around installation with Openfire 4.7.5.
Also in this release a translation into Ukrainian, gracefully provided by community member Yurii Savchuk (svais) and his son Vladislav Savchuk (Bruhmozavr)!
Th … ⌘ Read more
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards recognizes and celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community, honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for their impactful work, innovation, thought leadership, and creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
The post Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉 appeared first on [The … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read m … ⌘ Read more
JMP: CertWatch
As you may have already seen, on October 21st, it was reported that a long-running, successful MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) attack against jabber.ru had been detected. The nature of this attack was not specific to the XMPP protocol in any way, but it was of special interest to us as members of the XMPP community. This kind of attack relies on being able to present a TLS certificate which anyone trying to connect will accept as valid. In this case, it was done b … ⌘ Read more
Docker State of Application Development Survey 2023: Share Your Thoughts on Development
Participate in the Docker State of Application Development Survey 2023 to help us better understand and serve the developer community. We want to know where developers are focused, what they’re working on, and what is most important to them. Your participation and input will help us build the best products and experiences for you. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM Health-Check
Optimise Your Current Deployment with a MongooseIM Health CheckMongooseIM plays a key role in today’s evolving digital landscape. For businesses, it ensures seamless communication within your organisation or application. However, like any other system, it requires regular check-ups to maintain peak performance.
Enter the MongooseIM Health Check from our team at Erlang Solutions – your ticket to a more efficient messaging environment.
**What is a Mo … ⌘ Read moreThe XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Type-checking Erlang and Elixir
The BEAM community couldn’t be more varied when it comes to opinions about static type systems. For some they’re the most desired feature of other functional languages which we miss. Others shun them and choose our ecosystem exactly because, and not despite the fact that it doesn’t force the perceived overhead of types. Some others still worry whether static types could be successfully applied on the Erlang virtual machine at all.
Over the years, … ⌘ Read more
How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools
Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.
The post [How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools](https://github.blog/2023-10-04-how-to-commu … ⌘ Read more
Let’s DockerCon!
DockerCon 2023 will be hybrid — both live (in Los Angeles, California) and virtual. Our desire is to once again experience the live magic of the hallway track, the serendipitous developer-to-developer sharing of tips and tricks, and the celebration of our community’s accomplishments … all while looking forward together toward a really exciting future. And for members of our community who can’t attend in person, we hope you’ll join us virtually! ⌘ Read more
Stream from the #Matrix Community Summit:
https://www.youtube.com/live/wVl-jw_O_MQ
Schedule:
https://summit2023.matrixmeetup.de/conference/schedule ⌘ Read more
Rather than fundraiser choccies some schools rely on mango sales, but this year’s small harvest could hamper efforts
The Mango Fundraiser initiative from North Queensland sends mangoes straight from the farm to schools and community organisations that need an extra boost of financial support. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s earliest garlic harvest has barely finished, but Joe is sowing seeds for the next generation
An Indigenous community harvesting Australia’s earliest commercial garlic crop is hoping to pass on farming skills to improve the lives of future generations. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more … ⌘ Read more
I was introducing someone I know to #Mastodon a few years back, starting with:
“So let’s find a server that suits your niche interests. What are you looking for?”
…thinking that I knew all the fedi communities pretty well.
They responded cheekily “Is there a european-foreign-policy server?”
Of course I came up short, and they ended up making an account on a generalist server.
But fedi has grown a lot since!
So happy that eupolicy.social, respublicae.eu and social.netwo … ⌘ Read more
AI-powered impact: GitHub Social Impact’s year ahead
How GitHub Social Impact is working with nonprofit organizations, employees, and more to create positive, lasting change in global communities.
The post AI-powered impact: GitHub Social Impact’s year ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Nine years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program! We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community in 2022!
The post Nine years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June & July 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter te … ⌘ Read more
‘We just take the good with the bad’: Farmers and rural communities optimistic as dry El Niño weather looms
Queensland farmer “Sno” Harm has seen many El Niño weather patterns in his 50 years of growing cotton. He says he “can’t really prepare” for the next drought and remains hopeful for rain. ⌘ Read more
Build and Deploy a LangChain-Powered Chat App with Docker and Streamlit
We are happy to have another great AI/ML story to share from our community. In this blog post, MA Raza, Ph.D., provides a guide to building and deploying a LangChain-powered chat app with Docker and Streamlit. This article reinforces the value that Docker brings to AI/ML projects — the speed and consistency of deployment, the […] ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Jabber Browsing Openfire Plugin 1.0.1 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Jabber Browsing plugin for Openfire.
This is a plugin for the Openfire Real-time Communications server. It provides an implementation for service discovery using the jabber:iq:browse namespace, as specified in XEP-0011: Jabber Browsing. Note that this feature is considered obsolete! The plug … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Agent Information plugin for Openfire release 1.0.1
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Agent Information plugin for Openfire.
This plugin implements the XEP-0094 ‘Agent Information’ specification for service discovery using the jabber:iq:agents namespace. Note that this feature is considered obsolete! The plugin should only be used by people that seek backwards compatibility with very old and very specific IM … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire release 1.1.1
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire.
This plugin allows you to automate TLS certificate management tasks. This is particularly helpful when your certificates are short-lived, like the ones issued by Let’s Encrypt.
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the [changelog] … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: JmxWeb plugin for Openfire 0.9.1 release
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the JmxWeb plugin for Openfire.
This plugin provides a web based platform for managing and monitoring Openfire via JMX
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and fixes one bug. More details are available in the changelog.
Your instance of Openf … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.2 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Push Notification plugin for Openfire.
This plugin enables clients to register for push notifications.
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and a configuration page. More details are available in the changelog
Yo … ⌘ Read more