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Jabber Community Announces Major Presence at O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Jabber Software Foundation to Sponsor Premier Open Source Gathering
DENVER, COLO. - APRIL 28, 2003 -- The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF), the non-profit organization that manages open application protocols built on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), today announced that it is sponsoring the 2003 Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR, July 7-11. The convention, held annually by O'Reilly & Associates, is the central gathering place for the open source community to exchange ideas for resolving integration issues, pushing technical boundaries, and maximizing the benefits of both open source and proprietary software. In that spirit, the JSF's sponsorship will be accompanied by a major presence at OSCON, including multiple lectures, seminars and public discussions, demonstrations by open source and commercial developers of Jabber technologies, and a Jabber lounge for high-bandwidth connections between Jabber enthusiasts.
Scheduled speakers include Jeremie Miller, founder of the Jabber movement; Peter Saint-Andre, executive director of the JSF; Ryan Eatmon, chair of the Jabber Council; Peter Millard of Jabber, Inc.; Harold Gottschalk, IMissary, LLC; and DJ Adams, author of Programming Jabber, the definitive guide to Jabber technologies published by O'Reilly & Associates. Complete details can be found at the JSF's dedicated OSCON page (<www.jabber.org/oscon/>).
"Jabber is about the free flow of information and the enabling effect that presence has on the ability to communicate," said Michael Bauer, Chairman of the JSF. "The Jabber community's presence at OSCON will extend its stature as a vibrant movement of open source projects and commercial organizations centered around XMPP as the emerging Internet standard for instant communications. We would especially like to thank Jabber, Inc. for its generous support, which has made it possible for the JSF to play such a major role at OSCON this year."
About the XMPP Standards Foundation
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) builds open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), and also provides information and infrastructure to the worldwide community of Jabber/XMPP developers, service providers, and end users. Widely considered the lingua franca of instant messaging, XMPP is an Internet standard for presence, real-time messaging, and streaming Extensible Markup Language (XML) data that grew out of the popular Jabber open-source technologies first released in 1999. With approval of XMPP by the IETF in 2004, the XSF continues to develop XMPP extensions that meet the needs of its many stakeholders: open-source and commercial developers (including Apple, HP, Nokia, and Sun), organizations large and small (including the U.S. defense establishment and most Wall Street investment banks), Internet and mobile service providers (including Google, NTT, Portugal Telecom, Twitter, and Facebook), and an estimated 50+ million end users worldwide.
For further information, visit <http://www.xmpp.org/> or contact XSF Executive Director Peter Saint-Andre.
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