Modern XMPP project discussion - 2025-04-11

Hey, there used to be a MUC where you could ask about other MUCs or promote your own. Does anyone have the address for that room?

xmpp:room-announcement@chat.disroot.org?join

Has anyone here got write access to xmpp.org and could add info on how to donate? Can't find any. Pretty sure there'd be much more funding for stuff if people knew how they could give some. :D

You are better off donating to a project directly ✏

The xsf doesn't do much with the money they have (intentionally afaik)

But they have an OpenCollective page with projects where they are the fiscal host

Wasn't open collective going down btw?

> Wasn't open collective going down btw? No? ↺

No, just some semi-independant part of it... complicated story

Kris: ah ok

> The xsf doesn't do much with the money they have (intentionally afaik) Actually the XSF spends a lot of money every year, mostly on summits, sprints, etc. and occasionally helping people travel to events.

Yeah, not much on projects themselves

I mean, I guess there's "a lot" and "a lot", it's no Python or Matrix foundation

something something neutrality

No, it doesn't spend on projects

I'm not sure how it would decide whether to give money to poezio or profanity, Movim or Libervia.

If more resources were available, we could maybe do something like GSoC on a smaller scale, but it would be a very small scale.

Generally I think I concluded that if people want to support projects, they would be better doing so directly. The XSF acting as a fiscal host makes it easier for the projects to receive donations.

I think it can be both, but I'm happy not to do this here :)

> Generally I think I concluded that if people want to support projects, they would be better doing so directly. The XSF acting as a fiscal host makes it easier for the projects to receive donations. 👍 ↺