Blog: FOSDEM 2025 (#1469)

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Brötzmann <[email protected]>

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+title: XMPP at FOSDEM 2025
+date: 2025-01-10
+categories: ['FOSDEM']
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+We're very excited to be back at [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2025/) in person in 2025.
+Once again, many members of the XSF and the XMPP community will be attending, and we hope to see you there!
+
+### Realtime Lounge
+
+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.org/2025/stands/) (map below).
+Come and say Hi!
+Yes, we got stickers :-)
+
+{{< figure src="/images/blog/realtime-lounge-location.png" caption="Map of the K building level 2" >}}
+
+### Talks
+
+There will be a presentation in the [Real Time Communications (RTC)](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/rtc/) track:
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+- [Jérôme Poisson (Goffi)](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/speaker/jerome_poisson_goffi/):
+    - [A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5721-a-universal-and-stable-api-to-everything-xmpp/): "Nowadays, most services provide APIs with their own formats, and sometimes multiple versions, which may change over time. But there is a universal API, with an excellent track record of stability and backward compatibility: XMPP!.
+    In this talk, I'll show how XMPP can be more than just an Instant Messaging protocol, and how it can be an extremely powerful tool to access almost anything, from third-party networks (IM, microblogging, etc.) to file sharing, automation (IoT), and more. ".
+    The presentation will take place on Saturday, February 1st 2025, on the [Real Time Communications (RTC)](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/rtc/) track, room [K.3.601](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/room/k3601/), starting at 18:25 and ending at 18:40 hs.
+
+### XMPP Summit 27
+
+Prior to FOSDEM, the XSF will also hold its [27th XMPP summit](https://xmpp.org/2024/11/xmpp-summit-27/).
+This is where community members gather to discuss protocol changes and exchange within the developer community.
+We'll be reporting live from the event and also from [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2025/).
+
+### Spread the word
+
+Please share the news on other networks:
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+- [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp/)
+- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/xmpp)
+- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf3Kq2ElJDFQhYDdjn18RuA)
+- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/xmpp-standards-foundation/)
+- [Lemmy instance (unofficial)](https://slrpnk.net/c/xmpp)
+- [Reddit (unofficial)](https://www.reddit.com/r/xmpp/)