Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized

Track: Introduction to Free Software & Debian

Type: Short talk (20 minutes)

Room: Grand amphi

Time: Jul 14 (Mon): 17:30

Duration: 0:20

Getting away from centralized services is now more important than ever; thanks to prosody or ejabberd and a number of clients for all tastes, it is easy to community-host your own federated XMPP server and chat away in a secure and federated way while only using software that is packaged for Debian. And if you are a Debian Developer, there is also already a community doing the hosting for you.

In this talk I’ll give an overview of what XMPP is, why it is a suitable solution to the IM needs of today, and how it’s better than some alternatives, and then provide a few pointers on what to do to join it, either by self/community hosting themselves or by joining an existing server, including a short update on Debian’s own instance.

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