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title: XSF Membership Application Period for Q4 is open
date: 2010-11-08
author: bear
categories: ["XSF Organisational"]
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The XMPP Standards Foundation is currently accepting applications for new members.

Why apply?

- Help the XSF with technical reviews and communication efforts  
- Help elect the XMPP Council, or run for the Council in the future (council candidates must be XSF members)   
- Help the XSF stay true to its mission of building an open, secure, feature-rich, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet

Application instructions are available here: [http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership\_Applications\_November\_2010](http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_November_2010)

The Q4 application period ends on 24 November 2010 at 23:59h UTC. So apply today!
