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title: XMPP at FOSSY 2026
date: 2026-07-23
categories: ["Events"]
---

This year's edition of [FOSSY](https://2026.fossy.ca/), the fourth _Free and Open Source Software Yearly_ conference, will take place during the month of August, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th 2026 at the [University of British Columbia](https://www.ubc.ca/), Vancouver, Canada. And as always, there will be an [XMPP Track](https://2026.fossy.ca/pages/tracks/).

As announced by the organization in the official [Conference Schedule](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/), the XMPP track wil be composed of seven presentations.

Three presentations will take place during Saturday, August 8th at MCLD 3038:

| Presentation | Speaker | Time |
| :------------------ | :----------: |:------- |
| [Encrypted messaging interoperability with hybrid bridges in XMPP](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/374/)| [Marvin W.](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/609/) | 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM PDT. |
| [Beyond Chat: Delivering mini "apps" with great UI](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/369/) | [Stephen Paul Weber](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/543/) | 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM PDT. |
| ["Beautiful XMPP Testing" revisited -- How to Overcome the Mind-Body Duality by Staring at XML](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/371/) | [Phillip Davis](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/552/) | 4:30 PM to 5:15 PM PDT. |

Followed by another four presentations during Sunday, August 9th at MCLD 3038:

| Presentation | Speaker | Time |
| :------------------ | :----------: | :------ |
| [When Data Gets Heavy: Voice and Video for Large Groups](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/370/) | [Christopher Vollick](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/625/) | 10:45 AM to 11:30 AM PDT. |
| [UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/372/) | [Daniel Gultsch](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/544/) | 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM PDT. |
| [Adventures in Onboarding: Episode V - The Server Goes Down](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/375/) | [Gideon Mayhak](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/610/) | 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM PDT. |
| [Snikket: Behind the scenes of our on-demand XMPP server hosting](https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/373/) | [Matthew Wild](https://2026.fossy.ca/speaker/profile/579/) | 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM PDT. |

The [FOSSY](https://2026.fossy.ca/) organizers kindly invite you to join the event and will be pleased to see you there. Don't miss it out!
