ejabberd invites students to Google Summer of Code 2018

ejabberd has joined other Erlang projects in the BEAM Community to invite student developers to Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing them into open source software development. Through this program, students have an opportunity to receive a stipend (2400–6600 USD) and work with an open source organization on a 3 […]

ejabberd joins Google Summer of Code 2018

Each year since 2015 ejabberd has joined other Erlang projects in the BEAM Community to invite student developers to Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing them into open source software development. Through this program, students have an opportunity to work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming […]

Let’s encrypt ejabberd

Back in May we announced that 2 ejabberd projects will participate in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) through the BEAM Community. The summer has ended and now it’s time to see the results! Today we will look at the first ejabberd project, aimed at implementing ejabberd support for “Let’s Encrypt” ACME protocol. It […]

Google Summer of Code hosts ejabberd projects

As you may know, our ejabberd XMPP server is written in Erlang. The Erlang VM was originally designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. What you may not know is that ejabberd is part of the BEAM Community – a group of projects that run on the Erlang VM. Since 2013, BEAM […]

XMPP Academy #4: March 29th

Our now popular XMPP online video Q&A session is back for a third session on March 29th. The goal of the XMPP Academy is to help developers get the big picture and get XMPP architecture and design tips from 15-years-experience XMPP experts.

Elixir Programming Language Popularity is Growing

One of the nice gems (pun intended) found in The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2016, is the recent growth of Elixir popularity: Elixir: The Erlang-friendly language made a notable jump this time around. The last quarter we surveyed languages, Elixir placed at #60. As of this January, it had jumped to #54. While we […]

ejabberd and the Google Summer of Code 2016

ejabberd project and developers are involved this year again as mentors in Google Summer of Code 2016 initiative, as members of the BEAM Community. This blog post explains what it could mean for you as a student wanting to contribute to our project.

Elixir Paris #5: OTP architecture, Macros and Docker Packaging Docker

Elixir Paris Meetup #5 happened on January 12th. We have gathered a team of faithful and enthusiastic developers, passionate about programming languages. Mickaël Rémond introduced a new project that nicely demonstrates various programming approaches in Elixir. FastTS project (for Fast Time Series) is the result of the discovery of Riemann monitoring tools during Paris.ex meetup […]

Grapherl: Google Summer of Code / Metrics for ejabberd

Grapherl Google Summer of Code (GSOC) project is a project targeting the ejabberd environment to provide a metric / analytics system for ejabberd, but also other Erlang projects. Project was completed successfully by Vanshdeep Singh and is available on Github: processone/grapherl. Grapherl introduction The README.md file includes on complete tutorial on how to compile and […]

Riak and ejabberd in-depth explanation at Basho Advanced Erlang Workshop

As Basho just joined Advanced Erlang Initiative, we are joining forces to explain the implications, benefits and strength of ejabberd deployment with Riak (among other Riak talks, prepared by Basho team). During hands-on session, we will show what is possible when mixing two great Erlang products together, on December 9th, in London. You can learn […]

Elixir Paris Meetup #3 Summary

After having been inactive for some time, Elixir Meetup reboot gathering happened last Tuesday in Paris. It gathered quite a large crowd of enthusiastic developers that came to exchange and learn about Elixir programming language. The talks were a good mix of highly advanced demos and good overview for newcomers. Arnaud Wetzel and Antoine Reyt […]