Quick report of the first day of the XMPP DevCon in Bruxelles.
Today was the first of the two days XMPP DevCon at the Atlas hotel in Bruxelles, Belgium. Lots of interesting people were here and we even ran out of chairs in the room, which may be a sign of the growing interest in XMPP…
So far, we’ve talked about the abuses that a public XMPP server may face (botnets, spam, DoS…) and how we can prevent them (providing operators contact information, servers reputation, shared black lists…). XMPP on mobile devices was also a hot subject, with proposed solutions to limit CPU and traffic usage (traffic filtering based on profiles, fast reconnect, cached rosters…). Finally, we had some vast discussions on synchronizations (whiteboarding, shared editing…), with many different approaches. Now it’s beer time before day 2…
