Ravi
Ravi Dwivedi helps with LibreOffice marketing in India by having stalls at various free software conferences. He also runs LibreOffice mirrors in India. He is also a board of trustee of The Document Foundation (TDF). He is the CEO of the Prav Cooperative, which runs the Prav messaging app. Furthermore, he has worked in the project's outreach, website and server. He writes at ravidwivedi.in and toots on Mastodon with handle @ravi@toot.io.
Session
The LibreOffice project has been a champion of advocating open formats and rejecting proprietary ones for documents, in addition to its commitment to free software ideals. However, like in many communities, most of the communication channels of the LibreOffice project are hosted on Telegram, which is not based on an open protocol.
In this talk, I explore the possibility of switching to XMPP, a decentralised messaging system with considerable adoption in Free Software communities. XMPP is an open standard based on XML, which incidentally results in significant synergy with LibreOffice's own goals!
I will cover how the project can switch to XMPP, whether it is something TDF would like to self-host or use existing community run services, and present some practical advice.