Over the past few years[^1] there has been a renewed interest in 'alternative' on-line services such as social media and chat. These are services that promise to provide different experiences and models to the ones we are used to seemingly for free from corporations like Google, Facebook and Apple.
Over the past few years there has been a renewed interest in 'alternative' on-line services such as social media and chat[^1]. These are services that promise to provide different experiences and models to the ones we are used to seemingly for free from corporations like Google, Facebook and Apple.
Some of these alternatives are that in name only. These alternatives promise to be something else from the start, but often end up being more of the same since they use similar or identical business models as the platform they pretend to be an alternative to. In essence a different brand serving the same product.
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Wtt�F will host a series of two-day gatherings that invite developers of these software projects and people active in arts and design. After an evening of presentation and discussion on the first day, the second day will be dedicated to a hands-on worksession.
For these worksessions the invited developers will introduce outline a few issues in the context of language, design and ux that participantes are invited to address. Concrete *contributions* are explored as a way to introduce these critical software practices in a tangible way.
For these worksessions the invited developers will introduce and outline a few issues in the context of language, design and ux that participantes are invited to address. Concrete *contributions* are explored as a way to introduce these critical software practices in a tangible way. The form of these contributions can be
Title: 'The Ecosystem is Moving' a gathering with Daniel Gultsch
Title: 'The Ecosystem is Moving' a gathering with Daniel Gultsch
Category: a meeting with a developer
slug: conversations-gultsch
tags: instant messaging, conversations, xmpp
featured_image: images/fi_im.jpg
On the 1st and 2nd of june [*varia*](https://varia.zone) will host 'The Ecosystem Is Moving', a lecture by and worksesion with Daniel Gultsch about federated instant messaging, open source software and the sustainability of open systems.
On the 1st and 2nd of June [*varia*](https://varia.zone) will host 'The Ecosystem Is Moving', a lecture by and worksession with Daniel Gultsch about federated instant messaging, open source software and the sustainability of open systems.
* June 1st, 19.00 - 22.00 - introduction to XMPP and lecture by Daniel Gultsch
* June 2nd, 10.00 - 18.00 - hands on worksession on design and federated chat systems. Please register for the worksession via `info * varia.zone`
Daniel Gultsch is the developer behind [Conversations](https://conversations.im), an open source instant messaging application for Android. In 2014 he decided to work full time on Conversations and try to <!-- PELICAN_END_SUMMARY --> make a living from it. Rather than starting from scratch with Conversations, he built it as a client for the existing federated messaging protocol XMPP.
Daniel Gultsch is the developer behind [Conversations](https://conversations.im), an open source instant messaging application for Android. In 2014, he decided to work full time on Conversations and try to <!-- PELICAN_END_SUMMARY --> make a living from it. Rather than starting from scratch with Conversations, he built it as a client for the existing federated messaging protocol XMPP.
Since an XMPP messenger can, in a way, only be as good as the entire ecosystem, Daniels work on Conversations also meant work on expanding and improving that larger XMPP ecosystem. This work includes helping to draft and implement protocol standards, such as OMEMO, a modern and user-friendly end-to-end encryption based on Signal's protocol. He also contributed code to other XMPP servers and clients in the ecosystem to bring them up to speed with modern uses. Additionally, [through his critical essays](https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html) he is a vocal defender of XMPP and open standards in general.
*Welcome to the � Federation* is a project by [Roel Roscam Abbing](http://roelof.info/), in collaboration with [Manetta Berends](http://manettaberends.nl).
[*Welcome to the � Federation*](/welcome-to-the-federation.html) is a project by [Roel Roscam Abbing](http://roelof.info/), in collaboration with [Manetta Berends](http://manettaberends.nl).
This project is made possible with the support of [Varia](https://varia.zone), [CBK Rotterdam](https://www.cbkrotterdam.nl/).
This project is made possible with the support of [Varia](https://varia.zone) and [CBK Rotterdam](https://www.cbkrotterdam.nl/).
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