@prav is looking for some sponsors to renew SMS subscription with Twilio. We send SMS OTP to verify users before creating an account. We raised some funds for specific projects like building Prav for iOS and adding custom username support, but no funds towards running costs yet (hosting charges are already sponsored). So consider donating at https://prav.app/donate/

#prav #xmpp #FreeSoftware

Work on @prav iOS app will start next week.

Hoping to have one more easy on boarding option for #iOS users as well (#Quicksy was released for iOS recently).

We have raised funds for this work from the community, thanks to everyone who contributed!

Details here https://opencollective.com/prav-ios/updates/starting-work-on-prav-for-ios

Prav will offer an option not in Quicksy - to choose a username to hide your phone number to other group members. This is still in progress, see https://opencollective.com/custom-username

#prav #ios #xmpp

This is one of the high priority issues identified by @prav community and we hope to focus on this once we finish https://prav.app/donate/custom-username/

Once the XEP gets validated by XMPP community, we plan to run another crowd funding campaign to implement this (we submitted a proposal to NLNet for this, but was not accepted).

#Prav #XMPP #FreeSoftware

Drafting a method for verifying new devices for #XMPP end to end encrypted chats.

This is a very early draft/brain dump, once a few people validates, it can be submitted to official review process.

#Matrix already implements cross signing and this makes encryption experience very smooth, but in XMPP using multiple devices in encrypted rooms is really a mess.

XMPP already have a concept of master key per identity defined in OpenPGP for XMPP. We can combine these two.

https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/V6nDcrMy6b+2+cIIFXZUF5pO/

@strypey @xmppbrasil @snikket_im If you like to follow the progress of Prav, we are on XMPP as well https://join.jabber.network/#prav@chat.disroot.org?join (did not want to host it directly on prav.app to be able to talk in case problems with the service itself).

With 7 people contributing, we have raised 11,863/23,000 rupees (crossing 50% mark) for our https://prav.app/donate/custom-username/ crowd funding campaign!

Thanks to everyone who contributed already and if you haven't contributed, please consider contributing.

We want to demonstrate, even people who don't have any programming skills can meaningfully adapt a Free Software to fit their needs, if they come together, pool money and hire a programmer.

#xmpp #prav #FreeSoftware

@xmppbrasil @strypey @snikket_im Monocles Chat has some nice additions on top of conversations.

@kariboka
Thanks for confirming! So that is plus for staying with Twilio.

@strypey @snikket_im Delta Chat is relatively new and I don't use it. Basically I'm already familiar with #XMPP, then #Quicksy already provides the onboarding and contact discovery familiar to most people through WhatsApp (SMS OTP sign up and contact discovery via phone book).

Unlike most other software, choice of messaging app is not just personal (the social cost of not using WhatsApp is too high and not easy for most people). So we need a different strategy and well coordinated campaign.

@kariboka could you try again now? We switched from Vonage to Twilio today (we use both providers). Do you know any SMS providers that work in Brazil?

@strypey Fedi developers will need to go to events like this and talk to people outside usual circles. For now I'm focusing on #XMPP as I think replacing #WhatsApp is more important right now.

#debutsav #kochi group photo. We had a session to introduce #FreeSoftware and #Debian Then people with a debian based system joined for packaging workshop. Others went for documentation sprint.

I showed updating node-del package from 7.0.0 to 7.1.0 and many people followed me and built node-del 7.1.0 in their own machines. Some started working on updating other nodejs / ruby packages to newer minor / patch releases. Hopefully some of them will stick around and contribute.