In an annual vote, not one, not two, but three Ignite Realtime community members have been selected into leadership positions of the XMPP Standards Foundation! 
The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Most of the projects that we’re maintaining in the Ignite Realtime community have a strong dependency on XMPP.
The XSF Board of Directors, in which both @Flow and @dwd are elected, oversees the business affairs of the organisation. They are now in a position to make key decisions on the direction of XMPP technology and standards development, manage resources and partnerships to further the growth of the XMPP ecosystem and promote XMPP in the larger open-source and communications community, advocating for its adoption and use in various applications.
The XMPP Council, in which @danc has been reelected, is the technical steering group that approves XMPP Extension Protocols. The Council is responsible for standards development and process management. With that, Dan is now on the forefront of new developments within the XMPP community!
Congrats to you all, Dan, Dave and Florian!
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Dan, Flow Guus and others i may have missed for achieving this…