I've proposed a specification for SFU hosting (check https://bloggeek.me/webrtcglossary/sfu/ if you don't know what's a SFU), and wrote a component based on the excellent Galène SFU, as well as client implementation (in Libervia) as part of a NLNet/NGI grant (https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia-AV/).

XMPP council (disclaimer: I'm a council member for the current term) asked me to some modifications and to re-propose, which I'm about to do. I couldn't find the time so far (cause I'm working on ton on stuffs), but will go back to it very soon.

To sum-up: this is very much worked on.

Also note that Libervia is using a backend/frontends architecture with a D-Bus API, you can use it to make your own frontend with any language you like.

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For UI there is https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD for Material design on top of Kivy.

And the team is nice (I've met some of them at PyCon or FOSDEM).

The framework is pleasant to use, and there is a descriptive language, kv, which is really great.

Cross compiling may be painful though (I did it for Android) and the app loading time is a bit long, but it's working.

Some things may be missing in comparison to big frameworks such as Qt, there is no WebView for instance, and accessibility is unfortunately not as good.

It's overall a very good project and it's a pity that it's not more known and used.

I'm using XMPP for chatting of course, but also for blogging (my blog is XMPP based), A/V calls, events organization, file sharing, photo albums sharing, as a remote (with ad-hoc command, I've even built an specific UI to control MPRIS supporting player). I'm building an agenda, a forum, a generic list tool (TODO, shopping list), and other stuff.

I'm using Snikket to host a small server for family and friends, with accompanying mobile clients.

I've also built an XMPP <=> ActivityPub gateway (soon to be released, but dev version is already available), so my blog is accessible from any AP supporting client, and I can access the AP ecosystem (including events as seen in Mobilizon).

There is Slidge IM if you wanna talk to legacy network such as Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, Mattermost, Steam, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Matrix, VoIP.ms.

There is Biboumi if you wanna talk to IRC.

There are old and new email gateways on the work (I'll be working on one myself).

XMPP is used in many fields (from healthcare to games), you can have an idea at https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/ but I have the feeling that this list is not up-to-date and is incomplete. I think that it's used in Fornite for instance.

So yeah, we may not be the best for marketing, and we not have as much resources as we should, but XMPP is still well alive and kicking!

edit: Fornite is actually mentioned at https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming/ .

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Note: I'm very involved in XMPP, and the author of the latter XEP.

Edit: forgot to mention that it's also available to ActivityPub thanks to the XMPP <=> AP gateway (that I've authored too)

But no data on license, weight, or whatever, it looks like the repos are in the process of being uploaded.If what we can see on the demo is not faked, it's quite impressive.

How is it for app development? I've seen that they have started to showreels for apps (https://godotengine.org/article/announcing-godot-2022-showre...) and it's quite impressive. I'm wondering if it can be a good alternative to stuff like Qt/Qt Quick for rapid prototyping, or even production app.

The easy export to multiple platforms is a really an interesting point. I'm mostly wondering if it can handle correctly stuff like accessibility, desktop integration, and if it's good at handling texts (Unicode, RTL, etc).

For diagrams, I'm using draw.io (it seems that it's called diagrams.net nowadays), it's FOSS, easy to use and feature-full. It's then easy to add it in the presentation by using the markdown syntax for images.

> probably but GIMP plugins are not something I've looked into

I was just thinking about a black and white or grey level output image with the desired area , no need to integrate it in GIMP of whatever. I've tried a prompt like "keep only the face", but no luck so far.

A few questions:

- would it be possible to use this tool to make automatic mask for editing in something like GIMP (for instance, if I want to automatically mask the hair)?

- would it be possible to have a REPL or something else to make several prompt on the same image? Loading the model takes time, and it would be great to be able to just do it once.

- how about a small GUI or webui to have the preview immediately? Maybe it's not the goal of this project and using `instruct-pix2pix` directly with its webui is more appropriate?

Thanks for the work (including upstream people for the research paper and pix2pix), and for sharing.

I'm wondering also how Rich compares to something like Python Prompt Toolkit.