There's finally been some noise on the member's list. Rob Norris started a thread about the voting criteria people used to vote on new members. That thread went off on a tangent though. It started to diverge with members wanting to do more than just vote on new members, and really got diverged with the mention of an official JSF project in which I followed up with a more democratic process of nominating current projects to receive that badge.
The idea sounded good since members were calling out for greater marketing, and there needs to be something to market. But Hal called for a more strigent criteria than a nomination and vote, so we were led back to certification. Which seems to be where consensus has fallen for placing the JSF (or Jabber) label on things.
Then Rachel Blackman chimed in reminding us about how history repeats itself. This time within a year. Perhaps the momentum has finally built up for certifying XMPP/Jabber software.
The workings of the inner circle known as the council are quite a mystery, but this is what JSF members are doing in the middle circle.
