Who is cosmic from xmpp
Executive summary
Available sources do not identify anyone named “Cosmic” as a person or entity within the XMPP community; search results instead show the XMPP Standards Foundation’s newsletters, summit pages and related project activity but no mention of “Cosmic” in an XMPP context (available sources do not mention “Cosmic” in XMPP). The XMPP project’s public materials through 2025 document community events (XMPP Summit 27) and monthly newsletters covering projects and stewardship but contain no direct reference to a user, bot, or project called “Cosmic” on xmpp.org or the XSF mailing lists [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. What the records actually show: XMPP’s public channels and topics
The XMPP community communicates publicly through the XSF website, newsletters and mailing lists. The XMPP site hosts summit pages (XMPP Summit 27 in January 2025) and a regular Newsletter series (June and July 2025 issues) that list projects, events and developer sprints such as the Berlin sprint attended by Conversations, Dino, ejabberd and other clients and servers [1] [3] [5]. The standards mailing-list archive is also active and indexed by month [4]. None of these indexed public outputs mention a project, developer handle or bot named “Cosmic” in the provided results [1] [2] [3] [4].
2. Common places you’d find a name like “Cosmic” — and why it’s not visible
If “Cosmic” were a notable XMPP account, bot, project, or XMPP Extension (XEP), it would typically appear in one of several places: the XMPP Blog or Newsletter, XEP repositories or the standards mailing lists, or event agendas for XMPP Summit / FOSDEM sessions [6] [7] [1]. The provided sources show active newsletters and summit reports but do not contain an entry or story headlined with or referencing “Cosmic” [2] [3] [1]. Therefore, within this dataset “Cosmic” is not visible in the community’s canonical public records.
3. Possible sources of confusion: similarly named projects outside XMPP
Search results include several “Cosmic”-adjacent hits that are unrelated to XMPP and could explain cross-source confusion: a Linux desktop called COSMIC (System76’s COSMIC DE) appears in tech coverage (The Register) but is part of Pop!OS and not an XMPP project [8]. Entertainment/outside domains use the word “cosmic” too (gaming and astrology pages), which can create noise in web searches [9] [10]. The presence of a high-profile “COSMIC” desktop project in other technology press increases the chance that someone searching for “cosmic xmpp” finds non-XMPP results [8] [9].
4. How to find “Cosmic” if it exists but is not in these sources
If “Cosmic” is a newer, private, or niche XMPP handle or bot, it might only appear on personal repositories, individual server rosters, GitHub projects, or in private chat logs—areas not covered in the supplied search results. The XSF mailing-list archive and xmpp.org newsletters are the community’s canonical public records; absence there suggests either the name is not used publicly, is brand-new, or is indexed elsewhere [4] [2].
5. Conflicting interpretations and what each implies
One interpretation: “Cosmic” is not part of the XMPP ecosystem in any public, documented way—supported by the lack of references across xmpp.org newsletters, the standards list indexes, and summit pages [4] [1] [2]. Another interpretation: “Cosmic” exists privately or off the main channels (for example on a personal server or GitHub) and so won’t appear in the public XSF records returned here—this remains possible because available sources do not mention private or third-party references to such an account (available sources do not mention private references).
6. Recommended next steps for verification
Search these specific places beyond the provided corpus: XEP repositories and GitHub under XMPP-related organizations; server rosters on public XMPP servers; the Conversations/Dino/Monal project issue trackers; and broader web search combining the term with likely handles (e.g., “cosmic@domain”, “cosmic bot xmpp”, or “cosmic XEP”). If you want, I can re-run a targeted search of those areas and report back; current supplied documents do not show “Cosmic” in XMPP channels [4] [2] [3].
Limitations: this report is strictly based on the supplied search results; absence in those results does not prove nonexistence outside the indexed pages [4] [1] [2].