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+title: "New NLNet Funding"
+date: 2024-07-22
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+author: "Monal"
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+We are pleased to announce that we [got selected in another funding round](https://nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/) by the [EU’s NGI](https://ngi.eu/) via the [NLnet Foundation NGI0 Entrust Fund](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) to work on some important features in Monal.
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+In short this consists of the following tasks (in no special order).
+
+- **Implement Dialpad:**
+Add Dialpad to our Call-UI and backend code to be able to send DTMF tones in A/V calls. This will
+make Monal fully compatible with jmp.chat, like Snikket is already.
+- **Rewrite Chat UI:**
+Our current chat UI is still UIKit-based and it's hard to improve it or fix some UI glitches. We want
+to rewrite and modernize the whole chat UI using SwiftUI. This will not only simplify maintenance a
+lot and allow us to fix these UI glitches, but also enable us to implement modern XMPP features
+like message reactions, message styling, message replies or mentions (see Appendix I for a full list
+of XEPs).
+- **UI work: Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies and Stickers:**
+Implement UI and backend for message reactions (XEP-0444), rich replies (XEP-0461) and
+Stickers, once the chat UI is ported to SwiftUI
+- **XSF work:**
+After having successfully worked on the SASL2 XEP-suite, I want to modernize XEP-0389: Extensible In-Band Registration to also send only password hashes
+instead of cleartext passwords (similar to password upgrades specced in XEP-0480: SASL Upgrade Tasks)
+- **Write documentation of Monal internals:**
+After having started to publish a blog series and wiki articles about Monal's internals (beginning
+with the Handlers Framework), I want to publish blog and wiki articles on our XML query-language
+(intentionally based on the XPath-like syntax of Prosody's query language), the PubSub/PEP
+framework, Model-Classes used as data sources for our UI (MLContact, MLMessage etc.) and
+possibly more.
+
+**Thanks again to NLNet for fund this!**