John Atherton Application 2013

WORK IN PROGRESS

General Background
After graduating in Computer Science at Southampton University in 1989, I have been in the fortunate position to spend the last twenty-three years working on a wide variety of interesting projects, most often on real-time software applications written in Ada, C++ and Java. These have included Eurofighter flight control systems, Bowman and many real-time telecommunications systems (SS7, VoIP etc). Five years ago, I co-founded Surevine, specialising in collaboration systems often built on open source components and certainly built on open standards where they exist. I have recently been invited to join the UK Cabinet Office Open Standards board.

XMPP Projects
An important collaboration tool, which we often find is part of a suite of collaboration mechanisms we deploy, is instant messaging, which first brought me to XMPP through the Emite project, a IM web client currently overseen by Surevine. Our current XMPP-related focus is Buddycloud and increasingly the "social XEPs".

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