Kevin Smith Application 2015

I've gone for a greatly shortened application this year, to try to save everyone time reading it. For those interested, not much is different to http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Kevin_Smith_Application_2014

I'm Kevin Smith, I work at Isode Ltd. where I'm responsible for the XMPP server and client activities. I use mailto:kevin@kismith.co.uk for email, and xmpp:kevin@doomsong.co.uk for XMPP.

Within the XSF I've been a member for a long time, on Council for a long time, been Chairing Council for a while. I'm usually a GSoC admin when we participate, I'm on the infrastructure team and I sometimes chair the Brussels Summits. I also generally poke my nose into the rest of the XSF's business.

My XMPP history is that I ran the Psi project for a number of years, run the Swift project, run the M-Link project, co-wrote the O'Reilly XMPP book, and have done various smaller things like SleekXMPP contributions, bots, migration tools etc. I've written XEPs. I'm also an admin for jabber.org.

I'm applying because I've been contributing to the XSF for a long time and want to continue doing so.