Nicolas Vérité Application 2007

I haven't read the other applications, just copied the suggested structure, so that I'm not influenced by their ideas ;-)

As said in User:Nyco:
 * Jabber ID: [xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr nyco@jabber.fr]
 * Blog: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
 * Location: Paris, France
 * ClaimID: http://claimid.com/nyco

My real nickname is Nÿco ;-)

History
Born in 1974 in France, I had my first computer I shared with my brother in... 1984, an Amstrad CPC6128 (with 128 KB of RAM and double-sided floppy disks of 2 x 178 KB).

I discovered both the internet, Linux and the free software in 1996, while studying electronics at INSA of Toulouse (south-west of France), an engineering school.

I don't remember when I discovered first ICQ, then Yahoo! Messenger and then Jabber, but I recently got involved maybe two or three years ago in the french Jabber community at JabberFR.org.

In parallel, I worked during three years as an Oracle DBA in a medium-sized, then three years as a Linux/Unix system engineer in a small-sized open source company, and since 2007 as an opensource consultant/integrator in a big-sized services company.

I also am moderator of LinuxFR.org a higher-quality-than-Slashdot Slashdot-like website, and of course a wikipedist.

Jabber/XMPP Projects
As said just above, I usually work on JabberFR.org.

Code
None.

Sorry guys, I can't code. Code is useful, but there are so many other things that are useful.

Though, I sometimes report bugs and suggest feature requests... that help other code better.

Jabber documentation

 * I have heavily contributed to: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
 * I have contributed to the JabberFR Wiki: http://wiki.jabberfr.org
 * I try to explain, document and find info about Jabber/XMMP and the related areas in my blog at: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
 * I try to give talks
 * I write news and journals on: http://linuxfr.org
 * And I made many tiny contributions of all forms

Plans for the future

 * Make people know and understand
 * Maybe make some of them make the switch
 * Find the killer-app that will make them switch
 * Understand, document and share
 * Try to see further

Talks

 * I did one on Jabber clients at Solutions Linux
 * I will do another one at the LSM
 * I plan to do one for Parinux, the Paris area LUG

Jabber - Why I like it
Because, it's fun, modern, rapidly-evolving and has a bright future... and because it's an open standard.

Why I'm applying

 * To stay in constant contact with Jabber/XMPP technologies
 * To follow their evolutions
 * To propose improvements
 * To provide feedback
 * Closer than what I did until now

Contacts

 * XXth century-style: mailto:nicolas.verite on the Google's mail service (which happens to be also a Jabber service)
 * XXIst century-style: [xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr nyco@jabber.fr] don't hesitate