Mickaël Rémond Application 2017

History
I have been active in the Open Source community since 1993, mainly in French Linux non-profit organizations. In december 1998, the Erlang/OTP language and environment have been released under an Open Source license and I have been active in this community since then (Erlang User of the Year 2004 and author of the French Erlang book published by Eyrolles).

My interest for Jabber gets back to 2000, when I was working at a company called IDEALX. I introduced Erlang as one of the main development languages in this company. The company won a big project for large-scale deployment of Jabber Instant Messaging for the French Internet Service Provider LibertySurf. The architecture was built around Jabberd with a lot of Erlang code for clustering, scalability and high-availability (See: The migration from Erlang to OTP: A case study of a heavy duty TCP/IP Client Server application for the summary of the architecture, from an Erlang point of view). At this time, I was in charge of the development of an XML-based EAI (Enterprise Applications Integration system) called Buster.

Since 2005, my involvement in the Jabber community increased, while founding ProcessOne, actively developing ejabberd and related components / software.

I have been involved in the XSF as a member from 2006 to 2009 and served the XSF board in 2009. I kept on working on ejabberd and other XMPP project since then, but I had to reduce my involvement in the community as I needed to focus on expanding and managing ProcessOne. However, this allowed me to gain a lot of experience on push notification service and mobile development, as an addition to server developments. I feel this experience can benefit the XSF. I managed to get a lot more involved in 2015 and 2016 and am planning to keep on in 2017.

Code
I have been working on various XMPP projects over the year. I wrote client library in Erlang and Go. I contributed to ProcessOne work on mobile clients. However, I am mostly known for being one of ejabberd lead developers.

Evangelism
I gave many talks on XMPP over the year I have been working on XMPP (More than 15 years) and plan to keep on doing the same this year. I have launched a video series (XMPP Academy) to help new developers understand the protocol.

Why am I applying this year ?
This year I plan keeping on evangelism about the XMPP protocol. My primary interests at the moment is still heavily on connected things and mobile and push support, but also on chat support implementation on top of XMPP and integration with other web service (APIs).

Contact Information

 * XMPP: mremond[A]process-one.net
 * E-mail: mremond[A]process-one.net