Mick Thompson Application 2012

About me
Mick Thompson, 25, living in Oakland, CA USA. I'm a fellow at Code for America for 2012.

Online I'm often known as dthompson (gmail, twitter, etc)

Evangelism
I've helped a few different projects/companies use XMPP. Also, I have help out a little on a couple XMPP related mailing lists including strophe.

Why I am applying
I've worked on several XMPP projects for a couple of different companies. I would like to continue applying my knowledge gained from those project to help in the community.

Past Projects
I began exploring the use of XMPP while building a simple realtime notification delivery platform with a friend. (Flarify.com) The project was never completed but it did get me immersed in the use and implementation  of several key XMPP extensions (including pubsub, pep, and bosh)

I have administered XMPP servers for a couple of years, and continue to do so for myself and others.

I'm currently working on a MUC web interface as a side project here: http://github.com/dthompson/talkback

My greatest interest with XMPP is to help bring it to larger usage on the web. Using XMPP to chat within the browser, as a means of pushing realtime information to the user, and federating login amongst different sites.

Contacts

 * [xmpp:dthompson@gmail.com JID]
 * [mailto:dthompson@gmail.com e-mail]
 * twitter