Philippe Sultan Application 2008

My name is Philippe Sultan, I live in Paris, France. I work as a network and systems engineer for INRIA, a french institute for research in computer science. I also contribute to the Asterisk IPBX open-source software as a developer.

History
I entered the Jabber/XMPP world with a background made of open-source programming (C, Java), IP and SIP based networks deployment and administration. At that time (back in 2006), I was searching to deploy a robust IM system for INRIA, and I quickly figured out that building our enterprise IM project off of XMPP software components was the way to go. This year I attended the fourth XSF summit in Brussels, and organized a SIP/SIMPLE - XMPP workshop in Paris which gathered SIP and XMPP developers.

Why I'm reapplying
As a member of the XSF, I had the luck to share ideas, test new protocol stacks, and constantly improve my understanding of XMPP. I'm reaplying because I want to keep on contributing to the community as I learn a lot from it.

XMPP Projects
I'm involved in the Asterisk IPBX open-source project as a developer. My contributions mostly cover the XMPP modules. I also set up an XMPP server (jabberd2) for INRIA, which I am now maintaining. BOSH is another topic I'm interested in.

Code
I contribute code to Asterisk, and shamelessly use JsJac without contributing back, but that's because I was not able to find substantial bugs :)

Asterisk
I maintain the XMPP modules in Asterisk :
 * the base XMPP stack ;
 * the GoogleTalk channel driver ;
 * the Jingle channel driver.

I recently set up a public access to an Asterisk server in order to test our Jingle stack. Some tested the server (big thanks to them!), some even crashed it :), so it looks like improvements are needed here.

BOSH
I'm developing a web based unified communications platform (IM + VoIP conferences) based on Stefan Strigler's JsJac Javascript API and JabberHTTPBind Java servlet.

Administration
I'm the administrator of INRIA's XMPP server, which keeps serving more and more users.

Plans for the future
Improve Asterisk's base XMPP stack and Jingle channel driver. Extend the usage of XMPP over the Web along with Asterisk as much as possible. And of course, meet the XSF members at various events.

Contact information
xmpp / sip / mailto : philippe.sultan at inria.fr

xmpp / Gtalk / mailto : philippe.sultan at gmail.com