Lucas Nussbaum Application 2005

My name is Lucas Nussbaum and I'm applying to retain my JSF membership.

=History=

I've been involved in the XMPP/Jabber community for a few years now, and in the Free Software community for a few more years.

=Protocol=

I haven't written any JEP yet. I'm more interested in making them work (either by coding or server administration) than writing them. ;)

=Code=

I've written JabberTest, a test framework for Jabber servers, but it would need more love to work well. My main code contribution is XMPP4R, a XMPP/Jabber library written in Ruby. With Stephan Maka, we have been making a lot of progress recently, and I think XMPP4R will soon be used for some very cool things. (There's already a MySQL-based JUD, for example)

=Admin stuff=

I'm administering the French biggest Jabber server, im.apinc.org/jabber.fr (~ 1k concurrent online users on average).

=Evangelism=

To help my server's users, I started JabberFR.org, a french Jabber community site. Its Wiki and its Forum are now considered the main reference in French about Jabber. Jabber desperately need such a website in English, and I'd like to help with that if some native english speakers start to work on this.

=Why I'm reapplying=

I've spent a lot of time working with Jabber during the past year, I still think Jabber is cool, and I'd like to help make it even cooler and more popular.