Michael Weibel Application 2014

I'm Michael Weibel and applying for XSF Membership.

Contact Details
Jabber ID: [xmpp:weibelm@jabber.org weibelm@jabber.org]

Email: [mailto:michael.weibel+xsf@gmail.com michael.weibel+xsf@gmail.com]

Company: Mila AG, Zurich

Current Job
I'm employed as a Software Engineer working on two subjects mainly:

1. Design, Implementation & Maintenance of the XMPP services

I built & designed the Implementation of XMPP on Mila (Ejabberd setup, Implementation of ejabberd modules to connect to our APIs, Web based Chat client, Guiding iOS/Android devs in implementing their XMPP client).

2. Web development

Besides the XMPP chat client for the web I also work on the website itself, implementing various parts of it.

Projects

 * Lead developer & one of the creators of Candy - Web based MUC client
 * Recently started with an automated XMPP Server Benchmark suite

Other XMPP activities
Contributed various Pull requests to Strophe.js and Strophe.js Plugins.

Motivation
I enjoy developing software using XMPP and think that being part of the XSF is a natural way of showing my commitment to it.