Nicolas Vérité Application 2008

Copied-pasted and edited Nicolas Vérité Application 2007.

Personal stuff

 * Real name: Nicolas Vérité
 * Nickname: Nÿco
 * Jabber ID: [xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr nyco@jabber.fr]
 * Blog: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
 * Microblogs: http://identi.ca/nyco and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
 * Location: Paris, France, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way
 * Role: XMPP/Jabber evangelist (I am no coder nor protocol designer)
 * Also: wikipedist and contributor/moderator at LinuxFR.org
 * XXth century-style contact: mailto:nicolas.verite on the Google's e-mail service (which happens to be also an XMPP service)
 * 21st century-style contact: [xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr nyco@jabber.fr] or [xmpp:jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org?join jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org]
 * XSF member since my first application in July 2007

History

 * In 1996, I discovered both the internet, Linux, Free Software and IRC
 * (I don't remember when) I discovered first ICQ, then Yahoo! Messenger (at that time Yahoo! Pager) and then... Jabber !
 * Then I just watched Jabber grow
 * XMPP was published as an IETF standard in 2004
 * I got involved in the french Jabber community at JabberFR.org

Code

 * None. Sorry. I know only two languages: french and english. And well... a little bit of german. Ach gut.
 * I sometimes report bugs and suggest features... that help other people code (better)
 * Does wiki code count for code?

Documentation

 * I have contributed to: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
 * I have contributed to the JabberFR Wiki: http://wiki.jabberfr.org
 * I blog about Jabber/XMPP and the related areas at: http://nyco.wordpress.com/ and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
 * I write news and journals on: http://linuxfr.org
 * And I have made several tiny contributions of all forms (but code)

Talks and chats
Where I'm mostly active All my slides on SlideShare
 * March 2007, Jabber clients at Solutions Linux: SlideShare slideCast
 * July 2007, XMPP in general at the LSM (RMLL) in Amiens, France: blog post, PDF slides, SlideShare slides
 * October 2007, chat with APRIL: blog announce, LinuxFR, blog post
 * January 2008, Jingle at Solutions Linux: Opendocument slides, PDF slides
 * February, XMPP in general for Parinux, the Paris area LUG: LinuxFR announce, Parinux annouce, Parinux OpenDocument slides, PDF slides, SlideShare slides
 * March 2008, XMPP in general in Paris: blog post, Google Docs Slides, SlideShare SlideCast, 13 MB mp3 in english, just for you dear reader!

Evangelization methods

 * Talk about XMPP, everywhere
 * Demo
 * Give talks, publish my slides
 * Make people install a client and create an account
 * Chat with them
 * Invite them to chat rooms
 * Transfer them files
 * Invite them to chatrooms, so that they can fill their roster
 * Talk about the many applications based on XMPP: presence, monitoring, alerts, PubSub, applications, bots, EAI, remote commands, collaborative editing, etc.
 * Evanglize on open standards
 * Hate the walled-gardens

Plans for the future

 * Make people know
 * Make people understand
 * Make people switch
 * Make people adopt
 * Find the killer-app
 * Understand, document and share
 * Write for paper-magazines, so that XMPP can take off also outside the immaterial world
 * Revive Jabber Journal? (aouch, I've written it...)
 * Secret sauce projects ;-)

Why I like XMPP
Because, it's:
 * an open standard
 * fun
 * modern
 * ubiquous
 * rapidly-evolving
 * got an open and open-minded community, can't believe it, even specs are free(speech)!
 * the federating IMP system

Why I'm re-applying

 * Because it's cool to be a member
 * Because it counts as a vote in XSF, a proof of confidence, in a world where lobbying is more and more important
 * Because I'm an active evangelist and I want to do more (even if it's not easy to contribute time)
 * Because you're taken more seriously when you give talks if you're an XSF member
 * To stay in constant contact with XMPP technologies
 * To follow their evolutions

What else?

 * I don't know...