Stephan Maka Application 2012


 * Jabber-Id
 * astro@spaceboyz.net


 * E-Mail
 * stephan@spaceboyz.net


 * Previous applications
 * 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

=Activities in 2011=


 * Participated in the XSF Summit for the first time
 * Continued development on the XMPP library for Node.js, node-xmpp
 * Finished my diploma thesis: Design and Implementation of a Federated Social Network
 * Helped mentoring a GSoC student

=XMPP in the present and future= I am very happy that with XMPP the domain of Instant Messaging has arrived at a common technical base now. That is what e-mail and hypertext achieved a decade earlier.

However, today's Internet usage is becoming dominated by social media through social networks. We're facing the very same threat many of the now-open systems had in their infancy: locked-down platforms with no open standards that won't let their users communicate unless they use the same provider. I want to be a part of changing this situation, and XMPP is suited greatly for social networking. =Current activities= I remain hacking for buddycloud under regency of Simon Tennant. It is really great that our code is open source from day 0, which I believe is critical for a reference implementation of a new (open) system.

There are a couple of new protocols we base on top of XEP-0060 Publish-Subscribe like caching PubSub inboxes. I know we still owe a very formal specification of these. We're still working on version 1.0 of our product to prove suitability for a broad range of users. After that, we will definitely take care of good documentation, because we agree that having multiple implementations is a great advantage.