Philipp Hancke for Council 2014

=History=

I've been involved with Jabber since 2004, coming from IRC and PSYC. Most of that time opposing XMPP, which has given me a quite useful perspective. I still can't say I like XML or XMPP, but Lance Stout hides XML behind a JSON API for me so that is ok. Also, the XMPP specs are good enough that I only find minor bugs when implementing them.

I joined &yet in March 2014 and am working (from Richland, WA as of next month) on talky.io and the upcoming xmpp-based talky2.

=Contributions= I somehow ended up publishing a number of new XEPs and voting for them to be accepted during the last council term. XEP-0338 and XEP-0339 were missing pieces to the mapping of WebRTC SDP to Jingle and back. XEP-0340 (together with Emil Ivov) has been key to creating Jitsi Meet, a browser based client for the Jitsi Videobridge, powered by WebRTC. XEP-0353 was something I promised to write up after the Brussels summit -- it obviously took a little longer than I expected. I was also part of the UPNP liason team.

=Priorities= What I said last year about XMPP and WebRTC still holds true. The basic mapping of Jingle to the WebRTC SDP has been pretty stable in 2014 with almost no changes requires to code I (or Lance Stout) have written. While I still consider forking of jingle initiation requests to multiple clients important, my focus has shifted towards the integration between Multiuser Chats, Jingle and CoLiBri. We made alot of progress here, but like WebRTC itself this is quite a big task.

And we still need to finish the DNA and POSH stuff in the IETF XMPP Working Group. =Contact= xmpp:fippo@goodadvice.pages.de -- or email at the same address. I am aware the server cert has expired more than five years ago.