Guus der Kinderen Application 2016


 * Name: Guus der Kinderen
 * Jabber IDs: [xmpp:guus.der.kinderen@igniterealtime.org guus.der.kinderen@igniterealtime.org], [xmpp:guusdk@jabber.org guusdk@jabber.org]
 * E-mail address: [mailto:guus.der.kinderen@gmail.com guus.der.kinderen@gmail.com]
 * Company name: GoodBytes
 * Github: guusdk
 * Twitter: @guusdk
 * LinkedIn: guusderkinderen

A software engineer from Rosmalen, the Netherlands. I got introduced to XMPP in the early 2000s, when I was working on my thesis. That thesis later evolved into Nimbuzz, where I was employed for a number of years.

We based Nimbuzz on Openfire, a project that I continued to support in my spare time after I left the company. After Jive Software slowly but surely pulled out, I became the de facto project lead for Openfire. Although somewhat hard to combine with my daytime jobs at the time (didn't have a remote connection to XMPP), I helped keep the project and the broader Ignite Realtime community afloat until dwd stepped up.

Last year, I leaped and/or plunged, quitting my job and starting a business of my own. Now that I'm self-employed, I find myself more and more involved in projects that relate to XMPP (Yey). As a result, the amount of time that I spend on XMPP-related activities has increased a lot. Being more active as ever, and having to owe part of my paycheck to XMPP, I thought it to be good and contribute back to the community, starting by signing up as an XSF member (okay, I started by fixing a link on the xmpp.org website, but this is the next best thing, right?)