Jack Moffitt for Council 2005

History
I've been using and developing with Jabber for a little over a year. It started as mild curiosity, and has now become an integral part of my business. I have a lot of experience with promoting, developing, and standardizing technology gleaned mostly from working with the Xiph.org Foundation.

Jabber Related Work
To date, I have found (and even fixed) some Jabberd2 bugs, provided win32 patches to the Loudmouth project and xmpppy, developed a new client library, libstrophe, and have been preparing the launch of a new startup using Jabber.

Qualifications
I was the original author of the Vorbis over RTP draft Internet standard and the Vorbis and MIDI in Ogg format, and I managed all releases of the Ogg project from the first one, until after 1.0. I am the original author of the Icecast streaming media server, and have built large scale, robust streaming media farms using it. I have given many talks on Icecast, Xiph, and entrepreneurship in the US and in Europe, as well as written articles for magazines such as Linux Journal and books like Game Programming Gems. At the Xiph.org Foundation I worked with many other companies using Ogg technologies or considering using Ogg technologies.

Areas of Interest
Like most, I'm looking forward to a new profile specification and I think pub-sub is going to be very interesting.

I'm also quite interested in voice and video chat and conferencing.

Why I'm Running
I strive to be involved as much as possible in projects that I believe in and consume of lot of my limited brainpower. My new company is building on this excellent suite of protocols (and on people's implementations), and I would like to give back as much as possible in return.