Florian Zeitz Application 2012

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 * Name: Florian Zeitz
 * Nick: Florob
 * E-Mail: [mailto:florob@babelmonkeys.de florob@babelmonkeys.de]
 * JID: [xmpp:florob@babelmonkeys.de florob@babelmonkeys.de]
 * Current Occupation: Student at the RWTH Aachen (Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering)

XMPP Related Activities

 * Running an XMPP-Server for myself and some friends (admittedly small deployment)
 * Written some code for Gajim. Mostly PEP related, including support for User Nickname and User Location (receiving part)
 * Working on Ad-Hoc Command support for Prosody
 * Working on objXMPP a (beta stage) Objective-C XMPP library
 * Working on a web-admin interface for Prosody (using Ad-Hoc and a PubSub dialect)
 * Some (mostly unfinished) work on web applications
 * xmppchat A basic BOSH based MUC web-interface
 * adhocWeb A web client for executing Ad-Hoc commands
 * socialXMPP My test bed for implementing a web-interface to a XMPP based social network (discontinued for now)
 * Annoying people by pointing out XMPP related bugs in their code
 * At least trying to answer questions and be helpful in [xmpp:jdev@conference.jabber.org?join jdev@conference.jabber.org]

Why I am applying
I have long been a fan of open distributed systems. I think it is very important that everybody can use a service they can trust and can rely on. I personally think the best way to ensure that is using your own server or one administered by a friend. XMPP fits this bill very well for IM and that is the original reason I got involved with the XMPP community. I have since found it very exciting to see technology grow and working with the XSF exchanging views on how protocol extensions should work on e.g. the standards@ ML. I've also been participating in discussion within the XMPP WG.