Abhinav Singh for Council 2012

Hi, I am Abhinav Singh, aged 28 years, from Bangalore, India. I first applied for XSF membership in 2010 (elected). I am currently an XSF member and applying for XSF council membership.

Me and XMPP

 * Discovered XMPP in Sep, 2007 while working on a self initiated project Gtalkbots
 * I am author of JAXL Library which was later open sourced in Jan, 2009
 * JAXL library implements 51 XMPP XEP's including MUC, PubSub, PEP, File Transfer and others.
 * In 2011, I released WP-Chat plugin for wordpress which was built on top of XMPP
 * From Aug, 2010 till Mar, 2012 I worked on my startup Jaxl with a vision of providing a real-time PUSH transport for applications over cloud that works across all platforms.
 * Jaxl platform was build on top of XMPP and written mostly in Erlang
 * I am author of ebosh, a BOSH connection manager written on top of Erlang OTP
 * I have contributed to exmpp and strophejs
 * Ejabberd/XMPP consultant for WOOW International where I developed Message Carbon, custom MUC and analytics module for Ejabberd.
 * I enjoy helping XMPP developers at stackoverflow and XSF mailing list

Priorities for 2012-13

 * Contribute to existing XEP's specifically BOSH and MUC
 * Contribute ideas and help in development of new XEP's
 * Initiate India XMPP chapter for regular meetings and talks
 * Help XSF infrastructure team with day to day working

Contact Info

 * [xmpp:abhinavsingh(at)jabber.org Jabber]
 * [mailto:mailsforabhinav(at)gmail.com Email]
 * Web