Mike Taylor Application 2015

About bear

 * Mike Taylor
 * mailto://bear@bear.im
 * xmpp://bear@bear.im
 * &yet

I've been involved with development and messaging since the days when network node counts rarely exceeded 2 digits and even then messaging was a tough nut to crack.

Z100 computers sending messages across satellite radio, 5 level baudot paper tape code, BBS's, FidoNet, the beginnings of TCP, the early days of what became the Internet and so on.

Now tho my main focus is in the community of people who work with XMPP and trying to spread XMPP to anyone that will listen -- by enabling the great developers who a part of the &yet team to build amazing XMPP based systems. Now I'm working on building communities of folks and spreading the word of XMPP to anyone that will listen and introducing it to any company I work for, which happens to be currently

Current Community Involvement
Current maintainer of the wonderful SleekXMPP Python library and working via &yet to get more XMPP tools visible to the web developers of the world.

Relevant Professional Experience
Currently Manager of Operations and Manager of Development at &yet where we are creating new tools to enable web application that will have XMPP as it's messaging and signalling back-end.

Successfully planned and implemented an XMPP and PubSub service for Seesmic - all Seesmic users had nodes for any of their public (and private) events and the PubSub nodes are now used as the source of real-time updates for the Seesmic ajax client.

Plans As a Member

 * work on hooking more realtime web tech to XMPP backends
 * generate Python examples for XMPP tech
 * help spread the word of XMPP to anyone that has ears