Mick Thompson Application 2013

About me
Mick Thompson, 26, living in Oakland, CA USA. I'm the Engineer in Residence at Code for America.

Online I'm often known as dthompson (gmail, twitter, etc)

Evangelism
I've helped a few different projects/companies use XMPP. Also, I have help out a little on a couple XMPP related mailing lists including strophe.

Why I am reapplying
I've worked on several XMPP projects for a couple of different companies. I would like to continue applying my knowledge gained from those project to help in the community.

This year: I'm working on developer chat room project, and of coursing using XMPP. More info to come.

Past Projects
I began exploring the use of XMPP while building a simple realtime notification delivery platform with a friend. (Flarify.com) The project was never completed but it did get me immersed in the use and implementation  of several key XMPP extensions (including pubsub, pep, and bosh)

I have administered XMPP servers for a couple of years, and continue to do so for myself and others.

I'm currently working on a MUC web interface as a side project here: http://github.com/dthompson/talkback

My greatest interest with XMPP is to help bring it to larger usage on the web. Using XMPP to chat within the browser, as a means of pushing realtime information to the user, and federating login amongst different sites.

Contacts

 * [xmpp:dthompson@gmail.com JID]
 * [mailto:dthompson@gmail.com e-mail]
 * twitter