Jack Moffitt Application 2006

My name is Jack Moffitt, and I'm re-applying for JSF membership.

=History=

I've been a Free Software hacker for a number of years. My first project was the Icecast streaming media server. This led me to work on patent-free media formats, and I have since worked for a number of years on the Xiph.org family of projects. I served numerous times as the Executive Director of the Xiph.org Foundation, have been on the board for its entire lifetime, and have performed various functions such as software development, product management, marketing and business development.

I recently started a new company to make online games using Jabber infrastructure, the Online Game Group.

I have been as JSF member for one year, and have served during that year on both the JSF board and the JSF council.

=Jabber Related Activities=

In maintaining a jabberd 2.x server, I have reported several bugs and even provided patches for a few. My company will continue doing this as much as we can.

Since one of our products is Windows based and there was a shortage of easy to use C libraries for client development on that platform, we have released libstrope, a lightweight, XMPP compliant client and component library.

In the past year my company has made improvements to Punjab, an httpbind implementation in Python, and we've released Palaver, a Python based MUC component.

=Other Activities=

I'm involved in an advisory/board role with the Xiph.org Foundation, and I am a Debian developer.

=Why I'm Re-Applying=

I would like to continue participating in XMPP and Jabber design, development, and promotion.

=Contact Info=

xmpp://jackm@jabber.org