Grégoire Menuel Application 2006

My name is Grégoire Menuel, and I'm applying to become a member of the JSF.

History
I'm a 20 years old student, I study computer science and telecommunication. My school is located in Lyon, France, but I currently live in Karlsruhe, Germany, I'll be staying here for a year.

I use jabber for three years, and I'm an active member of the French-speaking jabber community JabberFR

Jabber servers administration
I'm currently administrating two Jabber servers :
 * A small one for my school (~ 10 concurrent online users)
 * The biggest french jabber server : jabber.fr/im.apinc.org. This server is maintained by a team of administrator and have around one thousand concurrent online users.

Code
I haven't code much for jabber yet. The two main pieces of software I've worked on are :
 * Neutron, a jabber bot, that I've enhanced for serving the purpose of JabberFR. It can for the moment send notification when a wiki page is changed (see this pages in french for more information : http://wiki.jabberfr.org/RobotJabberFR, some of the information may be slightly outdated).
 * Mu-conference : I've been lately submitting quite a lot of patches that improved this component, unfortunately I haven't got any news from the mu-conference developer.

I've also implemented the socks5 file transfer to the python XMPP library xmpp.py, unfortunately my code have never been accepted. The modified version of xmpp.py is still available : http://gpl.insa-lyon.fr/~omega/xmpppy-ft.tar.gz

JabberFR
I'm also one of the administrator of JabberFR, and I give lots of Jabber related advices both on the forum and in the chatroom (jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org).

Plans for the future
I'd like to continue to improve mu-conference, and I may rewrite the JabberFR bot using the Twisted framework.

Why I'm applying
For the moment I haven't be much involved in the JSF discussions, even if I follow the discussions on the Standards JID list. I'd like to be much more involved in the decisions about Jabber/XMPP.

Contacts

 * Mail : gregoire DOT menuel AT gmail DOT com
 * JID : omega AT im.apinc.org