Peter Ferne Application 2010

Personal/Contact details

 * Peter Ferne
 * jid: petef@jabber.com
 * email: petef@jivatechnology.com
 * tel/sms: +447970942261

Jabber/XMPP involvement
I'm relatively new to the community, although I have been a happy Jabber user since the early days and bought a copy of the first Jabber book, it is only recently that I have taken a renewed and enthusiastic interest in XMPP. I first joined the XSF as a member last year.

I am the CTO of a startup Jiva Technology based in Bristol, UK.

We are making heavy use of XMPP (over BOSH) as part of our in house web application platform Specialize In. Here is a quick sketch of the application architecture. It is actually slightly outdated, we now only have one bot and we have developed a RESTful interface to ejabberd called Jubjub which we have released under a BSD style open source licence. We also plan to contribute patches back to the to the JSJaC and Strophe libraries, and to release some of our own JavaScript based client code under an MIT/BSD style open source licence.

I am particularly interested in BOSH, PubSub, MUC and Jingle. I am also very interested in mobile and social web applications. And FWIW I am a member of the W3C Social Web Incubator Group (SWXG).

Whilst I have not been a tremendously active member over the past year I would like to take this opportunity to volunteer to help with the work of the XSF Communications Team.

Motivation
As a member of Bristol Wireless a community co-operative I am a passionate advocate of Open Source.

As a developer with an abiding interest in social software I feel that XMPP is on the verge of wider adoption and I would like to play a small part in promoting understanding of its importance and potential.

Please feel free to get in touch. I am especially keen to hear from other XMPP people in the UK.