Jehan Pagès Application 2012

My name is Jehan. This would be my 4th year as a XSF member.

About Me
I have the habits to move a lot. For the last month, I have lived in Tokyo, Japan; and I am likely to stay here for some time as I have recently been employed by the American-Japanese company myGengo as a Senior Developer (I have worked with them as a freelancer for some time now, but mostly remotely from South Korea).

Computer Science is not only my work, but only an activity I enjoy. As such, I do Free Software when I have the time, though I don't always have it as much as I'd like. I write XMPP-related Free Softwares, but also participate to any software that I use if I find a bug (or a feature I miss) by at least sending bug reports, and when possible patches.

Also I have several other enjoyments and activities, one of my main other being Music on a very regular basis, everywhere I can (bars, outside, bigger stages, etc.).

XMPP Involvement
I have been involved in XMPP and the XSF for a few years now. First as a simple user, then as my own provider (my server is hosted for my family and a few friends of mine, not as a service to third parts), and finally as a developer, XSF member and technology enthusiast. I can see that XMPP can achieve very interesting usage over the Internet and I would like to see these evolutions (though it stagnated for quite a few years, things look like they are going in the right direction lately!).

My Code
My daily work is exciting, but unfortunately not about XMPP. Hence The following list is done only on limited leisure time.


 * Jabber Feed is a plugin for Wordpress automatically feeding Pubsub nodes with comments, posts, etc. and which provides other related features (like templates for creating XMPP PubSub links, autodiscovery links, a Wordpress widget, etc.).


 * xbookmarks is a Firefox plugin implementing a — for now — very basic bookmarks system through XMPP/PubSub. It is based on XEP-0048. But honestly it is a very early version, not that hype. This is also a "work in progress" that I plan to work again in some future (if I find time for it) and is disabled for now.


 * OCaml XMPP is an Objective Caml XMPP library. Code can be found [git://git.tuxfamily.org/gitroot/ocamlxmpp/ocamlxmpp.git here] but it is still in an early state. I unfortunately don't find a lot of time. I hope I'll be able to work more on it some day soon. :-/


 * I have also an XMPP related project in the ADA2005 language. I prefer not to speak too much of it now while it is very experimental. This is not a library, but a software.


 * XMPP auth is my last XMPP-related project. It is an HTTP authentication plugin for Wordpress using XMPP (XEP-0070). I use it successfully on a few logs (for instance the OCaml XMPP log) where it allows me to authenticate without password (it even allows to disable login via password on per-account basis). And viewers can comment securely via XMPP authentication.

XSF Participation
Lately I don't participate as much as I used to or would like on mailing lists or physical events. Also my timezone being quite far from all other members (them mostly either from Europe or America, me in Eastern Asia) makes it very hard. But I am still willing to improve this fact and to bring my contribution in the XMPP world.

Former participation includes having been to a XSF summit (when I still lived in Europe, a few years back now), giving opinions and bug reports on RFCs and XEPs (you can find me in acknowledgments of the RFC 6120, 6121, a few other drafts, XEP, IETF errata, etc.).

I have also organized an event in Paris, France, for the 10th birthday of XMPP (though it was not with the XSF). I try to advocate XMPP to people I know, amongst others some acquaintances working for Mozilla. And so on.

I don't have a constant participation. This is irregular. But I am always somewhere close and checking emails, ready to write one myself.

Contacts
You can contact me either by email or IM. Both addresses are my name (jehan) hosted at zemarmot.net.