Philipp Hancke Application 2013

=Me= I'm Philipp. You may have seen and heard me at the summit. Or you may have seen [mailto:fippo@goodadvice.pages.de me] posting on standards@xmpp.org or xmpp@ietf.org My [xmpp:fippo@goodadvice.pages.de JID] is the same as my email address, I like to "run my own server".

=Background= I originally came from IRC to PSYC at some point in 2002. I got exposed to the "Jabber" thing at some point afterwards and committed the first XMPP-related stuff in April 2003. I wrote a bunch of messaging-related code since then; reviewed numerous XEPs and found way to many errors in them; also reviewed RFCs 6120 and 6121 way too often. I've been (re)writing some XEPs like 0220 (the dialback thing) and 0288 (the bidi thing), but i prefer implementing stuff to writing specifications.

More recently the webRTC stuff was a chance to take a closer look at Jingle. This was one of the reasons I was at the summit in Brussels.

=Work= I've been working at ESTOS, an Unified Communications & CTI company in Starnberg near Munich since April last year. Our use of XMPP is currently mostly for IM federation. We also do fun stuff like ASN.1, CSTA and SIMPLE. Also, we've just launched a mostly jingle-compliant webRTC-based videochat at go.estos.de.

=Why I am applying= The XSF dinner was excellent. However, Kev did not talk to me the whole evening so I don't want to go as his +1 next year!