Fabio Forno Application 2009

I'm Fabio Forno and this application is a shameless cut & paste from my application of last year, with just few amendments and additions in order to keep track of the changes in my life, such as being aged one year ;)

Contact Information

 * jid: ff _domain_ jabber.bluendo.com
 * email: fabio _domain_ bluendo.com

History
I'm 37 and I'm an Italian entrepreneur and researcher living in Torino, where in the past years I've received my PhD at Politecnico di Torino and worked at ISMB, a privately founded research institute. During my PhD I was interested in context aware applications, and I have studied XMPP, presence technologies and PubSub for offering value added services to mobile and nomadic users. At ISMB my research was RFID Middleware and I've also used XMPP for connecting readers and applications, or for sending event notifications. Two year ago I've founded Bluendo, a company whose main focus is mobile XMPP and the use of XMPP as integration framework for event based systems (e.g. sensor networks, remote control and monitoring, alarms, enterprise service buses).

Code

 * I wrote the first Jabber stack for Twisted Matrix (Twibber), now completely superseded by the excellent Ralph's implementation
 * I'm the co-author of Lampiro, a J2ME XMPP Client, which is now opensourced
 * I wrote a BOSH connection manager, Araneo
 * Currently I'm the maintainer of proxy65
 * My blog is fully integrated with XMPP, using ad hoc commands for post and comment notifications and management

Current activities
As CTO of Bluendo I'm constantly working in several XMPP areas: development of our mobile client, web/XMPP integration, pubsub and M2M communications, design of new applications exploiting XMPP.

Protocol and Standardization

 * I have initiated and then coauthored with stpeter the SOAP over XMPP XEP and recently contributed to few other XEPs like Stream Management
 * I constantly participate to XMPP mailing lists for discussing XEP enhancements and any XMPP related issue
 * I'm interested in anything about mobile optimizations, reliable and secure XMPP sessions, Pubsub and Geolocation, XMPP webservices

Vision about XMPP
I think that XMPP is much more than just instant messaging, it is the ideal protocol for almost any type of realtime communication in the Internet, ranging from enterprise applications to social networks. All we must do is just going on providing great servers, code libraries and open protocols, as the XMPP community is currently doing.

Why I'm re-applying
Because it's the right thing to do and I like the XMPP community ;) Presence is a great thing: let's have more!