Matt Tucker for Board 2006

About
I'm the CTO of Jive Software and manage our Open Source projects Wildfire, Spark, and Smack. I've been involved with the XMPP/Jabber community for several years and participate in the JEP process.

Why I'm Applying
The XMPP protocol and Jabber community have made excellent progress over the past several years, especially on the technical side. The council has been effective at moving the protocol forward and the very broad range of XMPP implementations proves that all is well on technical side. However, the board's role has been less prominent and it's harder to point to specific things accomplished (other than the work done by Peter as the Executive Director).

I believe that the board can be more effective by being "execution focused", otherwise known as getting **** done. My priorities fall into several major areas:


 * Re-launch of the websites (jabber.org, xmpp.org, xmpp.net, etc). There has been some good initial discussions on the member's mailing list. The board's role should be to help marshall resources and to make critical decisions about website content.
 * Developer relations. Create a testing environment and test suite for interoperability. Consider further interop events or perhaps a developer conference.
 * Public relations: how do we win the standards battle or turn the "battle" into a non-issue by getting every major vendor to adopt XMPP?
 * Operationalize the JSF by getting people to take over more responsibilities from Peter. We don't want to drive him into the ground. :)

Contact
Reach me by XMPP: matt@jivesoftware.com