David Banes Application 2015

My JID
I have two active JID's: dbanes@jabber.org for personal things and dbanes@cleartext.com I use for work. The @cleartext address is also my work email address.

Affiliation
I am a co-founder of Cleartext, a Sydney, Australia and London, UK based messaging and collaboration provider. Our main services are hosted business IM and email with managed security and compliance services. We've offer hosted XMPP services like enterprise IM and realtime enterprise microblogging over XMPP.

XMPP Related Activity

 * Continual online promotion and evangelising of Jabber/XMPP technologies since 1999.
 * I've been writing client side XMPP/Jabber code since 1999.
 * Co-author of CipherIM a proprietary IM client converted to the Jabber protocol in 2000-2001.
 * My company (Cleartext) represented Jabber Inc and Jive Software (OpenFire) in Australia from 2005-2009.
 * I served as Director & Chairman of the XSF during the 2008-2009 period.
 * Designed and developed a cross platform XMPP IM and micro-blogging desktop client with associated XMPP based microblogging server (Cleartext ESM)

Why I'm reapplying
Because the net needs a standardised messaging protocol for IM, micro-blogging and other messaging use and the XSF needs support in it's efforts to promote XMPP. I'm really glad to see that most of the large IM platforms now support XMPP or looking at XMPP.

-- David Banes, Founder, Cleartext