Jack Moffitt Application 2005

My name is Jack Moffitt, and I'm applying for new JSF membership.

=History=

I've been a Free Software hacker for a number of years. My first project was the Icecast streaming media server. This led me to work on patent-free media formats, and I have since worked for a number of years on the Xiph.org family of projects. I served numerous times as the Executive Director of the Xiph.org Foundation, have been on the board for its entire lifetime, and have performed various functions such as software development, product management, marketing and business development.

I recently started a new company to make online games using Jabber infrastructure, the Online Game Group.

=Jabber Related Activities=

In maintaining a jabberd 2.x server, I have reported several bugs and even provided patches for a few. My company will continue doing this as much as we can.

Since one of our products is Windows based and there was a shortage of easy to use C libraries for client development on that platform, we have released libstrope, a lightweight, XMPP compliant client and component library.

Also, we created a protocol debugger, XMPP Inspector. This project is still pretty basic, although it's better than using telnet.

=Other Activities=

As I said I'm still involved with the Xiph.org Foundation (although less actively than in the past). I am also a Debian developer.

=Why I'm Applying=

I would like to continue participating in XMPP and Jabber design, development, and promotion, and get involved even more. I think the foundation could benefit from my experience with other foundations.

=Contact Info=

xmpp://jackm@jabber.org