Michael Grigutsch Application 2011

My name is Michael Grigutsch and I'm reapplying for XSF membership.

History
I am a 40 years old, living in Cologne, and studied "Rechtspflege" (a special law study here in Germany for becoming a clerk at a court). Since 2001 I'm working as computer/network administrator for the german federal government.

I'm administrating my own Jabber server since October 2003 with half a dozen of domains, most of them for other people.

Jabber/XMPP Projects

 * jabber.i-pobox.net/xmppnet.de, my Jabber server.
 * contributed to the ejabberd Installation and Operation Guide
 * contributed to PyRSS

XSF contribution
I'm member of the infrastructure team, acting as one of the listmasters, postmasters and hostmasters.

Jabber - Why I like it
I like to build up and maintain communication infrastructure for other people and for myself. (I'm also radio amateur and a former sysop of a fidonet mailbox.) In my opinion, XMPP/Jabber is the best ground to build up such projects in the internet. The potential of XMPP is very big.

Plans for the future/ Why I'm reapplying
I like to continue my work in the infrastructure team. As spammers and bots are becoming a bigger problem on the federated xmpp-network I would like to help to develop new strategies against this abuse and inform other admins about known abusers.

Contact
xmpp:migri@jabber.i-pobox.net mailto:xsf@mailto.migri.de