Nathanael Fritz Application 2008

About Nathanael Fritz
I am a 27 year old professional programmer, full-time XMPP developer at Seesmic, owner/founder of Bridged Analytics LLC., father, and XMPP enthusiast since 2000. There is something about XMPP/Jabber that has always held my interest, and I look forward to being formally involved as an XSF member. I recently let my membership lapse as I was busy transitioning my company, transitioning to a new job at Seesmic, and having our second child.

Current Community Involvement

 * Author and maintainer of XMPPHP, a PHP5 library which powers identi.ca and many other services, and has been incredibly popular since initial beta in April.
 * Author and maintainer of SleekXMPP, a Python client/server library. I recently added Publish-Subscribe, and the entire library is being refactored.
 * Author and maintainer of TwhiX, a new XMPP library for AS3 that has proper TLS support, is XMPP 1.0 complaint, and works with all XMPP servers. This library will be released to the public soon by my employer.
 * I started and currently advise for SleekBot, a bot framework based on SleekXMPP.
 * I host Psi's development server and MUC room.
 * I am actively involved in discussions with XSF members about XMPP and XEPs.

Relevant Professional Experience

 * I am currently employed as the XMPP Developer at expert at Seesmic.
 * I have extensive project management experience which includes code architecture, people management, feature and bug management, and vision as CTO/Dev Lead at Bridged Analytics.

Future Community Plans

 * Development of a test suite for the entire Publish-Subscribe specification to test server/component compliance.
 * Continue to develop and support XMPPHP, SleekXMPP, and TwhiX.

Plans As a Member

 * I will provide feedback from existing XEPs based on implementation experiences.
 * I will offer my services for interoperability testing, and contribute testing framework code.
 * I will contribute and review reference code for clients and servers.
 * I will contribute to other community members' projects to help them become more XMPP compliant.
 * I will offer my project management skills to the XSF for committees and projects.

Contact Information
Email/XMPP: fritzy@netflint.net Preferred Email: nathanfritz@gmail.com