David Banes Application 2012
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My Jid
I have two active JID's: dbanes@jabber.org for personal things and dbanes@cleartext.com I use for work.
Affiliation
I am a co-founder of Cleartext, a Sydney, Australia and London, UK based software as a service(SaaS) messaging provider. Our main services are hosted business IM and email with managed security and compliance services. We've offering 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.
- Currently offering a cross platform XMPP IM and micro-blogging desktop client.
- Manages an open source an XMPP microblogging server written in Python.
Why the XSF?
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.
-- David Banes, Founder, Cleartext
