Mike Taylor Application 2014

About bear (aka Mike Taylor)

 * mailto://bear@bear.im
 * xmpp://bear@bear.im
 * &yet

I've been coding since the days of paper tape and punch cards and I've always been involved in message traffic.

It started with my time in the Marines where I wrote code to translate mainframe and mini computer traffic to something the (then very new) Z100 computers could handle and output to 5 level baudot paper tape. After that I quickly progressed thru BBS's, FidoNet, UUCP networking, early email work, IRC before it was known as IRC and so on.

Now I'm working on building communities of folks and spreading the word of XMPP to anyone that will listen and introducing it to any company I work for, which happens to be currently &yet

Current Community Involvement
Currently serving on the 2014 XSF Board of Directors.

I'm (slowly) working on converting the XSF Site to a static site to remove the wordpress/PHP requirement.

I'm working on a GitHub Webhooks to XMPP service after discussing it with the GitHub team.

Hopefully soon to begin using/testing the work that Fritzy and Lance are doing with XMPP via Websockets and other JSONy goodness.

Relevant Professional Experience
I've been using XMPP to develop many a bot for companies and projects most of which were created using xmpppy and more recently SleekXMPP. The bots and components I've created range from your usual IRC/MUC loggers, to developer support bots that monitor server and services and output information updates to IRC and the most complicated one was a bot that acted as the "front end" for a web based conference calling system where it accepted inputs from IRC, MSN, AIM, Jabber and SMS and then interfaced on the users behalf with the ruby app.

Successfully planned and implemented an XMPP and PubSub service for Seesmic - all Seesmic users had nodes for any of their public (and private) events and the PubSub nodes are now used as the source of real-time updates for the Seesmic ajax client.

Working with &yet as their Operations team

Plans As a Member

 * Finish conversion of XSF site to a static page
 * Write NodeJS Git WebHooks to XMPP service
 * Gathering whitepapers and docs for the XSF site
 * work on hooking more realtime web tech to XMPP backends
 * generate Python examples for XMPP tech
 * help spread the word of XMPP to anyone that has ears