Nicolas Vérité Application 2008

Copied-pasted and edited Nicolas Vérité Application 2007.

Personal stuff

• Real name: Nicolas Vérité
• Nickname: Nÿco
• Jabber ID: nyco@jabber.fr
• Blog: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
• Microblogs: http://identi.ca/nyco and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
• Location: Paris, France, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way
• Role: XMPP/Jabber evangelist (I am no coder nor protocol designer)
• Also: wikipedist and contributor/moderator at LinuxFR.org
• XXth century-style contact: mailto:nicolas.verite on the Google's e-mail service (which happens to be also an XMPP service)
• 21st century-style contact: nyco@jabber.fr or jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org
• XSF member since my first application in July 2007

History

• In 1996, I discovered both the internet, Linux, Free Software and IRC
• (I don't remember when) I discovered first ICQ, then Yahoo! Messenger (at that time Yahoo! Pager) and then... Jabber !
• Then I just watched Jabber grow
• XMPP was published as an IETF standard in 2004
• I got involved in the french Jabber community at JabberFR.org

Jabber/XMPP Projects

Code

• None. Sorry. I know only two languages: french and english. And well... a little bit of german. Ach gut.
• I sometimes report bugs and suggest features... that help other people code (better)
• Does wiki code count for code?

Documentation

• I have contributed to: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
• I have contributed to the JabberFR Wiki: http://wiki.jabberfr.org
• I blog about Jabber/XMPP and the related areas at: http://nyco.wordpress.com/ and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
• I write news and journals on: http://linuxfr.org
• And I have made several tiny contributions of all forms (but code)

Talks and chats

Where I'm mostly active

• March 2007, Jabber clients at Solutions Linux: SlideShare slideCast
• July 2007, XMPP in general at the LSM (RMLL) in Amiens, France: blog post, PDF slides, SlideShare slides
• October 2007, chat with APRIL: blog announce, LinuxFR, blog post
• January 2008, Jingle at Solutions Linux: Opendocument slides, PDF slides
• February, XMPP in general for Parinux, the Paris area LUG: LinuxFR announce, Parinux annouce, Parinux OpenDocument slides, PDF slides, SlideShare slides
• March 2008, XMPP in general in Paris: blog post, Google Docs Slides, SlideShare SlideCast, 13 MB mp3 in english, just for you dear reader!

All my slides on SlideShare

Evangelization methods

• Talk about XMPP, everywhere
• Demo
• Give talks, publish my slides
• Make people install a client and create an account
• Chat with them
• Invite them to chat rooms
• Transfer them files
• Invite them to chatrooms, so that they can fill their roster
• Talk about the many applications based on XMPP: presence, monitoring, alerts, PubSub, applications, bots, EAI, remote commands, collaborative editing, etc.
• Evanglize on open standards
• Hate the walled-gardens

Plans for the future

• Make people know
• Make people understand
• Make people switch
• Make people adopt
• Find the killer-app
• Understand, document and share
• Write for paper-magazines, so that XMPP can take off also outside the immaterial world
• Revive Jabber Journal? (aouch, I've written it...)
• Secret sauce projects ;-)

Why I like XMPP

Because, it's:

• an open standard
• fun
• modern
• ubiquous
• rapidly-evolving
• got an open and open-minded community, can't believe it, even specs are free(speech)!
• the federating IMP system

Why I'm re-applying

• Because it's cool to be a member
• Because it counts as a vote in XSF, a proof of confidence, in a world where lobbying is more and more important
• Because I'm an active evangelist and I want to do more (even if it's not easy to contribute time)
• Because you're taken more seriously when you give talks if you're an XSF member
• To stay in constant contact with XMPP technologies
• To follow their evolutions

What else?

• I don't know...