Ralph Meijer Application 2007

My name is Ralph Meijer (ralphm) and I'm applying for the continuance of my JSF membership.

I've been an active member of the Jabber community since late 2000. I have co-authored a number of XEPs, all around publish-subscribe technologies, and contributed to many others, as well as the XMPP specification submitted to the IETF. Futhermore I have served on the XMPP Council since 2004.

I currently work for Jaiku, on open standards and XMPP, and keep a personal weblog.

Services
I maintain the following Jabber related services:


 * Planet Jabber - *The* aggregate blog of Jabber related blogs.
 * MimÃ­r - A Jabber enabled news service / web-based news reader.

Code
My most visible contributions in terms of code are:


 * Idavoll - A (framework for building a) server-side component that implements a JEP-0060 compliant publish-subscribe service.
 * The XMPP support in the Twisted Framework, of which I am the current maintainer.

Evangelism
I am a strong promoter of Jabber related technologies and have been given presentations at the European conferences FOSDEM, XTech, EuroOSCON, and NLUUG. Also, I've organised a Jabber developers' room and Jabber booth at FOSDEM on several occasions, as well as a booth on EuroOSCON.

Why?
I would like retain my membership to continue my work within the XSF for the European continent. I will also re-apply for the next term of the XMPP Council.