Emmanuel Gil Peyrot Application 2020

This is my membership reapplication to the XSF membership for Q3 2020.

Contact

 * Name: Emmanuel Gil Peyrot
 * Nickname: Link Mauve
 * XMPP address: [xmpp:linkmauve@linkmauve.fr linkmauve@linkmauve.fr]
 * Email address: [mailto:linkmauve@linkmauve.fr linkmauve@linkmauve.fr]
 * Website: linkmauve.fr
 * Company: Télécom Paris

Who am I?
I’ve been an XMPP user since 2006, then quickly became [xmpp:linkmauve.fr service administrator], took part to the French XMPP community then the whole XMPP community, became client developer and library maintainer, XEP author, and council member. I was also a graphics engineer during my previous job, worked on Wayland, DRM and related projects in the graphics stack of Linux. I’m also a game developer on my free time, and recently took an interest into video codecs, including AV1 and Gstreamer.

Why am I reapplying?
I am a firm supporter of federated systems, and want to help the XSF and the various entities who support it reach their goals. I plan on continuing to report and fix specification bugs whenever I encounter them, on continuing to develop XMPP further, both on the technical side, on the user-friendly/marketing side, and on the social side by giving users a stepping point from which to start chatting right away, by helping whoever needs help around XMPP projects, and by generally raising awareness about XMPP.

My current XMPP projects

 * JabberFR, a French association promoting free instant messaging, and providing an XMPP service for about 700 daily users.
 * xmpp-parsers and xmpp-rs, a set of Rust libraries to write XMPP applications with.
 * poezio, a console client for people nostalgic of power IRC clients.
 * Prosody, implementing the missing features identified at JabberFR.