Ashley Ward Application 2013

I am Ashley Ward and I am applying for XSF membership for the first time. :)

Contact

 * JID (Personal): ashward@jabber.org
 * JID (Work): ashley.ward@surevine.com
 * Email (Personal): ash.wardly@gmail.com
 * Email (Work): ashley.ward@surevine.com

History
I have been involved with IT since I was a wee lad and code in various different languages, but gravitating more recently towards Java and Javascript.

In my current role I have been involved with the creation and deployment of a chat application for one of our clients based on emite/hablar which got me involved in XMPP as a technology a few years ago. More recently I have also been involved in the Buddycloud project.

Coding

 * I am a co-owner of the EmiteGWT projects on github https://github.com/EmiteGWT
 * I contribute to the budycloud project https://github.com/buddycloud
 * I have also contributed to the openfire server project

Work on the XMPP Protocol

 * I am the author of xep-0314 (Security Labels in PubSub) http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0314.html

Why I'm applying

 * I really like XMPP as a protocol (I'm a rare anglebracketophile), and can see it becoming an increasingly useful protocol in the future, and really want to be involved in shaping that. I also really enjoyed being with the community and getting involved at the recent summit, and want more of that :)