Nicolas Vérité Application 2008

Copied-pasted and edited Nicolas VÃ©ritÃ© Application 2007.

Personal stuff

 * Nickname: NÃ¿co
 * 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

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

Code

 * None. Sorry. I know only two languages: french and english.
 * 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/XMMP and the related areas at: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
 * I write news and journals on: http://linuxfr.org
 * And I have made many tiny contributions of all forms

Talks and chats
Where I'm mostly active All my slides on SlideShare
 * 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!

Plans for the future

 * Make people know
 * Make people understand
 * Make people switch
 * Make people adopt
 * Find the killer-app
 * Understand, document and share

Why I like XMPP
Because, it's:
 * fun
 * modern
 * rapidly-evolving
 * an open standard
 * got an open and open-minded community
 * the fÃ©derating IMP system

Why I'm re-applying

 * Because it's cool to be a member
 * Because it counts as a vote in XSF
 * 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 propose talks if you're an XSF member
 * To stay in constant contact with XMPP technologies
 * To follow their evolutions

Contacts

 * XXth century-style: mailto:nicolas.verite on the Google's mail service (which happens to be also a Jabber service)
 * XXIst century-style: xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr or xmpp:jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org?join