Edwin Mons Application 2006

My name is Edwin Mons and I'm applying to retain my JSF membership.

History
I'm currently working as a server architect for iRex Technologies. I got interrested in Jabber via Ralph very early on, but only decided to enter the JSF in 2003, after a few people asked me why I was manning a Jabber Software Foundation booth at FOSDEM while I was no JSF member at all ;)

Jabber/XMPP Projects
In my dayjob, I'm introducing as much Jabber/XMPP as possible. Currently I'm working on an XMPP-based data synchronization tool. In private projects, I try to use as much jabber-related techniques as possible.

Plans for the future
Getting more involved in the JEP/standards track. Helping Ralphm with idavoll since I'm an avid user of pubsub nowadays.

Jabber - Why I like it
This is really not a question that needs to be asked :) Jabber enables me to do a lot of things in a standardized way, while before I had to use a lot of proprietary protocols to do the same.