Dan Caseley Application 2021

About

 * Name: Dan Caseley
 * Mail address: dan [at] caseley [dot] me [dot] uk
 * JID: [xmpp:fishbowler@xmpp.co fishbowler@xmpp.co], [xmpp:dan.caseley@igniterealtime.org dan.caseley@igniterealtime.org]
 * Github: Fishbowler

Affiliations &amp; Projects

 * Openfire contributor
 * Smack contributor
 * Former Surevine staff member, current Surevine contractor, doing various XMPP-powered projects, XMPP project contributions & integrations
 * Jitsi / Openfire integration & deployment
 * Openfire containerisation & deployment

My present regular employment contains a disappointingly zero amount of XMPP work.

Motivation
Guus said it'd be a good idea to quit playing at the edges and to get more involved, and I've learned not to argue with Guus - he's right too often.

What started as a short project whilst working at Surevine has turned into a personal passion. My background in software testing coupled with a Software Engineering degree means I spend a lot of my time finding problems, then trying to fix them, then getting an actual developer to fix them for real. A lot of my professional time has been spent implementing or testing XMPP software against XEPs for standards compliance (most recently XEP-0045 and XEP-0313) which often including contributions to Smack's integration tests. In doing so, I've gotten a good handle on what's involved in the standards, and think I could enjoy taking a step further forwards and contributing the XSF.