Alexander Gnauck Application 2006

History

I am 32 years old and live in the south of germany (Heilbronn). I am working as a programmer for 10 years now. I dicovered the jabber protocol in the year 2001, and the technology convinced me from the 1st day. Sice 2001 I'm programming, contributing and promoting xmpp.

• Jid: gnauck@myjabber.net
• Email: gnauck@ag-software.de

Active Jabber/XMPP Projects

• agsXMPP library - multi platform open source XMPP library written in c# for .NET
• SmartJab - free Jabber Client for Smartphones based on agsXMPP
• myJabber Client - Jabber Client
• also working on some other projects that will be released soon

Admin Work

• i administrate the public jabber server at myJabber.net

Evangelism

• I try to help newbies and developers whenever possible in all jabber mailing lists.
• I try o convince everybody from the xmpp technologies for IM or real-time collobration business applications.
• I'm no JEP author, but i try to prove the JEPs and protocols with my source code.
• And of course i always try to be active in protocol discussions on the standards-jig mailing list

Why I'm reapplying

I hope to contribute with my code and experience to the JSF. I also want move forward with E2E encryption, stream compression and better file transfer protocols that works also with clients behind NAT (STUN, ICE).

Wider usage of XMPP on mobile devices.

I'm looking forward to a great year for XMPP in 2006 with protocols like Jingle and big companies like Google.