Difference between revisions of "Kevin Smith Application 2010"

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I'm Kevin Smith, xmpp:kevin@doomsong.co.uk, and I'm applying to retain my XSF membership. Email's mailto:kevin@kismith.co.uk.

History

I've a PhD from the University of Exeter, (a study into Simulated Annealing Techniques for Multi-Objective Optimisation), I worked as R&D Manager at a company developing credit card fraud detection systems, and I now work for Isode in the XMPP team (this application is, as always, personal). I've been an XSF member since 2005, and a council member since 2006. I'm chairing the current XSF Council.

Jabber/XMPP Projects

Code

I was project leader for the Psi client for nearly 5 years, until early last year.
I'm now coding on the new Swift client with Remko.
I wrote the SleekMigrate app for migrating between XMPP server software.
I developed much of the SleekBot, which is a bot for running in MUCs - it's active in the jabber and jdev mucs on jabber.org, as well as Psi's muc.
My (abandoned) MaybeLater task manager system accepted new tasks through an XMPP bot.
I have contributed to the SleekXMPP Python XMPP library.
In my day job I work on the M-Link server (among other things).

XMPP Protocol

I'm a co-author of several XEPs, read all the XEPs that go through (it's hard to review them for Council otherwise).

XMPP documentation

XMPP: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly, which has been out about a year now. It's good, really - buy it please.

Plans for the future

As well as continuing work on Swift, I intend to continue contributing to XEPs and chairing council. I also expect I'll keep doing XMPP stuffs at Isode.

XMPP - Why I like it

I came to Jabber because I was on Linux and didn't like the thought of using clients that had to play catch-up to the legacy networks; Jabber's open standard felt cleaner. As a geek, helping to set up the university Jabber server was also an appeal. I got drawn into development with Psi and learned more about the protocol decided it's a standard worth supporting. I've since had a great deal of contact with the communit(y|ies), and met a good bunch of people at FOSDEM and the XMPP Summit that help me want to keep being involved.

XSF Work

I'm a Council member.
I chair Council.
I'm the infrastructure team lead.
I'm one of the jabber.org admins (not strictly XSF).
I'm an XSF org admin for GSoC this year.
I perform small tasks like proofreading for the commteam.
I'm on the review team.

Why I'm reapplying

So I can keep doing what I'm doing in the XSF.

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-I'm Kevin Smith, [xmpp:kevin@doomsong.co.uk xmpp:kevin@doomsong.co.uk], and I'm applying to retain my XSF membership.
-==History==
+I'm Kevin Smith, xmpp:kevin@doomsong.co.uk, and I'm applying to retain my XSF membership. Email's mailto:kevin@kismith.co.uk.
-I've a PhD from the University of Exeter, (a study into Simulated Annealing Techniques for Multi-Objective Optimisation), I worked as R&D Manager at a company developing credit card fraud detection systems, and I now work for [http://isode.com Isode] in the XMPP team. I've been an XSF member since 2005, and a council member since 2006. I'm chairing the current XSF Council.
+{|
+|width="100%"|
+== Contents ==
+</div>
+* [[#History|<span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span>]]
+* [[#Jabber.2FXMPP_Projects|<span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Jabber/XMPP Projects</span>]]
+** [[#Code|<span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Code</span>]]
+** [[#XMPP_Protocol|<span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">XMPP Protocol</span>]]
+** [[#XMPP_documentation|<span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">XMPP documentation</span>]]
+** [[#Plans_for_the_future|<span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Plans for the future</span>]]
+* [[#XMPP_-_Why_I_like_it|<span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">XMPP - Why I like it</span>]]
+* [[#XSF_Work|<span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">XSF Work</span>]]
+* [[#Why_I.27m_reapplying|<span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Why I'm reapplying</span>]]
+|}
+== History ==
+I've a PhD from the University of Exeter, (a study into Simulated Annealing Techniques for Multi-Objective Optimisation), I worked as R&amp;D Manager at a company developing credit card fraud detection systems, and I now work for [http://isode.com Isode] in the XMPP team (this application is, as always, personal). I've been an XSF member since 2005, and a council member since 2006. I'm chairing the current XSF Council.
+== Jabber/XMPP Projects ==
+=== Code ===
-==Jabber/XMPP Projects==
-===Code===
 * I was project leader for the [http://psi-im.org/ Psi] client for nearly 5 years, until early last year.
 * I'm now coding on the new [http://swift.im/ Swift] client with Remko.
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 * In my day job I work on the M-Link server (among other things).
-===XMPP Protocol===
+=== XMPP Protocol ===
 I'm a co-author of several XEPs, read all the XEPs that go through (it's hard to review them for Council otherwise).
-===XMPP documentation===
+=== XMPP documentation ===
-* [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157197/ XMPP: The Definitive Guide] for O'Reilly, which goes to press today. It's good, really - buy it please.
+* [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157197/ XMPP: The Definitive Guide] for O'Reilly, which has been out about a year now. It's good, really - buy it please.
-===Plans for the future===
+=== Plans for the future ===
-As well as continuing work on Swift, I intend to continue  contributing to XEPs and chairing council. I also expect I'll keep doing XMPP stuffs at Isode.
-==XMPP - Why I like it==
+As well as continuing work on Swift, I intend to continue contributing to XEPs and chairing council. I also expect I'll keep doing XMPP stuffs at Isode.
-I came to Jabber because I was on Linux and didn't like the thought of using clients that had to play catch-up to the legacy networks;  Jabber's open standard felt cleaner. As a geek, helping to set up the university Jabber server was also an appeal. I got drawn into development with Psi and learned more about the protocol decided it's a standard worth supporting. I've since had a great deal of contact with the communit(y|ies), and met a good bunch of people at FOSDEM and the XMPP Summit that help me want to keep being involved.
+== XMPP - Why I like it ==
+I came to Jabber because I was on Linux and didn't like the thought of using clients that had to play catch-up to the legacy networks; Jabber's open standard felt cleaner. As a geek, helping to set up the university Jabber server was also an appeal. I got drawn into development with Psi and learned more about the protocol decided it's a standard worth supporting. I've since had a great deal of contact with the communit(y|ies), and met a good bunch of people at FOSDEM and the XMPP Summit that help me want to keep being involved.
+== XSF Work ==
-==XSF Work==
 * I'm a Council member.
 * I chair Council.
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 * I'm on the review team.
-==Why I'm reapplying==
+== Why I'm reapplying ==
 So I can keep doing what I'm doing in the XSF.