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I am 36 old software enginner. I come from Poland and I live in Cambridge, UK. Apart from my professional job I used to participate to a few open source projects: [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools], [http://generguide.sourceforge.net/ GenerGuide], [http://wttools.sourceforge.net WTTools] and the last one, Jabber/XMPP related: [http://www.tigase.org Tigase]. Most of my profesional work was around implementation of network servers and network protocols. | I am 36 old software enginner. I come from Poland and I live in Cambridge, UK. Apart from my professional job I used to participate to a few open source projects: [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools], [http://generguide.sourceforge.net/ GenerGuide], [http://wttools.sourceforge.net WTTools] and the last one, Jabber/XMPP related: [http://www.tigase.org Tigase]. Most of my profesional work was around implementation of network servers and network protocols. | ||
Apart from software development work I wrote also a few articles about working with | Apart from software development work I wrote also a few articles about working with Emacs, Java and XML: "[http://wttools.sourceforge.net/emacs-stuff/emacsandjdee.html Emacs and JDEE]", "[http://wttools.sourceforge.net/emacs-stuff/emacsandxml.html Tools and methods for XML]" and "[http://wttools.sourceforge.net/emacs-stuff/basicxml.html Editing XML files]". | ||
Software development is not just a way to earn money for me. I like doing it, I enjoy creating something new | Software development is not just a way to earn money for me. I like doing it, I enjoy creating something new | ||
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After some time, using Jabber client was not enough for me. I decided I want to have my own server installed. | After some time, using Jabber client was not enough for me. I decided I want to have my own server installed. | ||
About | About 2 years ago I started to think about own implementation of Jabber/XMPP server. | ||
That was start of [http://www.tigase.org Tigase] project | That was start of [http://www.tigase.org Tigase] project. | ||
At the moment Tigase project includes not just Jabber/XMPP server but also dedicated XML parser and | At the moment Tigase project includes not just Jabber/XMPP server but also dedicated XML parser and test suite with built-in scripting language for testing network servers. | ||
test suite with built-in scripting language for testing network servers. | |||
==Jabber/XMPP Projects== | ==Jabber/XMPP Projects== | ||
I am involved in only one Jabber/XMPP project: [http://www.tigase.org Tigase]. | |||
This project, however, consists of a few subprojects which are not directly dependent on Jabber/XMPP | This project, however, consists of a few subprojects which are not directly dependent on Jabber/XMPP server implementation. | ||
server implementation. | |||
===Code=== | ===Code=== | ||
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many different services where instant reaction is required. | many different services where instant reaction is required. | ||
==Why I'm | ==Why I'm reapplying== | ||
I was working on my Jabber/XMPP project alone for a long time | I want to continue my contribution. | ||
to my project development and I would like also to actively participate in developing ideas around that technology. | As I was working on my Jabber/XMPP project alone for a long time wich is not good. I would prefer to share my ideas with the community and receive feedback from other people working on similar goals. I have dedicated much time to my project development and I would like also to actively participate in developing ideas around that technology. | ||
I think this is the right time to attract more people to Jabber community as now we have excellent client applications which are far ahead of commercial alternatives. |