Trevor Krahn for Board 2024
Summary
- Name: Trevor Krahn
- Nick: Root
- JID/Email: root (at) nicolosus (dot) chat
- Founding member at MBOA Technology Co-Operative Inc
- Some Code: https://sr.ht/~root21/ and https://github.com/root021/testxmpp
Affiliations
About Me
I am a long time privacy and security advocate, and will take any opportunity to teach others how they can better secure themselves online, and avoid common privacy pitfalls. This journey led me back into XMPP and I have implemented my own server to use as my main and preferred communications method, as well as using bridge at jmp.chat to communicate with those still on the PSTN. Being part of this community, starting about 3 years ago, later lead to my employment at JMP/MBOA and further being involved in the XMPP community. Throughout my life I have mostly just dabbled in programming, just enough to get done what I needed to do, but have over the last 1.5 years, while working for MBOA, I have been slowly working on improving that and have been working mostly in Ruby and some Android Java.
I co-managed the XMPP booth at the FOSSY 2023 conference in Portland Oregon, and also gave a talk on setting up a Snikket Instance, and how to use it securely. In 2024 I have been working on fixing the XMPP tester, managed a booth at FOSSY again, and gave another talk on XMPP servers.
Why Apply for the Board?
I am a major advocate for XMPP, and wish to see the community grow and thrive, while doing what I can to help out everywhere I can. Helping ease the burdens of the community by volunteering for the board is just one of those ways I can help.