Florian Zeitz Application 2013

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• Name: Florian Zeitz
• Nick: Florob
• E-Mail: florob@babelmonkeys.de
• JID: florob@babelmonkeys.de
• Current Occupation: Student at the RWTH Aachen University (Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering)

XMPP Related Activities

• Running an XMPP-Server for myself and some friends (admittedly small deployment)
• Wrote some code for Gajim. Mostly PEP related, including support for User Nickname and User Location (receiving part)
• Working on objXMPP a (beta stage) Objective-C XMPP library
• Work on Prosody.
  • Implemented Ad-Hoc Command support
  • Implemented Service Administration (Ad-Hoc Admin Commands)
  • Implemented IPv6 support
  • Implemented websocket support
  • Working on a web-admin interface for Prosody (using Ad-Hoc and a PubSub dialect)
• Some (mostly unfinished) work on web applications
  • xmppchat A basic BOSH based MUC web-interface
  • adhocWeb A web client for executing Ad-Hoc commands
  • socialXMPP My test bed for implementing a web-interface to a XMPP based social network (discontinued for now)
• Annoying people by pointing out XMPP related bugs in their code
• At least trying to answer questions and be helpful in jdev@conference.jabber.org

Why I am applying

I have long been a fan of open distributed systems. I think it is very important that everybody can use a service they can trust and can rely on. I personally think the best way to ensure that is using your own server or one administered by a friend. XMPP fits this bill very well for IM and that is the original reason I got involved with the XMPP community. I have since found it very exciting to see technology grow and working with the XSF exchanging views on how protocol extensions should work on e.g. the standards@ ML. I've also been participating in discussion within the XMPP WG and various related WGs.