User:Larma
About Me
I am contributing to and developing open-source software since 2011. Most of my work is related to the Android operating system. Examples of projects I significantly contributed to (and are not mentioned in the next section) include microG and OpenKeychain.
I graduated with a master in computer science and am a self-employed software engineer. My research and professional focus are in mobile privacy, IT security and fintech. I currently live in Berlin, Germany.
Me and XMPP
My first development activity around XMPP in 2012 was an open-source client for Android based on Smack. [1] It was a total mess and I discontinued work on it just a few months after publication. I also experimented with a system-wide XMPP service for Android in 2014, but it never became useful for anything. [2] In 2015, I participated in Google Summer of Code under the XSF to develop DNSSEC functionality for minidns. [3] While originally developed for the use in Smack, it is now also used in Conversations as well as many other projects.
Since 2016, I am one of the main developers of Dino. Since 2018 I (co-)mentor Google Summer of Code students for Dino. I regularly participate in development sprints and help advertise XMPP on conferences. I am happily contributing my opinion on the mailing list and in xsf@ MUC. I became a member of XSF in 2019. Since 2021, I serve on the XMPP Council.
My personal interest in XMPP is user-friendly and secure personal and team communication (chats and calls) - this excludes IoT / machine-to-machine communication. I am happy to contribute further to XEPs as well as Dino and other XMPP-related open source projects, to make this reality.
(Co-)authored XEPs
| XEP | Title |
|---|---|
| 0384 | OMEMO Encryption |
| 0421 | Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs |
| 0426 | Character counting in message bodies |
| 0428 | Fallback Indication |
| 0444 | Message Reactions |
| 0446 | File metadata element |
| 0447 | Stateless file sharing |
| 0448 | Encryption for stateless file sharing |
| 0449 | Stickers |
| 0461 | Message Replies |
| 0463 | MUC Affiliations Versioning |
| 0482 | Call Invites |
Meetups, Sprints and Conferences
Collection of Events where I participated to chat or work on XMPP things.
| When? | Where? | What? |
|---|---|---|
| January 2016 | Brussels, Belgium | FOSDEM 2016 |
| August 2018 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Sprint |
| December 2018 | Leipzig, Germany | 35th Chaos Communcation Congress |
| May 2019 | Karlsruhe, Germany | Sprint at 19th Gulaschprogrammiernacht |
| July 2019 | Lyon, France | Sprint |
| August 2019 | Bonn, Germany | FrOSCon 14 |
| August 2019 | Zehdenick, Germany | Chaos Communication Camp 2019 |
| September 2019 | Berlin, Germany | Meetup |
| September 2019 | Stockholm, Sweden | Sprint |
| October 2019 | Munich, Germany | Meetup during GSoC 2019 Mentor Summit |
| December 2019 | Leipzig, Germany | Sprint at 36th Chaos Communcation Congress |
| January 2020 | Brussels, Belgium | Summit 24 |
| February 2020 | Brussles, Belgium | FOSDEM 2020 |
| March 2020 | Duesseldorf, Germany | OMEMO Sprint |
| March 2020 | Sprint | |
| Since July 2022 (monthly) | Berlin, Germany | Meetup |
| August 2022 | Bonn, Germany | FrOSCon 17 |
| Feburary 2023 | Brussels, Belgium | Summit 25 |
| February 2023 | Brussles, Belgium | FOSDEM 2023 |
| June 2023 | Hamburg, Germany | Sprint |
Contact
- Full name: Marvin Wißfeld
- XMPP address: jabber at larma.de
- e-Mail address: xmpp at larma.de
- XSF discussion username: larma
- Mastodon: @larma@mastodon.social