Nicolas Vérité for Board 2017

I am a candidate for the Board of Directors.

I have been once long ago, and once more in 2017.

• Full name: Nicolas Vérité
• Jabber ID: nyco at movim dot eu
• E-mail address: first name dot family name at the google's email service
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/nyconyco
• GitHub: https://github.com/Nyco
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasverite/

Past

• XSF commTeam
• XMPP Roundup
• XSF Board of Directors
• XSF SCAM
• JabberFr.org
• Meetups (Paris, Krakow)
• Booths at events (Solutions Linux, POSS - Paris Open Source Summit)
• ejabberd (ProcessOne)
• Libon, lifeisbetteron (Orange)
• MongooseIM (Erlang Solutions)

Motivations

• we are very good at specifications, but only by developers for developers, we don't ask enough our users <= WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE EFFORT
• we are a standards organisation, which means no/few innovation, more focus on standardisation of what exists <= WE HAVE TO FIND GOOD/BEST PRACTICES TO STANDARDISE
• we should accelerate the standardisation of good and best practices already available on the market, both in terms of specs and implems <= PUSH FOR IMPLEMENS OF NEW XEPs, COLLECT FEEDBACK
• we should be walking much much into territories we just don't occupy:
  • communication and marketing: we should all contribute to finding and spreading the news all over the places <= SOME COORDINATED EFFORT TO PRODUCE, WE'LL ALL GAIN FROM THIS
  • UX: we should care more on modernising the terrible UX that we suffer, as a consequence our image is hideous <= PUBLIC FACING SOFTWARE PROJECTS NEED NEW BLOOD
  • business cases: we should target a more broader range of people, such as decision makers and executives, CIOs, CTOs, etc. <= SOME COORDINATED EFFORT TO PRODUCE, WE'LL ALL GAIN FROM THIS