Arc Riley Application 2012

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Contact Information

  • jid: arcriley@gmail.com
  • email: arcriley@gmail.com

Background

I've been contributing to the free software community for the past 17 years.

Today I'm a officer and member in the Python Software Foundation and maintain several software projects working with Python and XMPP.

Contributions

  • Maintainer of several free software projects that work with XMPP, notably;
    • PySoy, a copyleft 3d game engine. The engine's included networking support is being based around XMPP for player chat and server discovering, Jingle UDP for network games.
    • Concordance, an in-development XMPP service framework for Python
  • Present to local software groups on XMPP

Ohloh summarizes my other contributes at http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/ArcRiley

Future Plans

  • Generalized XEP for game discovery and publishing through PEP
  • Implement and help polish XMPP over WebSockets
  • More work toward federated social web via XMPP

Why I want to renew my membership

I'm an advocate of XMPP and continue to keep my eye open for more ways to contribute to the community.