Difference between revisions of "Daniel Brötzmann Application 2021"

I'm a PhD student at University of Oldenburg. My research topics include Dragonflies and their habitat use, sphagnum farming, and landscape fragmentation. This has nothing to do with XMPP, but it's what I do. I have studied Environmental Sciences and Landscape Ecology, and I've always been a computer enthusiast. For my bachelor's thesis, I had the opportunity to combine both topics. I developed an Android App which helps users to determine certain insects species. So much about my background.

Five years ago, I heard of XMPP for the first time. In search of an alternative solution for proprietary chat apps, I found XMPP and started to look at various clients. Gajim cought my interest, because it's available on both Linux and Windows, thus enabling most of my friends to use it on their computers. I started helping the project by contributing translations, small fixes, and by taking care of Gajim's issue tracker. Being written in Python, it promised an easy entry into client development, which it was. Thanks to patient and helpful maintainers, I was able to learn many things from this project (git, python, and much more). Two years ago, I took over [https://gajjim.org gajim.org] and rebuilt it using Hugo. This was also the starting point for Gajim's [https://gajim.org//tags/development/ Development News], which I write every month. My goal was to attract more contributors, which hasn't been very fruitful so far. Trying to raise the attention for XMPP projects, I joined emus (Edward Maurer) in writing the monthly XMPP newsletter.