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==Who Am I?== | ==Who Am I?== | ||
I'm Dave Cridland. I've been working in, on, around, and with Internet Messaging technologies of various sorts since 1993, a year worryingly close to the birth of some of the prominent members of our community. I'm "XMPP Team Lead" at [http://www.isode.com/ Isode Ltd], a company which does not only XMPP, but also LDAP, IMAP, SMTP, X.400 and X.500. | I'm Dave Cridland. I've been working in, on, around, and with Internet Messaging technologies of various sorts since 1993, a year worryingly close to the birth of some of the prominent members of our community. I'm "XMPP Team Lead" at [http://www.isode.com/ Isode Ltd], a company which does not only XMPP, but also LDAP, IMAP, SMTP, X.400 and X.500. | ||
My name is on [http://www.arkko.com/tools/allstats/davecridland.html 5 RFCs] (and two drafts), and [http:// | My name is on [http://www.arkko.com/tools/allstats/davecridland.html 5 RFCs] (and two drafts), and [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0237.html one XEP], although I've been involved to greater or lesser degrees with rather more than that. | ||
I've served on the XMPP Council now for two years. I'd like you to make that three. | I've served on the XMPP Council now for two years. I'd like you to make that three. | ||
==XMPP Council== | ==XMPP Council== | ||
===What's it for?=== | ===What's it for?=== | ||
The XMPP Council is meant to do two things. First, we're meant to be the technical leadership of the XSF, and secondly we get to have meetings - albeit remote ones, and therefore lacking in tea and biscuits - where we approve, and in some cases veto, various XEPs and changes to them. | The XMPP Council is meant to do two things. First, we're meant to be the technical leadership of the XSF, and secondly we get to have meetings - albeit remote ones, and therefore lacking in tea and biscuits - where we approve, and in some cases veto, various XEPs and changes to them. | ||
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===Who should be on the Council?=== | ===Who should be on the Council?=== | ||
I think we need a constant flow of new blood onto the Council, to avoid the collective lethargy I describe above, and bring new, fresh, insight into the problems the Council faces. | I think we need a constant flow of new blood onto the Council, to avoid the collective lethargy I describe above, and bring new, fresh, insight into the problems the Council faces. | ||
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===So how does that leave me?=== | ===So how does that leave me?=== | ||
I'm obviously not new blood - but after consideration, I decided that on balance, I'll stand again. You can take it from this that I, at least, feel that I'm worth having on the Council. | I'm obviously not new blood - but after consideration, I decided that on balance, I'll stand again. You can take it from this that I, at least, feel that I'm worth having on the Council. | ||
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I try to encourage participation in a number of ways: | I try to encourage participation in a number of ways: | ||
* I hang about in jdev from time to time, and discuss various things that come up. Similarly, I try to pull people in from identi.ca et al, probably with less success. | * I hang about in jdev from time to time, and discuss various things that come up. Similarly, I try to pull people in from identi.ca et al, probably with less success. | ||
* I encourage people to turn up to Council meetings, post on the mailing list, and suchlike. The increased attendance has, in my opinion, been a real blessing. | * I encourage people to turn up to Council meetings, post on the mailing list, and suchlike. The increased attendance has, in my opinion, been a real blessing. | ||
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==In Summary== | ==In Summary== | ||
* I am Dave. | * I am Dave. | ||
* Vote to retain me on the Council. | * Vote to retain me on the Council. | ||
* But think seriously about who you're voting for. | * But think seriously about who you're voting for. |
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