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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://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0237.html one XEP], although I've been involved to greater or lesser degrees with rather more than that.
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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