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==History==
==History==
I've been involved with Jabber through Psi since 2002, joining the JSF members sometime later.  
I've been involved with Jabber through Psi since 2002, joining the JSF members sometime later, I've been the project leader for Psi since 2004, and in 2006 participated in the Summer of Code program.  


==JEP Involvements==
==JEP Involvements==
My involvement in JEP creation has been limited; I started off the PEP movement I believe (which I want to see through) but I can claim no credit for the work of writing the JEP (thanks Peter etc.) I'm also sitting on a metacontacts JEP which I need to get fleshed out and pushed into the system. Even as a (hopeful) JSF council member I do not intend to author a proliferation of JEPs; there are some core issues I would like to see solved well, but I don't think producing a large number of extensions would be necessarily desirable.
My involvement with JEP creation has mostly been purely through discussion on the standards-jig and interests lists (such as the jingle and whiteboarding lists), although I'm author of a metacontacts JEP which is pending submission. My largest impact on JEPs has probably been through my long discussions with PSA which brought about SPPS, which later became PEP; my desire for the PEP protocol came from being on the front-line through being the current leader of the Psi project, seeing what the users of XMPP clients were crying for and seeing a need in protocol to back up the features they wanted.


==Software Involvements==
==Software Involvements==
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==Suitability==
==Suitability==
I believe that my experience with XMPP/Jabber on Psi and on standards-jig, coupled with my Computer Science education at degree level, distributed system experience for my degree project and research/problem solving skills from my PhD would serve me well as a council member.
I believe that my experience with XMPP/Jabber on Psi and on standards-jig, coupled with my Computer Science education at degree level, distributed system experience for my degree project and research/problem solving skills from my PhD would serve me well as a council member. From my experience with the requests and issues of users of XMPP through Psi and similar experience from the code side as well as my desires to use XMPP for more than `just IM' (I had a system set up at work for notifying me over XMPP when experimental runs had finished etc) I'm in a reasonable position to represent the interests of several groups.


==Intentions==
==Intentions==
The key areas that I think need addressing over the next 12 months (and beyond) are
The key areas that I think need addressing over the next 12 months (and beyond) are
* PEP - I'd like to see this come into widespread use.
* PEP - I'd like to see this come into widespread use, although PSA and others have already done sterling work getting this going, and by the time new council is voted in it's likely to be mostly a `done deal'
* Reliability - This is an area I think we (urgently) need to address.
* Reliability - This is an area I think we (urgently) need to address and somewhere we lag behind other protocols; that messages can currently disappear into the black hole of the internet is something I'd like to work hard on preventing. I'm also keen to keep a seperation between reliability and accountability (providing reliability always and accountability where required); reliability means that your messages will reach their destination, accountability that you know when the other user has recieved them.
* Getting usable e2e encryption into public use.
* Getting usable e2e encryption into public use (this seems to be a common theme among council applicants, so something should be achievable in the next cycle).


==Motivation==
==Motivation==
I'd like to join the council this year because I'd like to see xmpp's strong position grow stronger and I think I have experience and ideas to help assist the other council members in this.
I'd like to join the council this year because I'd like to see XMPP's strong position grow stronger and I believe I have experience and ideas to help assist the other council members in this.  
 


==Kevin Smith==
==Kevin Smith==
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==Contact==
==Contact==
XMPP:
kevdadrum@jabber.ex.ac.uk
kevdadrum@jabber.ex.ac.uk


I would rather not be contacted by email (else why would I be doing this?), but if necessary can be reached at kismith@psi-im.org
If necessary I can be reached at mailto:kismith@psi-im.org but who'd use email over Jabber? ;)


==External CV==
==External CV==
For those interested, a somewhat full, although incomplete, CV is available at [[http://kismith.co.uk/cv.php]].
For those interested, a somewhat fuller, although incomplete, CV is available at [[http://kismith.co.uk/cv.php]].

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