Difference between revisions of "Kevin Smith for Council 2006"

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.  

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.

I've been contributing to the [http://psi-im.org Psi Client] for several years, and, subsequent to Justin Karnege's abdication in Autumn 2004, have been `project leader'. My long-term involvement in one of the longest-running clients, has given me insight into many of the issues surrounding XMPP/Jabber with the result that I believe I have things I can bring to the protocol, through council.

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.