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==Personal stuff==
==Personal stuff==


* Real name: Nicolas Vérité
* Nickname: Nÿco
* Nickname: Nÿco
* Jabber ID: nyco@jabber.fr
* Jabber ID: xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr
* Blog: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
* Blog: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
* Microblogs: http://identi.ca/nyco and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
* Microblogs: http://identi.ca/nyco and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
* Location: Paris, France, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way
* Location: Paris, France, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way
* Role: XMPP/Jabber evangelist, I am no coder nor protocol designer
* Role: XMPP/Jabber evangelist (I am no coder nor protocol designer)
* Also: wikipedist and contributor/moderator at LinuxFR.org
* Also: wikipedist and contributor/moderator at LinuxFR.org
* '''XXth''' century-style contact: mailto:nicolas.verite on the Google's mail service (which happens to be also a Jabber service)
* '''XXth''' century-style contact: mailto:nicolas.verite on the Google's e-mail service (which happens to be also an XMPP service)
* '''XXIst''' century-style contact: xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr or xmpp:jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org?join
* '''21st''' century-style contact: xmpp:nyco@jabber.fr or xmpp:jabberfr@chat.jabberfr.org?join
* '''XSF member''' since my first application in July 2007


==History==
==History==
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===Code===
===Code===


* None. Sorry. I know only two languages: french and english.
* None. Sorry. I know only two languages: french and english. And well... a little bit of german. Ach gut.
* I sometimes report bugs and suggest features... that help '''other people code''' (better)
* I sometimes report bugs and suggest features... that help '''other people code''' (better)
* Does wiki code count for code?
* Does wiki code count for code?
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* I have contributed to: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
* I have contributed to: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
* I have contributed to the JabberFR Wiki: http://wiki.jabberfr.org
* I have contributed to the JabberFR Wiki: http://wiki.jabberfr.org
* I blog about Jabber/XMMP and the related areas at: http://nyco.wordpress.com/
* I blog about Jabber/XMPP and the related areas at: http://nyco.wordpress.com/ and http://nyconyco.jaiku.com/
* I write news and journals on: http://linuxfr.org
* I write news and journals on: http://linuxfr.org
* And I have made many tiny contributions of all forms
* And I have made several tiny contributions of all forms (but code)


===Talks and chats===
===Talks and chats===
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* March 2008, XMPP in general in Paris: [http://nyco.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/retour-de-conference/ blog post], [http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddf6gq8k_4ccpjrpcw Google Docs Slides], [http://www.slideshare.net/Nyco/xmpp-jabber-et-jingle-328439 SlideShare SlideCast], [http://infopatinage.free.fr/XMPP/XMPP-Jabber-Jingle-optimized.mp3 13 MB mp3 in english, just for you dear reader!]
* March 2008, XMPP in general in Paris: [http://nyco.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/retour-de-conference/ blog post], [http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddf6gq8k_4ccpjrpcw Google Docs Slides], [http://www.slideshare.net/Nyco/xmpp-jabber-et-jingle-328439 SlideShare SlideCast], [http://infopatinage.free.fr/XMPP/XMPP-Jabber-Jingle-optimized.mp3 13 MB mp3 in english, just for you dear reader!]
[http://www.slideshare.net/Nyco/slideshows All my slides] on SlideShare
[http://www.slideshare.net/Nyco/slideshows All my slides] on SlideShare
===Evangelization methods===
* Talk about XMPP, everywhere
* Demo
* Give talks, publish my slides
* Make people install a client and create an account
* Chat with them
* Invite them to chat rooms
* Transfer them files
* Invite them to chatrooms, so that they can fill their roster
* Talk about the many applications based on XMPP: presence, monitoring, alerts, PubSub, applications, bots, EAI, remote commands, collaborative editing, etc.
* Evanglize on open standards
* Hate the walled-gardens


===Plans for the future===
===Plans for the future===
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* Find the killer-app
* Find the killer-app
* Understand, document and share
* Understand, document and share
* Write for '''paper-magazines''', so that XMPP can take off also outside the immaterial world
* Revive [http://www.jabber.org/journal/ Jabber Journal]? (aouch, I've written it...)
* Secret sauce projects ;-)


==Why I like XMPP==
==Why I like XMPP==


Because, it's:
Because, it's:
* an open standard
* fun
* fun
* modern
* modern
* ubiquous
* rapidly-evolving
* rapidly-evolving
* an open standard
* got an open and open-minded community, can't believe it, even specs are free(speech)!
* got an open and open-minded community
* the federating IMP system
* the féderating IMP system


==Why I'm '''re'''-applying==
==Why I'm '''re'''-applying==


* Because it's cool to be a member
* Because it's cool to be a member
* Because it counts as a vote in XSF
* Because it counts as a vote in XSF, a proof of confidence, in a world where lobbying is more and more important
* Because I'm an active evangelist and I want to do more (even if it's not easy to contribute time)
* Because I'm an active evangelist and I want to do more (even if it's not easy to contribute time)
* Because you're taken more seriously when you propose talks if you're an XSF member
* Because you're taken more seriously when you give talks if you're an XSF member
* To stay in constant contact with XMPP technologies
* To stay in constant contact with XMPP technologies
* To follow their evolutions
* To follow their evolutions
==What else?==
* I don't know...