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= XSF Membership Applications = | = XSF Membership Applications = | ||
* [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2018]] | |||
* [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2017]] | * [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2017]] | ||
* [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2016]] | * [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2016]] | ||
= XSF Membership Applications = | |||
* [[Guus der Kinderen for Board 2018]] | |||
* [[Guus der Kinderen for Board 2017]] | |||
= Contributions to the XMPP community = | |||
== Pre-2016 (from [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2016|the 2016 Q2 application]]) == | |||
I got introduced to XMPP in the early 2000s, when I was working on my thesis. That thesis later evolved into [https://www.nimbuzz.com Nimbuzz], where I was employed for a number of years. | |||
We based Nimbuzz on [https://igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire Openfire], a project that I continued to support in my spare time after I left the company. After Jive Software slowly but surely pulled out, I became the de facto project lead for Openfire. Although somewhat hard to combine with my daytime jobs at the time (didn't have a remote connection to XMPP), I helped keep the project and the broader [http://www.igniterealtime.org Ignite Realtime community] afloat until dwd stepped up. | |||
Last year, I leaped and/or plunged, quitting my job and starting a business of my own. Now that I'm self-employed, I find myself more and more involved in projects that relate to XMPP (Yey). As a result, the amount of time that I spend on XMPP-related activities has increased a lot. Being more active as ever, and having to owe part of my paycheck to XMPP, I thought it to be good and contribute back to the community, starting by signing up as an XSF member (okay, I ''started'' by fixing a link on the [https://xmpp.org xmpp.org] website, but this is the next best thing, right?) | |||
== 2016/2017 (from [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2017|the 2017 Q2 application]]) == | |||
In my first year of XSF membership, I've tried to contribute to the XSF by maintaining the [https://www.xmpp.org xmpp.org website], by producing bugfixes and chasing down issues on the issue list. I participated in [[web/Summit_21|Summit 21]] and helped man the XSF booth at [[web/FOSDEM_2017|FOSDEM 2017]], which I enjoyed a lot. | |||
I've been helping out preparing for the the XSF participation in Google's [[web/Summer_of_Code_2017|Summer of Code 2017]], and serve as a mentor of one of this year's students. Finally, I've been made a member of the iteam only days before the re-application period ended. | |||
Outside of the XSF, I've been contributing to XMPP as a member of the [http://www.igniterealtime.org/%7CIgnite Realtime community]. For Ignite, apart for my continued work on Openfire and other project, I was involved in revitalizing <sup>[[#cite_note-1|[1]]][[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup> the [http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/ Spark client project] and creating a legal entity for that community<sup>[[#cite_note-3|[3]]]</sup>, serving as the Chair of the board for the Ignite Realtime Foundation. Other than that, I continue to be a regular contributor to various XMPP-related software projects, most of which are available via my Github profile. | |||
== 2017/2018 (the '''2018 Q2 application''') == | |||
Last year, I've been happily continuing the work that I had been doing. This year did have some highlights: As promised in the year before, in 2017, I've helped out organizing [[Summit 22]] and the XSF presence at [[FOSDEM 2018]]. To facilitate that, I've started and joined the [[XSF Summits Conferences And Meetups workgroup|Summits, Conferences & Meetups Work Team]]. Also, mentoring in the Google Summer of Code 2017 edition allowed me to travel to Google's Mentor Summit, where I was able to meet up with a bunch of community members, and a lot of others. That was great! Finally, by the end of 2017, I ran for board, and was voted in. I currently serve in the Board of Directors of the XSF. | |||
Apart from my involvement with the XSF directly, my other XMPP-related endeavors continue. On the one hand, I'm still very active in the Ignite Realtime community as an open source contributor, while at the same time, I continue to work on proprietary, XMPP-based, solutions as my daytime job (a good deal of the work that I'm doing there, being contributed back upstream, to the open source projects!) | |||
==== References ==== | |||
# [[#cite_ref-1|↑]] wroot, [https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/08/25/spark-280-released "Spark 2.8.0 Released"], ''Ignite Realtime Blog'', Aug 25, 2016 | |||
# [[#cite_ref-2|↑]] Guus der Kinderen, [https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2017/02/20/request-for-comments-mavenizing-spark "Request for Comments: Mavenizing Spark"], ''Ignite Realtime Blog'', Feb 20, 2017 | |||
# [[#cite_ref-3|↑]] Guus der Kinderen, [https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/10/21/starting-the-ignite-realtime-foundation "Starting the Ignite Realtime Foundation"], ''Ignite Realtime Blog'', Oct 21, 2016 | |||