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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. | 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 | == 2017/2018 (from [[Guus der Kinderen Application 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. | 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!) | 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!) | ||
== 2017/2018 (from [[Guus der Kinderen Application 2019|the 2019 Q2 application]]) == | |||
I've been able to re-iterate many of the personal highlights of previous years: I enjoyed participating in Board, organizing and joining [[Summit 23]] and [[FOSDEM 2019]], and was particularly happy to detect uptake in activity in the XMPP community. | |||
My focus for the immediate future is to spend effort to try and improve the ecosystem around XMPP: although there are many great XMPP projects, many of these are limited to the time and attention that can be given to them by volunteers, even though there often is a desire to grow beyond that. I'd love to see if we can improve here, and help those projects that are interested in growing. My rationale here is two-fold: for one, I'd love to see people be able to make a living from what they love doing, and second, having more of an economy around XMPP will boost its development and adoption. | |||
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