Officially a member of the Jabber Software Foundation
I'm now officially a member of the Jabber Software Foundation, according to the member meeting minutes.
For one of my first acts, I'll be at EuroOSCON's Dot Org Day (some info posted on the DrupalCon website -- if you are an open source project with presence in Europe, please attend!) helping RalphM and stpeter man the booth there.
That was one of the reasons I wanted to be "official" -- I've already unofficially been promoting/evangelizing Jabber, but now I can say that I'm a member of the JSF.
I hope to get more involved as a member, working on everything from web presence, conference attendance, and general promotion of Jabber-the-community and XMPP-the-protocol.
Help keep our instant messaging and real time protocols open, free, and standards based -- Jabber is for people :P
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Much deserved recognition of
Much deserved recognition of you sharing the good word!
congrats
Awesome news. Now get an official presentation ready for next fosdem ;-)
BTW do you intend to come to Barcamp Brussels (same weekend as OSCON)too ?
I will be at Barcamp Brussels
That's the other post I need to make...
I'd like to have a sip of the Jabber Kool-Aid...
I'm intrigued, but still not sure about a use case. What's the elevator-pitch version of why I should be crazy for Jabber?
(Apologies for going just a little off-topic!)
Some hand waving and kool aid stirring
I wrote a while back that 2006 will be the year of XMPP. Well, IM companies keep getting funding and there's still lots of activity. Google keeps adding standards-based extensions, Livejournal released a jabber server and integration.
In a nutshell...Jabber goes way beyond IM. Other IM protocols are proprietary systems designed only to do IM. Hence the need for "bots" or other hooks into the system. Jabber is a real-time protocol that uses XML as it's base message format. RSS is an approximation of real time at best (is there something new? is there something new?) Jabber can push announcements, have different presence on the network (your home computer is on, your work computer is on, but your mobile phone is where your presence is).
So...lots of different pieces to it. I see it as the next super protocol, bridging the gap between static HTML pages, the polling nature of RSS, and the realtime needs of everything from presence/identity to mobile. Jabber is for people :P
Color me excited (if still a
Color me excited (if still a little baffled, but I'm working on that). And thanks!
Awesome News
Given that you have been slavering all over Jabber(XMPP) since the way back days I am happy to see all that volunteer sweat and effort is being rewarded.
Now you will get to put your hands into the machine. Watch your fingers!!
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congrats!
that's awesome dude. and, great call on the part of the JSF. hurray for more Bryght/JSF loverin.