Jack Moffitt is a hacker and entrepreneur based in Albuquerque, New<br/>Mexico. He has founded several startups built on XMPP technology including<br/>Chesspark, a real-time, multi-user gaming platform, and Collecta, a<br/>real-time search engine for the Web. He has started and contributed to<br/>numerous XMPP related open source and free software projects including the<br/>Strophe XMPP client libraries, the Punjab XMPP connection manager, the<br/>Palaver multi-user chat component, the Speeqe group chat application. He<br/>also has served several terms on both the XSF Board of Directors and the<br/>XSF Council. Previous to his XMPP work, he created the Icecast streaming media server, managed<br/>the Ogg, Vorbis, and Theora codec projects, and co-founded the Xiph.org Foundation, a standards<br/>organization for royalty-free multimedia technologies for the Internet. He is passionate about free<br/>software and open source, open standards, and Internet technology. His favorite programming languages<br/>include JavaScript, Erlang, and Python. You can find him at <a href="http://metajack.im,">http://metajack.im,</a> blogging<br/>about start-ups and code, as @metajack on Twitter and Identica, or often spreading the word of<br/>XMPP at technology conferences.