introducing myself

[meinhard benn]

hello speeqers,

a few weeks ago i was looking around for a suitable framework to start
a plugin-less web chat hosting service for individuals, small
companies and ngos that /does not suck/, with a free/premium/no-ads
business model. i have been collecting dozens of ideas about this over
the last year or so and want to start working on it full-time from
early next year on.

when researching http streaming i found bosh and speeqe, which i
instantly liked. not only the technology behind it, but mainly the
fresh style of how the project is run and what it looks like. it suits
the agile, prag-prog, small-is-beautiful philosophy that i am fond of
since a few years (even without knowing, hehe). so i decided to use
speeqe for project x and to actively contribute to the development as
much as i can.

until i have more time in my hands for this my contributions will be
mostly bug reporting and usability/feature brainstorm. from january on
i hope to get my hands on some lines of code. that's the plan so far,
subject to change of course.

my first contribution was this: http://code.stanziq.com/speeqe/ticket/41
:)

i submitted some usability issues about a month ago using the [report
problem] feature in speeqe, but i never anything back from it. where
did the notes go?

i wrote a chat server for a flash-based live support client from
scratch in python about 5 years ago and poked around the code of a
java-based group chat a few years before that. so i have some
experience in the field.

i am a web monkey since 1995 and co-founder of http://ecobytes.net/ -
a small not-for-profit hosting project for people (usually friends)
related to green things or social change - and i can see a demand for
our users to meet online from time to time. usually they go for
proprietary solutions like skype rooms and the like with all the lock-
in issues that come with that.

when one of our servers made a boo-boo some days ago and we had to
completely reinstall it remotely from backups i did not hesitate to
use meinhard.speeqe.com to invite our gurus to link their brains in
real-time to get our broken box back up as soon as possible. and it
worked well! "polecat" was back up within a few hours, with help from
vancouver, lisbon and belgrade.

some personal notes about my ramblings around europe can be found here
at http://benn.org/

cheers, meinhard.

ps: i am only using this gmail account if i really have to. please
email me to my benn.org address

[Nathan Zorn]

Meinhard,

Sorry for the late response. I have a bad habit of skipping over the
dev mailing list because it mostly contains source code commits.
It is awesome to hear that you like speeqe! All help is much
appreciated! I have looked at a few of your tickets and some of them
have been fixed and put on the website.

The speeqe problem notes go to the regular list, but they are
moderated. If there isn't any useful information, they are usually
removed. The reporting system needs work as it has issues keeping
track of the debugging information. Once this is fixed we can
probably approve all problem reports.


It is great to hear your experiences with speeqe and thanks for
introducing yourself! Your tickets have been helpful and I look
forward to your future contributions.

> athttp://benn.org/

[Nathan Zorn]

Oh, forgot to mention that you should probably join the speeqe
mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/speeqe/.

On Nov 22, 4:54 pm, meinhard benn <muf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> athttp://benn.org/