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JSF Dis-Membership...

I seem to be in the unfortunate position to be on the list of people up for renewal in the current JSF election round, but due to a mailserver rebuild/crash I lost alot of mail and didn't become aware of this untill it was too late.

Unfortunately I've also not been as active as a JSF member, or in the general Jabber community as much as I initially hoped, all the Jabber related code I was hoping to do at ${PLACE_OF_WORK} kinda got thrown out the window with other other projects getting in the way, which somewhat sucks as I was looking forward to it.

So it would seem my tenure with the JSF is about to come to an end, unless I reapply again in the future. However, I'm still not entirely sure what the point of the JSF really is, besides promoting Jabber/XMPP, furthering standards and specifications, and working on the code associated with them, what actually is there? The members list prooved to be an incredibly quiet list, whilst every other list was more a small forrestry reserve. I also never actually managed to make it to a JSF meeting in the chatrooms due to timezone differences and/or other "real world" commitments.

Leaving the JSF won't stop me ranting incessantly to people about Jabber and XMPP, nor will it revert me back to a MSN or ICQ client user, so was JSF membership mearly a status symbol? A badge to be worn as one might membership to the New Zealand Open Source Societry or the Association of Shareware Professionals? Part of me sees it like that, an intangible badge to be worn to show ones devotion, or allegiance, and yet - it's soo much more than that.

It's been a good ride, but I'm glad I still have season tickets to the show...

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