[IAEP] Jabber Server

[Gary C Martin]

On 2 Oct 2008, at 05:06, David Farning wrote:

> I had several conversation last weekend about how to help foster  
> small deployments.   The overarching theme was that communities need  
> a mechanism to communicate and collaborate while they learn about  
> this 'Sugar stuff'.
>
> After much thought about web2.0 and social medial tools, I finally  
> got back to--why don't we use the collaborative tools in sugar to  
> help groups learn about Sugar.
>
> Would it be feasible for Sugar Labs to set up jabber servers so that  
> individual deployments have a zero cost mechanism to collaborate  
> among themselves.  If I remember, this was an issue that Bill Kerr  
> faced in his lab.

Oh yes, please!!! That goes for the community of Sugar testers too,  
it's been an absolute <insert your favourite noun profanity> trying to  
find working jabberd servers to smoke test activity sharing et al. And  
my goodness do we need more testing there...

The argument seems to be it has been too buggy to date. Are we there  
yet? It's hard to tell from outside of the 1CC mother ship. I know  
Morgan's done some great work with Chat. It's been solid in all the  
tests I've tried (tested max 4-5 in a session). Current Write  
collaboration (tested max 3 in a session) is also reasonable with just  
the occasional drop out or screen redraw glitch (probably best to  
avoid pasting image though).

If we're working regularly in the collaborative Sugar environment, it  
is going drive clearer thought on the solutions needed.

--Gary

P.S. I'm guessing Gadget, and maybe also Cerebro, will be the two  
milestones needed to be passed before this becomes a reality, dates  
for both seem fairly vague still though I think Gadget may be getting  
closer.