[IAEP] Jabber Server

[John Watlington]

On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Gary C Martin wrote:

> 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...

I'm sorry.  Try schoolserver.media.mit.edu or schoolserver.laptop.org.
These have been running for a year.

> 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.

The design of future collaboration in Sugar is a mystery to me.
There have been no documents written.

wad