[IAEP] Jabber Server

[David Farning]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Is http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers usable? That is,
> does anybody keep the information up-to-date? Can we do something to
> fold in the information at xochat.org? Could a daemon maintain this
> page?
>
> server name      community       comments
> jabber.laptop.org       all     Jabber server for OLPC
> chi.il.us.xochat.org    Chicago, IL (any)
> jabber.buddycloud.com   Open to all     Jabber server including location
> based API (http://blog.buddycloud.com/node/1)
> jabber.olpchacks.org    Chicago, IL (any)       OLPC Chicago Jabber Server
> jabber.xo-quebec.org    Montreal, Qc (any)      Québec Area Jabber
> Server(fr)
> potter-pod.no-ip.biz    Richmond, VA. (any)
> schoolserver.media.mit.edu      developers      Jabber server for
> OLPC/Sugar developers
> xo1share.org    G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region.   xo1 at scishare.com
> (Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan) Status: http://xoshare.org/mi
> xochat.org <http://xoshare.org/mixochat.org>      G1G1 (any)      See
> xochat.org Community Server for more info
> and regional jabber servers.
> --
>
Yes it is very usable and thanks for doing it.  It helps a lot to have a
page to point people towards.

thanks
david
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