<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM, John Watlington <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> 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 <a href="http://schoolserver.media.mit.edu" target="_blank">schoolserver.media.mit.edu</a> or <a href="http://schoolserver.laptop.org" target="_blank">schoolserver.laptop.org</a>. > These have been running for a year. Is <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers</a> usable? That is, does anybody keep the information up-to-date? Can we do something to fold in the information at <a href="http://xochat.org" target="_blank">xochat.org</a>? Could a daemon maintain this page? server name      community       comments <a href="http://jabber.laptop.org" target="_blank">jabber.laptop.org</a>       all     Jabber server for OLPC <a href="http://chi.il.us.xochat.org" target="_blank">chi.il.us.xochat.org</a>    Chicago, IL (any) <a href="http://jabber.buddycloud.com" target="_blank">jabber.buddycloud.com</a>   Open to all     Jabber server including location based API (<a href="http://blog.buddycloud.com/node/1" target="_blank">http://blog.buddycloud.com/node/1</a>) <a href="http://jabber.olpchacks.org" target="_blank">jabber.olpchacks.org</a>    Chicago, IL (any)       OLPC Chicago Jabber Server <a href="http://jabber.xo-quebec.org" target="_blank">jabber.xo-quebec.org</a>    Montreal, Qc (any)      Québec Area Jabber Server(fr) <a href="http://potter-pod.no-ip.biz" target="_blank">potter-pod.no-ip.biz</a>    Richmond, VA. (any) <a href="http://schoolserver.media.mit.edu" target="_blank">schoolserver.media.mit.edu</a>      developers      Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers <a href="http://xo1share.org" target="_blank">xo1share.org</a>    G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region.   <a href="mailto:xo1@scishare.com">xo1@scishare.com</a> (Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan) Status: <a href="http://xoshare.org/mixochat.org" target="_blank">http://xoshare.org/mi xochat.org</a>      G1G1 (any)      See <a href="http://xochat.org" target="_blank">xochat.org</a> Community Server for more info and regional jabber servers. -- </blockquote></div>Yes it is very usable and thanks for doing it.  It helps a lot to have a page to point people towards. thanks david