KDE Jabber Server

[Till Gerken]

Hello,

this is a repost of a mail I originally sent to kde-devel at kde.org. Martijn 
pointed out to me that this list might be more appropriate. Sorry for the 
noise.

Anyway, here goes:

Quite a while ago while googling around, I stumbled across a log of a 
conversation of (seemingly) people close to the Jabber project, I believe it 
was a council meeting. They were talking about ways to promote Jabber, one of 
it was to sponsor a Jabber server for the KDE project.

I've been thinking about this over and over again and Jabber sponsored or not, 
I think a Jabber server for the KDE project would be a fantastic addition, 
especially if this would be made in such a way that everybody's @kde.org mail 
addresses would match their Jabber IDs.

Jabber can be used for instant messaging, news broadcasting (headline ticker 
etc., so you could get your dot.kde.org headlines in time to your IM 
program!), file transfer and many more things. It believe it would not only 
improve communication between developers but also between users and 
developers.

My thought right now is to restrict the Jabber server to those having CVS 
write access, be it translators, developers and so on.

I don't know what kind of infrastructure is behind sysadmin at kde.org, so I 
don't know who should run the server or how it should be run. I'm quite sure 
that if we'd ask, the Jabber folks themselves would host a server for us or 
community members would be able to sponsor equipment and service. (Bart and 
Ian in #kopete were eager to help out)

I'm not sure if this was the right list to post to, I originally created a 
blog entry at kdedevelopers (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/180), but 
I felt that a discussion on a mailing list might be more appropriate.

Till
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