KDE Jabber Server

[Benjamin Meyer]

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On Thursday 04 September 2003 11:33 am, Till Gerken wrote:
> 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

Probably the best part about it would be that (mostly) everyone would then 
take a closer look at kopete and as a byproduct making it better for 3.2.  Oh 
yah and the communication part is good too :-D

- -Benjamin Meyer

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