[Kde-pim] Integrate an open social network into KDE SC

[Boris shtrasman]

2011/12/11 Niels Ole Salscheider <niels_ole at salscheider-online.de>

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>
>   The reason why it should use XMPP
> is that there are already many mail providers offering XMPP based chat
> services
> and I bet that these providers would like to offer social network
> extensions,
> too, if there was an easy way. Each provider alone does not have a big
> market
> share; but considering that about half of my friends that are not open
> source
> related use an email provider that offers XMPP (GMX, web.de, 1&1, Google
> Mail,
> ...), the complete network could have enough members to gain momentum.
>
> Of course, this will not happen if we do not work together with other
> projects: We need to get together with the OneSocialWeb team so that they
> finish their XEPs (maybe even help them and make suggestions how to
> improve the
> drafts). We also need the important XMPP servers (ejabberd, ...) to
> support it
> and to find a project that wants to improve the web interface OSW started
> to
> implement. Meanwhile we should implement the draft in KDE SC, too (this
> might
> actually be an unique selling point for both, KDE SC (5) and XMPP/OSW).
>
> I know there might be reservation to put effort into such a project until
> the
> standards are finished and there are enough users. But if we do not show
> commitment and work simultaneously on this, each project will just wait for
> the others to take a step and nothing will ever happen.
> I cannot promise that this will work out but I think that it is our only
> chance to build a real alternative to the closed social networks. And I am
> confident that we could win quite an amount of users, at least in the open
> source community and from the mail providers already offering XMPP.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ole
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bringing another point of view -

from the telecom world  - I could say that XMPP is one of the most used
full IM supported protocols,
yes we have SIP but from what I have seen there are more SIP + XMPP
providers then SIP + SIMPLE.
the same is for clients (hardware and software).
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