kde-telepathy features for usage in KDE Plasma Educational Desktop GSoC

[George Kiagiadakis]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli
<daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 06/01/2011 03:11 AM, David Edmundson wrote:
>> 3) The student machines must be able to authenticate with the teacher
>> machines!(Does kde-teleapthy  provide some way for doing this? apart
>> from each student using poplar IM services like Google Talk....)
>>
>> Use a popular IM service like Google Talk :-)
>
>
> I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but you can install an xmpp server
> on teacher's machine and let all the student's machines connect to that
> server. That's also probably a good idea if you have a classroom,
> because all xmpp traffic will be in the local lan and therefore you'll
> get less latency.
>

If you are on a LAN you can also use the link-local xmpp protocol that
discovers nodes automatically on the lan and they all communicate with
each other with xmpp without the need of a server.