From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 04 15:33:42 2003
From: Till Gerken <till () tantalo ! net>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:33:42 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: KDE Jabber Server
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Hello,

this is a repost of a mail I originally sent to kde-devel@kde.org. Martijn=
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pointed out to me that this list might be more appropriate. Sorry for the=20
noise.

Anyway, here goes:

Quite a while ago while googling around, I stumbled across a log of a=20
conversation of (seemingly) people close to the Jabber project, I believe i=
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was a council meeting. They were talking about ways to promote Jabber, one =
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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 n=
ot,=20
I think a Jabber server for the KDE project would be a fantastic addition,=
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especially if this would be made in such a way that everybody's @kde.org ma=
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addresses would match their Jabber IDs.

Jabber can be used for instant messaging, news broadcasting (headline ticke=
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etc., so you could get your dot.kde.org headlines in time to your IM=20
program!), file transfer and many more things. It believe it would not only=
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improve communication between developers but also between users and=20
developers.

My thought right now is to restrict the Jabber server to those having CVS=20
write access, be it translators, developers and so on.

I don't know what kind of infrastructure is behind sysadmin@kde.org, so I=20
don't know who should run the server or how it should be run. I'm quite sur=
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that if we'd ask, the Jabber folks themselves would host a server for us or=
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community members would be able to sponsor equipment and service. (Bart and=
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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=
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blog entry at kdedevelopers (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/180), b=
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I felt that a discussion on a mailing list might be more appropriate.

Till

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