Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-06 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 PM, drew einhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers, because there will be communities organized by: age groups language xo activity

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-06 Thread Kent Loobey
On Sunday 06 January 2008 12:46:42 Edward Cherlin wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 PM, drew einhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I think we need a Social Networking Web site specifically for the children, protected from adults who might want to interfere or exploit children. And a site for

Re: server-to-server communication (was: A jabber hosting offer)

2008-01-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 at 22:01:03 -0700, drew einhorn wrote: If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers The underlying protocol of the server-based collaboration is XMPP. In XMPP, you never need to connect to

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-06 Thread Morgan Collett
Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote: Do I simply use the sugar-control-panel -s jabber j1.olpc.stonekeep.com or the like to point the XO's to my server? And they'll come up as active / neighborhood users? Yes. (If not, the jabber server's probably not configured correctly.) Regards Morgan

A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread Dave Belfer-Shevett
I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it, enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the load of all these machines

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread Dave Belfer-Shevett
Walter Bender wrote: While we have ideas about how to scale up the jabber interface, it has also always been the idea that local communities (schools, neighborhoods), communities of interest (book clubs, chess clubs) etc., would run their own servers. The more the merrier at this stage. We

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread Walter Bender
While we have ideas about how to scale up the jabber interface, it has also always been the idea that local communities (schools, neighborhoods), communities of interest (book clubs, chess clubs) etc., would run their own servers. The more the merrier at this stage. We probably need a better forum

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote: I've just received my, er, my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it, enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits. I've heard that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the

Re: A jabber hosting offer...

2008-01-05 Thread drew einhorn
If we are going to have small local communities instead of one big one, the we need to be able to contact multiple jabber servers, because there will be communities organized by: age groups language xo activity geographic region curriculum topic and many more the chances that