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 going out.
I have machinery and bandwidth available for setting up a dedicated, fairly powerful machine specifically to run Jabber for the OLPC community. I have no problems building, configuring, installing, and maintaining the machine in a colo facility in Bedford, MA. I'll donate the hardware and time to make it work, if it'll benefit the project. I'm looking at a dual-Xeon 2.8 gig Ubuntu Gutsy box (1U) with a pair of mirrored drives. The facility has multiple peered connections (it supports a series of VOIP servers), and is well managed. I have experience running jabber servers, and sysadminning. Would this be of benefit to the community? Please let me know. I can be reached on jabber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is fine too. I'm also (obviously) on the devel list :) Thanks. I do want to contribute to the project in any way I can... -dbs _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel