Cool idea. I would hang out if other people did. +1 to using protocols other than email for ephemeral discussions such as these :)
--Richard On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed Oct 26 17:30:04 2011, John C Klensin wrote: >> As others have pointed out, that doesn't solve the "water >> cooler" problem. It would probably require some rethinking of >> how we handle BOFs, WG creation, and other tasks. > > Creating a virtual water cooler is possible - XMPP chatrooms do provide this > pretty well - but there's a cultural shift required that requires effort to > put into place. > > I think we could probably get this going to some degree if we [for any value > of we] simply stated that we'd hang about in the relevent chatrooms. For me > (being a woolly apps kind of guy) that'd presumably be > [email protected] and [email protected] - I note there's even > people in the latter. > > Any reasonable XMPP client will include support for automatically joining > chatrooms. For anyone here interested, it's "Bookmarks" - XEP-0048, typically > stored in XEP-0049, for which you'll need server-side support - GTalk won't > quite cut it, I'm afraid. > > These things need a critical mass - a solid group of regulars in the chatroom > who're willing to basically hang around and chat - but it's possible, and - I > think - worthwhile whatever we do. So I've just bookmarked said rooms with > auto-join to see what happens. > > Dave. > -- > Dave Cridland - mailto:[email protected] - xmpp:[email protected] > - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ > - http://dave.cridland.net/ > Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
