Hi,
I'm in my last but one year at the University of Ghent in Belgium (http://www.rug.ac.be) where I'm attending my Diploma of the Second Cycle (licentiaat) in Computer Science. For my last year, I have to work on my thesis. We can choose from subject that our university presents to us or we can choose a subject of our own (but we have to do this before next week :( ). Because I'm very attracted to Jabber and XML I would like to do something with it. I personally thought of a news report system through Jabber. For example, there are a lot of newsgroups now, only available through a browser. Sometimes you would like to follow a discussion very close, so it would be very helpfull if you could be notified in real time when a new message arrives at that discussion. Because of the open source thing Jabber has, this could be "easy" implemented (by "easy" I mean that it would me much harder to do with systems like ICQ, MSN,...). So I would like to do the inverse thing of jogger (http://jogger.jabber.org): instead of "me" bringing messages to the web I would like to have the web bring messages to me. So it would have the functionality of http://www.jabberbuddy.com/watcher.html but I would like to have it available to more people and continuing the decentralised spirit of jabber. E.g.with sourceforge.net you could follow new releases of programs (e.g. Exodus) by first subscribing to the newsbot of sourceforge (because it should be easy to use: I wouldn't want them to a Jabber server first, just a JID with any server should do the job) and then with a special command, you can follow the releases. Because I wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel I contacted you first, because maybe this already exists or maybe you have a much better idea. My goal is to bring Jabber much much closer to the "ordinary" home user or "ordinary" web developer, I want them to see that jabber has much more in it than e.g. ICQ or MSN. I tried to convince some friends of me to go to using Jabber, but they just didn't saw nor I could convince them (or not all of them) why it was important to have another IM-system taking up their RAM. Because I've got to proof to my professor that I can program and develop ideas as implementations, I should do it by my own, I hope you understand this and I really want to do sth with Jabber. Of course it would be really appreciated if you could help me with a problem I just can't get around with or you also could try it and give comment (after all, you guys are more used to jabber) on the system. hoping to hear from you soon greetings Mattias Campe _________________________________________________________________ MSN Foto's is de eenvoudigste manier om je foto's te delen en af te drukken: http://photos.msn.nl/Support/WorldWide.aspx _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
