-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Maybe I am - and Rachel can correct me if that is the case - but in the > context of her previous posts I understand that she was advocating a > portal site run by the general Jabber community (maybe called jabber.net) > that would choose one client above all other clients as some sort of > "Official" client for Jabber. This is what I am strongly opposed to.
Lemme rephrase. :) I think the JSF's time is best spend improving Jabber, supporting all the client development, and so on. I think Jabber.net is more valuable as something /not/ directly run by the JSF, who should spend their time elsewhere. I think this hypothetical Jabber portal is an entirely separate project, and while it might be nice for it to have the blessings of the JSF, I do not think it should be an 'official' portal for precisely the reason you name...no one client should be singled out /by the JSF/ as an official client. I see nothing wrong with this /portal/ singling out a client as the 'official' client (sorry for the terminology) on their page that you download, which interacts easily to sign up, and which they provide tech support for. I grant you, however, that a Jabber portal may end up representing Jabber to the end-user community, which could still raise resentment for whatever reason. But I think if you have a 'GIU' portal, to reuse earlier terminology, then to try and provide user guides/help/etc for Psi, Exodus, Rhymbox, Gabber, Nitro, etc etc etc. -- that's going to be a losing battle. Give them a single client they can download and use easily, and certainly put a section on the site that guides them towards other clients, but have one client built /for this site/ which is simple to use and is targeted specifically at getting general IM users onto Jabber. Does that clarify? - -- Rachel Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trillian Messenger - http://www.trillian.cc/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQE+7fDuzxcwfH0qMicRAiTAAJ0XoPeN0Gsjb7mqKhS6bsMxguEbXQCfZ2pX igNztl+dyMlQDLunh+pR1kw= =9Yj9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
