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I'm looking for a developer (team?) to build me a turn key xmpp server/community website. Please email me dean 'at' cognation.net for a full copy of the draft RFP if you are able to deliver this solution, a brief outline is available below. thanks in advance Dean Collins LIVECHAT XMPP PROJECT The purpose of this document is to request a RFP from development companies for the implementation of a LiveChat xmpp application to run on a new website. The intention of this document is to outline the initial scope of works and act as a stimulus for moving forward and is not to be considered a binding contract for development or a complete list of requirements. WHAT IS THE PROPOSED LIVECHAT INTERACTION EXPERIENCE? The LiveChat website will be a destination website. The intention is that people will log in to the website and chat real time with each other around specific discussion topics with a limited window time for each topic. For Example; Room 1 Middle East Politics 1pm to 2pm Room 2 USA Financial Projections 1pm to 2pm Room 1 Cooking Italian 2pm to 3pm Room 2 Learning Spanish 2pm to 3pm When you type the LiveChat url into your browser you will be presented with a lobby of all discussions currently being held at that time and login entry details. After entering your login details you simply choose the discussion that you want to participate in and are placed into the chat room with other people discussing the same topic. It is our desire to use a browser based ajax xmpp client to enable the users to chat in the individual chat rooms. Along with the resizable chat content panel an advertising carousel and function icons will allow for navigation. The idea simply is that you will have an outlet to interact with people wishing to discuss the same topic as you for a fixed period of time. At the end of the allocated discussion time the chat room and all of its dialog will be torn down and deleted and users pushed back into the lobby. Whilst people may choose to then join another room from the lobby, the concept is to tightly intertwine chat with the discussion topic itself within defined time periods. Functionality Differences Through our research with existing chat application vendors it has become apparent that LiveChat as a destination for a fixed period of time based on a single discussion just hasnt been implemented. Although it would be quite easy for other sites to implement/mimic our application; the standard concept of a Chat Room is a 24x7 continuous destination where people log in and out at leisure. Whilst some rooms have specific topics these rooms by their very nature are designed to be continuous and not driven by fixed timeframes. OPPORTUNITY TIMEFRAMES The time frame for public launch of the LiveChat website will be at the very latest December 2008 but could be brought forward either by using off the shelf existing applications with customization or pushed back through other commitments of development partners. Development Costs Apart from application development costs and basic web UI; it is hopeful we can keep costs to a minimum. As this site will have a minimal revenue from advertising support, development costs need to be kept to a tight budget, hopefully advertising revenues should be more than enough to support the ongoing development of additional features for this website. -- dean.collins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dean.collins's Profile: http://www.jabberforum.org/member.php?userid=17175 View this thread: http://www.jabberforum.org/showthread.php?t=570
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