> As posted at my blog.... > > *** > > I have this vision for jabber.org services: > > 1. A clean and simple website with minimal text that will help end > users get started with Jabber. > > 2. Web chat for a real-time window into one end-user chatroom and one > developer chatroom (and perhaps one additional room, such as a > language-specific or country-specific room). > > 3. Internationalized versions of everything so that volunteers around > the world can run sites like de.jabber.org (Germany) and pt.jabber.org > (Portugal). > > 4. Extension of this international model to XMPP services, so that we > can run SOCKS5 data proxies for file transfer and TURN media relays for > voice+video all over the world (we'll need to convince companies and > ISPs and non-profit organizations that this is in their interest, since > they are the people with the bandwidth). > > For me the idea here is that jabber.org will be the community-driven > "running code" laboratory for the formal "rough consensus" technologies > produced by the XMPP Standards Foundation. The goal is to build an open > and distributed IM, presence, data, and VoIP service that can provide a > realistic alternative to closed systems like Skype. > > None of this would be exclusive. We'd still strongly encourage people to > run their own XMPP services and join the network. But we'd also work > hard to have worldwide coverage under the jabber.org banner. > > Call this "Jabber 2.0" if you must. In any case, I think it's time for a > strong community centered at jabber.org to provide technology leadership > in the communication space and thus help us all achieve the original > mission that Jeremie Miller set out long ago: freedom of conversation. >
Great but... who's the target? The client if you will? Because the pitch will be different if you're a CTO, a third-party service, a developer, some random user. I read your bullet points list and I wonder: "who is he speaking to?" Not to downplay your motivation Peter but how will you measure success or failure if you can't tell who you were targeting in the first place. XMPP and Jabber have been driven mostly by technologists and developers so far and we all know those usually suck at making things appetizing for the rest of the World. Once you know who is your "market", you can go and find the best people in each arena and get them excited about Jabber, not as a technology, but as a mean, a vision like you say. - Sylvain -- Sylvain Hellegouarch http://www.defuze.org _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
