Re: [DotGNU]jabber conference

[Adam Theo]

Gopal V wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Brandon Bremen wrote:
>
> > I created a dotgnu  room on conference.jabber.org if anyone wants to use 
> > it. Im trying to set up an irc <--> jabber thingymabob on my server but 
> > it isn't quite so easy. Atleast the config file is in good ol' XML!
>
>
> I think going the Jabber way might have it's difficulties .. for example
> how in the world will you replicate a dotgnu-sage in Jabber ?.

I don't know what DotGNU-Sage is, but I'm assuming it is a chat bot 
program. Jabber has a very featured one already, called ChatBot. You can 
see how it works in the address@hidden room at any time.

It does join messages (when a certain someone enters the room a 
customized message can be "spoken" by chatbot, my new one is "Johnny 
Jabberseed" thanks to StPeter :-)

Also it stored URLs and descriptions of people and terms for query. Try 
this by doinjg "?? JOSL" in the chatroom. It will respond with what the 
JOSL is (the Mozilla-like license that the open source server is under) 
and hopefully a URL to read it. You can do this on people ("?? theo"), 
or anything else that is defined with ChatBot.

ChatBot uses plug-ins to expand functionality. There are other plugins 
for rolling dice, stock quotes (if memory serves), and other things.

And the best thing ChatBot does is logging of the chatroom.

Jabber still has problems with firewalls, although there is a solution. 
I don't know if the Jabber.org server has http enabled, but if it does 
then people behind firewalls can use a http-enabled client (I think 
Gabber, Jarl, WinJab, Exodus and maybe a couple of other mature ones do) 
and connect to the jabber server on port 80 wrapping the jabber messages 
as http packets.

If the Jabber.org server does not, then perhaps dotgnu.org could set up 
its own jabber server? maybe even a public one to encourage dotgnuers to 
use jabber more often? the JabberD server is amazingly resource 
lightweight, and very easy to install. If you are worried about the 
load, I can tell you you probably only need to start worrying when you 
get lots of users. I'd say go ahead and set one up, and if it gets too 
much, just shut it down or outsource the jabber operations.

If you want, I'd be happy to take an hour or two of my time to set it up 
for you. just give me a regular user ftp and ssh account, and i'll have 
it up and running in 2 hours max, complete with SSL and conference 
support. Never set up HTTP support, but shouldn't be that hard after 
figuring out SSL.

> IMHO IRC is an almost ideal solution which has been used for the past
> year ..... But I'm personally open to all suggestions . The guys who
> are left out from IRC are people who are heavily firewalled and proxied.
> Is there way to do it in Jabber ? ....
>
> I would like to stress that Jabber is an integral component of DotGNU
> communication package ... So we *should* use Jabber for stuff ..
>
> So let's try this as an experiment .... Next week's meeting will be held 
> on Jabber to try out Jabber's strengths and weaknesses. What's the opinion
> about that ?... After all we have got the time (and some have the bandwidth).
>
> Also I'm waiting for Adam Theo's comments on this ....
>
> Gopal


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