Awesome....looks like a great vision to me! Hope it becomes a reality.
Geof Lambert | 916.225.6769 Chat: Google Talk: geof.lambert Skype: geof.lambert MSN: geof.lamb...@gmail.com Contact Me: [image: Linkedin] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/geoflambert>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/digitaldivide>[image: MySpace]<http://www.myspace.com/greenprotocol> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpe...@stpeter.im>wrote: > 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. > > *** > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ > >
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