On 4 January 2011 09:45, James Tait <james.t...@wyrddreams.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/11 17:26, Paul Tansom wrote: >> I added myself to the waiting list a while back though, so I'll >> probably get one eventually. > > If you haven't already had an invitation, I can send you one. Best reply > off-list though. ;) > >> I looked at the requirements for running a server, but decided I >> didn't really want to start messing with Ruby as there's nothing else >> on my server that uses it. If it had been Perl (or PHP?!) I might >> have taken a closer look. > > My sentiments exactly. This is kind of what drew me to OneSocialWeb, > actually - since it's based on XMPP and I already run ejabberd, I > thought the barrier to running my own server would be much lower. > Unfortunately, OSW only has an implementation based on the Java-powered > OpenFire XMPP server, and I don't currently use Java for anything else > on my server either (pretty shocking, considering I've been primarily > employed as a Java developer for most of the last 10 years!). >
Likewise. As much as I begged the OSW developers they wouldn't fix this, which is why I was never able to run it on my server. Having an open protocol needlessly tied to a single implementation is not the way to conquer the world. Unfortunately the way it was designed would require significant code in every XMPP server. > I've seen some comments about Diaspora-X, which seems to be Diaspora > hacked to use XMPP as a transport. Does anyone here know any more about it? > Yeah, it looks promising - I'm currently working to make a cross-XMPP-server backend for it. Not quite ready yet though :) Regards, Matthew -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
