A jabber hosting offer...

[Walter Bender]

While we have ideas about how to scale up the jabber interface, it has
also always been the idea that local communities (schools,
neighborhoods), communities of interest (book clubs, chess clubs)
etc., would run their own servers. The more the merrier at this stage.
We probably need a better forum for advertising them. In any case,
there are instructions in the wiki: go for it.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration

-walter


On Jan 5, 2008 3:28 PM, Dave Belfer-Shevett <dbs at stonekeep.com> wrote:
> I've just received my, er,  my son's XO, and he's ecstatic with it,
> enjoying fiddling with Python programs and other tidbits.  I've heard
> that the Jabber 'chat' functions are disabled on the US XO's, mostly
> because the existing jabber hosts can't really take the load of all
> these machines going out.
>
> I have machinery and bandwidth available for setting up a dedicated,
> fairly powerful machine specifically to run Jabber for the OLPC
> community.  I have no problems building, configuring, installing, and
> maintaining the machine in a colo facility in Bedford, MA.  I'll donate
> the hardware and time to make it work, if it'll benefit the project.
>
> I'm looking at a dual-Xeon 2.8 gig Ubuntu Gutsy box (1U) with a pair of
> mirrored drives.  The facility has multiple peered connections (it
> supports a series of VOIP servers), and is well managed.
>
> I have experience running jabber servers, and sysadminning.  Would this
> be of benefit to the community?
>
> Please let me know.  I can be reached on jabber at
> dbs at jabber.stonekeep.com , or email at dbs at stonekeep.com is fine too.
> I'm also (obviously) on the devel list :)
>
> Thanks.  I do want to contribute to the project in any way I can...
>
>         -dbs
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Walter Bender
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