<div dir="ltr">The big benefit of having an Infrastructure-Gang that can administer a jabber server (or several virtual ones) is that more than one person can fix it if it breaks. I could also foresee an irc bot that resides on an XO somewhere and lets the Infrastructure-Gang irc channel (#olpc-admin) know if the server goes down.<br>
<br>For those of you who have accounts on RT, please add your comments on ticket:<br><a href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19413">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19413</a><br><br>I totally believe that this is a task that our crack volunteer squad can handle as a community. Let's make it happen.<br>
<br>--S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Seth Woodworth wrote:<br>
> I cleaned up some of the Jabber pages on the wiki last night:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jabber" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jabber</a><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers</a><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Run_a_Jabber_Server" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Run_a_Jabber_Server</a><br>
><br>
> I also added a wiki navigation header in a template: {{jabber}}<br>
><br>
> My plan/goal was to provide ''Running a Jabber Server'' as an open<br>
> task to the Volunteer Infrastructure-Gang. I think that running a<br>
> really solid vmware (or zen) instance of ejabbered would be a really<br>
> simple and useful task for volunteers to work on.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I second this. Having a good VM with ejabberd preconfigured (plus<br>
instructions, of course) would be great! For example, grandma's LAMP<br>
(<a href="http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/581" target="_blank">http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/581</a>) is a Ubuntu 6.06.1<br>
based LAMP development environment. I use it all the time to stage sites<br>
that need maintenance or tweaking. Having a canned solution reduces the<br>
barrier to entry for running servers.<br>
<br>
Sameer<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>
San Francisco State University<br>
San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>
<a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
<a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
> The best first step (IMO) would be to recruit for the<br>
> Infrastructure-Gang to better support public tools created and<br>
> maintained by the community.<br>
><br>
> --S<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Morgan Collett<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> <<a href="mailto:morgan.collett@gmail.com">morgan.collett@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:morgan.collett@gmail.com">morgan.collett@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> The default jabber server in jhbuild, <a href="http://olpc.collabora.co.uk" target="_blank">olpc.collabora.co.uk</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://olpc.collabora.co.uk" target="_blank">http://olpc.collabora.co.uk</a>>, isn't<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> usable at the moment since it is being used to test Gadget - so it<br>
> doesn't have a shared roster.<br>
><br>
> Many of the community servers aren't working. The issue is that their<br>
> databases become overloaded once too many people register, and so they<br>
> need to periodically have their databases cleaned (see<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration#Tips" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration#Tips</a>)<br>
><br>
> We need a machine that developers can use, with someone taking an<br>
> interest in its uptime. <a href="http://jabber.laptop.org" target="_blank">jabber.laptop.org</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://jabber.laptop.org" target="_blank">http://jabber.laptop.org</a>>'s been hosed for a long<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> time.<br>
><br>
> I'm happy to set up a machine and run it, and provide instructions for<br>
> others to poke it when I'm asleep, if someone can arrange a VM for me<br>
> with hardy. I have the jabber server running on my laptop, but that's<br>
> behind NAT and a very long thin (expensive) pipe.<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
> Morgan<br>
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