[Server-devel] Collaboration server for existing network

[John Watlington]

On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>  
> wrote:
>> And indeed, the XS services are intended for such reuse.   I'm not  
>> sure
>> how many patches to the stock ejabberd are still needed...
>
> It's not so much the patches (you can grab the ejabberd-xs rpm from
> our repo), but the integration with other aspects.
>
> ejabberd is integrated with moodle which is integrated with
> registration. The basics are registration + moodle + ejabberd. Less
> than that and you really don't have the goods.

I expected that you would have to grab other parts as well.
But most of the underlying tools are relatively distro-independent.

> (Yes, you can get just get our patched ejabberd, but configuring it is
> messy, and it'll only work nicely with a small school, say less than
> 50~60 users.)

Yep.  Configuring everything to interoperate is the special sauce!

Cheers,
wad