[Macpartners] Jabber Client Release Effort Underway Announcement

[Atticus O Gifford]

Good Afternoon,

IS&T is pleased to announce that Jabber clients for Mac OS X and Windows are
being prepared for release as a result of the Jabber pilot project.  We plan to
make Adium 0.89.1 for Mac OS X and Gaim 1.5.0 for Windows available to the MIT
community by the end of June.  These installers will be fully supported by the
MIT Computing Help Desk, and will be posted on the MIT Software download page
(http://web.mit.edu/software/).  The clients will also be part of the
recommended suite of core applications for incoming students this Fall.  Linux
users already have access to Gaim as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and we
will be announcing support for that client alongside the Mac and Windows
counterparts.

Jabber is an instant messaging protocol similar to those offered by AOL, ICQ,
MSN, and Yahoo.  IS&T?s Jabber service lets MIT users communicate with one
another and with Jabber users at other universities and elsewhere on the
Internet. It also supports the creation and joining of chat rooms for group
communication.  Use of the MIT namespace (username at mit.edu) makes it easier to
identify screen names of community members.

Jabber at MIT is an evolving service, and feedback is very welcome.  Please
email comments and suggestions to wocky-release at mit.edu.  Community feedback
will be instrumental in determining the future course of Jabber usage at MIT.

For more information about the Jabber client release effort, please visit the
release notebook:

http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/jabber/

You can also get more information about the Jabber pilot and download the
current Beta installers at the Jabber pilot project page:

http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/messaging/jabber.html

If you have any questions or suggestions,  please contact the release team via
email at wocky-release at mit.edu.

Thanks,
IS&T Jabber Client Release Team

William Cattey
Atticus Gifford
Joanne Hallisey
Heather Anne Harrison
Alex Kozlov
Jonathan Reed
Al Willis