[Wocky] Re: Invitation to participate in the Jabber messaging pilot
Paul B. Hill
pbh at MIT.EDU
Wed Oct 19 10:55:55 EDT 2005
Hi Cecilia,
To date we haven't investigated any of the browser based Jabber clients, nor
have we developed a timeline of when we will tackle this issue. There is the
open source JWChat <http://jwchat.sourceforge.net/> which looks interesting.
However, the authentication issue presents a challenge at the moment.
Scott Thorne has also indicated that there is some interest in creating an
OKI OSID implementation to use the Jabber service for IM. I don't think
anyone at MIT is actively working on that, but perhaps someone outside of
MIT is working on it.
Paul Hill
Information Services and Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: wocky-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:wocky-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Joanne M. Hallisey
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:30 AM
To: Cecilia Marra
Cc: wocky at mit.edu
Subject: [Wocky] Re: Invitation to participate in the Jabber messaging pilot
Hi Cecilia,
I am copying the list so that the others can see your list of
requirements and answer.
Thanks,
Joanne
>Hi Joanne,
>
>I would like to participate in this pilot. I am looking for a chat
>product that could be integrated (thin client, browser-based) within
>a student advising web site, so that students could ask questions
>and have them answered by advisors real time. I would like
>kerb/certificate authentication and encryption, to abide by FERPA
>regulations. It'd be great if those requirements could be met by a
>chat service offered through IS&T.
>
>Thanks.
>Cecilia
>
>
>At 10:59 AM 10/18/2005, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>IS&T invites you to participate in a pilot of a Jabber Instant
>>Messaging service. Jabber is an instant messaging system that
>>allows MIT users to communicate with one another and Jabber users
>>elsewhere on the Internet. Jabber also supports creation and
>>joining of chat rooms for group communication. Additionally, many
>>Jabber clients also offer support for other instant messaging
>>systems such as AIM (AOL) and YIM (Yahoo).
>>
>>The intention of the pilot is to learn more about requirements for
>>providing this as an enterprise messaging service and understand
>>some of the support and service issues. The pilot will focus on
>>setting up the server environment and delivering installers for
>>GAIM and AdiumX (software clients for Linux, Macintosh and Windows).
>>
>>The Jabber pilot team will provide limited best effort support, and
>>pilot participants are strongly encouraged to give feedback. As the
>>pilot progresses, the team will send updates and post them to the
>>web pages listed below. The pilot will run through December 2005.
>>IS&T will start a more formal release effort if the pilot is
>>successful.
>>
>>The following draft web pages provide download information,
>>configuration instructions and information about known issues.
>>
>>Jabber Service Page
>><http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/messaging/jabber.html>
>>
>>Jabber Stock Answer Branch
>><http://itinfo.mit.edu/answer.php?id=7916>
>>
>>Please note:
>>As always, protect your password. Do not allow the client program
>>to store your password.
>>
>>For questions or more information please contact the team via the
>>Wocky mailing list:
>>Wocky at mit.edu
>><http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/wocky>
>>
>>Thank you.
>>For the Jabber Team,
>>--
>>Joanne Hallisey
>>_______________________________________________
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>>--
>>Joanne Hallisey
>>Sr. Project Manager
>>MIT - Information Services and Technology
>>617-253-1894
>
>Web and Database Consultant
>Office of Academic Services
>MIT
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>cmarra at mit.edu
--
Joanne Hallisey
Sr. Project Manager
MIT - Information Services and Technology
617-253-1894
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