[JDEV] "people matcher" followup

[Jerome Banks]

  Rob,
    Try putting the project on Sourceforge 
   http://www.sourceforge.net . They'll give you 
   a web page, CVS repository, mailing list, and 
   ton's of other tools

  --- jerome

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Brown [mailto:rob at hypermatch.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:21 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] "people matcher" followup
> 
> 
> I'm happy to see that I've gotten lots of enthusiastic emails 
> regarding 
> integrating a people-matcher into Jabber.  So it looks like 
> I'll start a 
> project.
> 
> A few things that have come out of the private emails:
> 
> 1) For the most part, this will be a relatively 
> straightforward transport.
> 
> 2) The communication with hypermatch will in itself be an XML 
> based, open 
> protocol.  Other matching systems can support it too, and 
> users should be 
> able to subscribe to multiple matching systems at once.
> 
> 3) We should look into ways of making this available to users 
> of other IM 
> systems (icq, aim etc), who have yet to be enlightened and joined the 
> Jabber world.  Maybe it will be a good way to bring them in! :)
> 
> 4) To work best, people-matching should be (minimally) 
> accounted for in 
> clients' user interfaces, however this is not strictly 
> necessary.  In other 
> words, you could still use the service if your client doesn't 
> explicitly 
> support it, but it won't be quite as elegant and / or 
> convenient.  Editing/reviewing of profiles is *not* going to 
> be part of the 
> client, it makes more sense to be web based (at this point, anyway).
> 
> Now----how to start a project?  I figured I'd create a page 
> for this, as 
> well as a start a mailing list.  Is egroups acceptable for a mailing 
> list?  How do I get a project put on jabber.org?
> 
> -rob
> 
> 
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