[JDEV] "people matcher" followup

[Peter Saint-Andre]

I second the motion. Rob, if you decide to do this, please post here when
you have the SF project up and running.

Thanks!

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
IM: stpeter at jabber.com
Email: psaintandre at webb.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerome Banks [mailto:Jbanks at dicarta.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 4:11 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] "people matcher" followup
> 
> 
> 
>   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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