[JDEV] Jabber Advocacy

[Ashvil]

> I've certainly tried a few times, but we just don't have a good enough
> handle on why the general population should care about Jabber.
> Personally, I'm having a hard enough time selling it to fellow open
> source developers, the same people who refuse to MS Office documents
> because they're closed! (Yet they're fine using AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo!)

Why ? What do they not understand here. Can we this find out. What are their
objections. If Jabber cannot win on it's home turf, then it a very serious
issue.

Can we get SourceForge to run a Jabber server for all their users (384K).
That would be a good way to attract them.

Regards,
Ashvil