[JDEV] Poll about who will use Jabber when Trillian comes out

[Thomas Muldowney]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:55, Bart van Bragt wrote:
> I would like to reitterate the question I asked on the marketing-jig 
> list a week ago: Do we think the current jabber.org site is sufficient 
> for the sudden increase in complete noobs :D
> 
> IMO: No. The jabber site contains too much technobabble, information to 
> get started is too dispersed or you need to read way too much. IMO 
> people just want to get started as fast as possible and they'll come 
> back if they want extra info... My proposal: A quickstart guide for 
> endusers that uses a few lines to tell how great Jabber really is and 
> then it gives the user a few steps they'll have to take to get started.
> 
> But I could be wrong I guess. Maybe the current site is already OK and 
> am I just underestimating the average Joe...

I think this is a sign of a larger end user problem.  We have no site
that caters to end users, and we have no Jabber setup that caters to
them either.  Where is the interest matching?  Where are the general
chat rooms?  They don't exist.  We need an icq.com type deal for Jabber
if we're truly going to start working on an end user face.  I've wanted
to do a site like that for a while now, but no one else has really
seemed to want it or think it meritted the amount of effort it will take
to do it properly.  I guess the question keeps boiling down to, is this
a major JSF/jabber.org problem?  Are we supposed to foster the end user
community and develop the protocol/system?  I think that's just the tip
of the iceberg for my thoughts, so if you want some more, just ask.

--temas