[JDEV] Best way to drive Jabber adoption?

Mattias Campe mattias.campe at UGent.be
Thu Jun 12 06:22:53 CDT 2003


GuruJ wrote:
> While it would be lovely to have a consumer-grade IM product out there, 
> the fact is that centrally hosting such a service (as people have 
> pointed out) costs heaps of money for bandwidth and server costs. 

Maybe setting up a jabberstudio project for making a jabber end-user 
site *framework* would solve the cost problem: then it's up to others to 
actually use that framework on a site in their own country :).

And it almost completely solves:
 > Additionally, the administration, maintenance, moderation and content
 > creation time would be almost prohibitive on a volunteer network.

Almost, because you can't get away from the maintenance problem :(

greetings,
Mattias






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