[JDEV] Best way to drive Jabber adoption?

[David 'TheRaven' Chisnall]

Bart van Bragt wrote:

> GuruJ wrote:
>
>> (1) Set up a centralized jabber.net website.  Pick an 'official' 
>> client.  I understand that agreement on the 'best' of anything is 
>> almost impossible for an open-source community, but it's *essential* 
>> for end-users to feel comfortable that a 'sanctioned' client will do 
>> what they need, and be well-supported.  As noted above, this may be 
>> very hard to fund properly.
>
> IMO choosing an 'official' client is near impossible. It would also 
> invalidate the whole idea behind Jabber. But with the compliance 
> program it should be possible to point out several 'sanctioned' clients. 

While choosing an 'official' client would be counter to the Jabber 
philosophy, it would be a good idea to recommend a client with a similar 
UI to each of the legacy IM systems.  For example, JAJC closely mimics 
the ICQ UI, and so would be a good place to point former ICQ users.