[JDEV] Best way to drive Jabber adoption?

[Mattias Campe]

Bart van Bragt wrote:
> Another example; a friend of mine was watching me use Psi and she asked 
> me if she could use that too. She really liked the cute little stars in 
> front of the contacts... :D Do you think she cares about the fact that 
> Jabber is using a distributed network? That it uses XML? That it's easy 
> to extend/modify? Nope, not really :D She liked the cute stars :D

Same story here, my sister saw me chatting with Rhymbox once and I 
showed her all the emoticons. Although she knows what Jabber is all 
about, she was more interested in those emoticons then in what Jabber 
stands for... strange, but it happens all the time with end users. But, 
to be honest, she's using MSN Messenger again, the groupchat didn't 
worked well enough and she missed file transfer.

> Hmm, maybe we could push the free Trillian as the recommended client to 
> new users when (if?) that version supports Jabber? :D

I'm also considering such a "plan"... I've read on forums of Trillian 
that the free version will support Jabber in the future, but what if 
they don't? And I don't want to purge friends to use an illegal version 
of Trillian Pro...

Mattias