[jdev] Re: XMPP RFC numbers; marketing effort?

[Justin Karneges]

On Monday 04 October 2004 11:46 am, Bart van Bragt wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > What do you have in mind for user-friendly content changes on jabber.org?
>
> Not sure because IMO jabber.org is fairly OK as a developers portal. But
> this is the first sentence of the 'What is Jabber' page:
>
> "Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies that enable
> any two entities on the Internet to exchange messages, presence, and
> other structured information in close to real time."
>
> Imagine what happens if your grandmother reads that ;) Or what happens
> if your grandmother figures out that she can talk to her bridge parter
> through Jabber if she installs a client. To choose a client she'll go to:
> http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.php

There are basically two matters at hand:
  1) Promoting Jabber as an IM network to Grandma.
  2) Promoting Jabber as an all-purpose networking platform.

Combining both of these into one website is impossible, and I think jabber.org 
already does a fine job at #2.  Therefore, the solution to #1 is to build a 
second, separately marketed, website.  No need to hack jabber.org to bits.

-Justin