This page is a proposal for a unified chat (instant messaging) environment.

Ticket: http://jira.bluelightav.org/browse/BLUE-1038

This is work in progress!!!

XMPP seem to be an acceptable choice:

• free protocol
• free accounts with jabber.org
• vast choice of clients
• inter-compatibility with gtalk and possibly other common services

Problems:

• Google Hangout does not support XMPP

Proposition:

• anyone should have either:
  • Google account (including the users in the auroville.in.org domain) without Google Hangout activated
  • a jabber.org account
• client: any choice within (Adium, Chat.app, Pidgin, Android Gtalk, etc). See also http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/

Jabber server

Few notes on the installation of a ejabberd server.

Note that there are many open and free jabber servers around, so we might not want to set up one.

Below, the steps to configure on Rose:

apt-get install ejabberd

dpkg-reconfigure -plow ejabberd

Parameters for dpkg-reconfigure:

Jabber host name: rose

Administrator user name: admin

Administrator password: bluelightav