My first priority would be to make some kind of minimal chat
room available for people who need it. As I see it, that means we
need a couple of things:
- The ability to spawn a chat room (done?)
- The ability to log a chat room conversation (done?)
- The ability to tie the chat room to permissions (not done?)
- Some kind of chat room client
On this last point, I personally am OK about letting people
download whatever jabber client they like and maybe including
one of the Java clients with OpenACS. However, I understand
that some folks prefer not to require client-side Java since
Windows is now shipping without it installed. In that case, we
would need some kind of in-page javascripty thing with
auto-refresh. (Ugh.)
One other thing that sounds like it might be easy and worthwhile
to do is to create a service contract for a presence indicator that
could be called by other modules.
In terms of other applications for Jabber messaging, while I'm
open to the idea, I have yet to hear of an application that strikes
me as very useful. The only thing I could potentially see is to use
as a bridge to a text pager or some other wireless device. Other
than that...
Anyway, thanks for the good work, Tom.
