We will release our jabber sourcecode as far as it is ready on the 11th of April. I finally think it is in a shape where people could have a look at it. Furthermore I will give a presentation in Copenhagen about this for people interested. You can find the ongoing documentation efforts at
http://aiesec-dev.sussdorff-roy.com:8002/jabber/doc/.
In a recent chat I was pointed to the coccinella, a jabber client that offers collaborative whiteboard capabilities. One idea would be to use the OpenACS jabber client to store the whiteboard XML in OpenACS itself and allow whiteboard(s) within a room (or class of dotLRN). People could subscribe to one or multiple whiteboards they want to edit aso. .Conferencing is already enabled so you can have (logged) groupchats.
I wanted to start this thread to get ideas flowing so I could hook up with our developers to have a plan for the post launch and bugfixing period.
This effort is funded by S&R and to a lesser degree by AIESEC, who delivered most of the ideas and who will be the first testcase for the module, replacing their current IRC based chats.
Developers are Björn Kiesbye (mailto:bkiesbye@sussdorff-roy.com) as well as Luis Mosteiro Fernandez (mailto:lmosteiro@sussdorff-roy.com).
All comments are more then welcome, hope this prooves usefull for the OpenACS community in general. And sorry for the delay, but it took considerably longer to develop (especially after we had it finished for ACS 3.5 and then decided to move to OpenACS...).
