[jadmin] Can Jabber replace IRC for an educational institution's distance ed program?

[Robert Muchnick]

For client-side info: http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide/, Ch. 7 
"Groupchat", and 3.0 for a list of clients.

Server-side config: http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/2/docs/
  A.7. Jabberd for Corporate Use
And see the JEP here for multi-user chat: 
http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0045.html

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Shane Beers wrote:

> I apologize if this question is redundant, but I have not found any
> archive of the mailing lists discussions.
>
> I am an employee at one of my university's distance education
> programs. We currently use an IRC server for student chat during
> synchronous class sessions, available to them via a tradtional IRC
> client or, more commonly, a java-based web frontend (WebMaster
> ConferenceRoom 2.0).
>
> Unfortunately, due to the lack of security of IRC, federal educational
> policies are forcing us to examine other options.
>
> We are aware that some departments are licensing/purchasing Jabber
> servers for this application. However, I have no real idea where to
> start looking to accomplish our goals. Essentially we would like our
> users to notice as little of a change as possible.
>
> Can Jabber be accessed for IRC chat-room-like conversation via the
> web, preferrably through an existing java client? I would imagine that
> this has been accomplished in some fashion, somewhere.
>
> Thanks, and again, I apologize if this has been discussed at length before.


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