[jadmin] Jabber Server list

[Jesse Thompson]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Jesse Thompson wrote:
>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> We've been working on a new process for the public server
>>> listings. More information here:
>>>
>>> http://new.jabber.org/im-services
>>> http://new.jabber.org/submission-guide/im-service
>>> http://new.jabber.org/submission-guide/im-service/policy
>>>
>>> Feedback is welcome. :)
>> I think it would be useful to allow "closed" systems to register as
>> well, perhaps under a different section.  
> 
> For most end users, I think that would not be especially helpful. We are
> have been reworking the site to mostly provide information that will
> help new end users get started with Jabber. If we show them a list of IM
> services that 90% of the users can't register with, they'll just get
> confused. Or such has been the philosophy of the website team so far.

Fair enough.  It would get a bit long to display all of them in a list.
 The wizard approach would be better.


>> It would be useful for our
>> users that don't realize that we provide them with a service that they
>> are eligible to use.  It would be useful for administrators to find
>> contact information for the administrators of the remote domain if there
>> is an issue that needs troubleshooting.
> 
> Yes, *that* is useful, which is why I've been pushing the idea of an
> XMPP Operators Group:
> 
> https://stpeter.im/?p=2149

Looks like a great idea!


>> Also, since you're collecting geolocation information, perhaps it would
>> be useful to allow end-users to provide their own geolocation to help
>> them find the nearest physical service.  
> 
> I think that few end users know their own geolocation (lat/lon). See
> above on keeping things simple simple simple.

There has to be an API for that.  How about:
http://search.cpan.org/~allenday/Geo-Google-0.05/lib/Geo/Google.pm

If you're really clever, you could mark all of the XMPP servers on a
Google map and let the users choose directly from there.


>> On the same note, perhaps let
>> them specify their email address so that end-users can be told if their
>> email domain provider also provides an XMPP service (as is our case;
>> gmail is another example)
> 
> Good idea -- I'll pass it along to the webteam (probably in the next
> iteration we'll add an account-registration wizard of some kind).
> 
> Peter
> 
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