Presence and IntComm WG

[Mark Sirota <>]

--On Tuesday, August 8, 2006 7:53 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre 
<> wrote:
> One thing that various Jabberites have talked about here and there is
> the concept of an XMPP daemon that runs on your machine and enables
> various applications to tap into the goodness of Jabber. So your iTunes
> or Songbird instance could push out tune info, your calendaring app
> could push out activity info that it knows about, and so on. Each one of
> those apps would have a "pipe" to the Jabber world via the daemon. But
> no one has ever gotten really far with that idea.
>
> Another approach is to write a plugin for an existing client. Exodus has
> a nice plugin architecture, and one of the Psi developers is working on
> a plugin system as a Summer of Code project.
>
> Or naturally you could roll your own using one of the existing Python,
> Ruby, Perl, Java, C, C++, or C# libraries.

That's pretty much exactly what I'm writing!  However, I wasn't expecting
the apps to push data into it, because that also involves persuading those
applications to do the pushing.  Instead, I'm envisioning an architecture
where a series of small standalone modules or programs could grab data 
from
iTunes, your calendar, your GPS locator, or whatever and send it on to the
presence manager.

I keep getting distracted by other work, but I've been within sniffing
distance of a working proof of concept for about two weeks.

If there are other people you know of who are interested in this idea,
perhaps you could put me in touch with them?  I'd love some help writing
this, especially the modules I described above.

Mark