Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

Mark Sirota wrote:
> --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.

Some folks on the Psi client project are working on extended presence
via JEP-0163:

http://psi-im.org/

They might have an interest in what you're up to, feel free to hop on
their forums etc.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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