Presence and IntComm WG

[Neal McBurnett <>]

I've been getting on board with Google's open source Android platform
recently (e.g. t-mobile G1 phone), which also does xmpp.  But I don't
see any group chat (muc) clients yet.   And I recall not finding any
gtalk chat rooms either even for desktop use.

And too bad it seems that google's code to implement the android
client is not open source at least yet:

 https://stpeter.im/?p=2082

Another xmpp client is "meebo" but it doesn't seem to have muc either.

Google uses the open source smack api and library for their client on
android, and some smack folks have put up their own instructions on
writing client code with smack:

 http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/

And smack seems to support muc

 
http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/smack/docs/latest/javadoc/org/jivesoftware/smackx/muc/MultiUserChat.html

so it may not be long before some good clients are out there.

What are some good open xmpp hosts that support creating your own chat
rooms?

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:03:10PM -0500, Callahan, Tim wrote:
> The interest for iPhone groupchat has come up several times in our calls.
> 
> We haven?t found a client yet but, I found that Beejive hints it is coming 
> (per
>  the last several months on their boards)  
> http://www.beejive.com/support/forum
> /viewtopic.php?f=7&t=273
> 
> Sep 29  ?Unfortunately we don't currently support Jabber chat rooms on the
> iPhone native app.
> 
> This is coming soon however, as we will be adding group chat capabilities 
> and
> joining Jabber chat rooms will be included in that.?
> 
> Nov 17 ?We're shooting for January?
> 
> Jan 10, 2009 ?Chat rooms are not supported yet, but will be added at some
> point. No ETA on them just yet.?
> 
> So, I guess they are hard to implement- but at least other users are active 
> in
> asking for the feature.
> 
> I was pretty happy with the group-less Beejive client for WindowsMobile, so
> hopefully they?ll do well with adding the rooms.