Presence and IntComm WG

[Jesse Thompson <>]

Does anyone out there use the Muckl groupchat client?

http://blog.jwchat.org/muckl/

It looks like it works very well.  By offering a groupchat-only client, 
it allows us to offer a groupchat service to students without having to 
support a full p2p jabber client that they don't really use.

I have modified it to support single sign on, and it will sign an 
authenticated user into any MUC room provided as a GET param.

e.g.
https://wiscmail.wisc.edu/groupchat?room=foobar
https://wiscmail.wisc.edu/groupchat?

So, with this design, any of our campus services/faculty/staff can link 
to any room they see fit.  It can be used for classroom discussions, 
study help, virtual office hours, exam prep, in-class questions, etc. 
The possibilities are endless especially if you consider non-class 
related usage.

The rooms aren't provisioned ahead of time, so we will need to write a 
bot to periodically go through all of the rooms in the courses domain 
and reset the room ownership.

It doesn't look like Muckl is under active development, so if anyone 
else is using it or planning to use it, we should probably coordinate on 
any modifications and extensions we make.

Jesse

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  Jesse Thompson
  Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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