Presence and IntComm WG

["Peter Saint-Andre (psaintan)" <>]

Jesse, I see buddycloud as an XMPP enhancement - it installs as an external 
component - that could integrate with Sakai or Moodle. 

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On Feb 22, 2012, at 8:20 AM, "Jesse Thompson" 
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 wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I regret that I didn't participate in the last wg-pic conference call. It 
> sounds like it was an interesting topic.  See the message below from Jeanne 
> regarding Wisconsin's interest in Sakai.  Keep me posted about any 
> initiatives regarding Sakai, BuddyCloud, and XMPP.
> 
> I'm trying to define the line between where I should be involved vs. when I 
> should punt to Jeanne and Scott.  I focus on communication and 
> collaboration infrastructure technology (email, calendaring, chat, etc), 
> and Jeanne focuses more on academic learning technology (Desire2Learn, 
> Moodle, etc).
> 
> From my initial glance at these products, it appears that Sakai is 
> something that I wouldn't be involved with, unless there is a way for Sakai 
> to be installed on top of our existing XMPP infrastructure. BuddyCloud 
> looks like it could be an additional service offering in my area, but I 
> can't tell how much it overlaps with our existing XMPP infrastructure.  Am 
> I on the right track?
> 
> Do you have any details on how Sakai and/or BuddyCloud would use existing 
> XMPP infrastructure?  Or is XMPP merely the technology that Sakai and 
> BuddyCloud use as their transports?  Another way to ask: are these services 
> something that would replace our existing XMPP service (p2p chat, muc), 
> enhance the feature set, or something that an organization would run 
> alongside and independent of a traditional XMPP service?
> 
> Jesse
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Sakai
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:59:21 -0600
> From: Jeanne Blochwitz 
> <>
> To: Jesse Thompson 
> <>
> CC: Scott Fullerton 
> <>
> 
> Jesse,
> 
> I would be very interested in finding out more on the discussion about 
> federation of activity streams - this is of interest in Learning Analytics 
> - an emerging area.  Scott Fullerton and I recently looked into the 
> technical specifications for Sakai.  I would be interested in finding out 
> more about developments around integration of activity streams with Sakai.
> 
> As far as what DoIT is pursuing with Sakai, there are no current projects, 
> but I have been asked to work with Scott Fullerton to look into a potential 
> pilot for Sakai.
> 
> 
> Jeanne Blochwitz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jeanne,
>> 
>> Is Sakai a product that DoIT is pursuing in any extent?
>> 
>> My contact at the XMPP foundation (WiscChat is an XMPP service) contacted 
>> me about a discussion he had with people from Internet2 and
>> BuddyCloud regarding federation of activity streams across educational 
>> institutions, perhaps including integration with the Sakai Project.
>> 
>> Jesse
>> 
> 
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