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   Jabber: | Community Jabber Servers | Run a Jabber Server | Category:Jabber

What is a Jabber Server

A (specially configured) jabber server is used to allow multiple XO's to connect and collaborate remotely. Imagine that a school in Peru and a school in Canada wanted to collaborate on XO's. The mesh network doesn't stretch that far, but the two schools could use a Jabber server to communicate.

Currently, jabber servers can handle up to about 150 users due to scalability issues. So it makes more sense for there to be several community run servers, for specific or general purposes. The existing community servers are organized - by geographic region, by special interest, kids or parents or whatever their users like.

To set up your own community or private server, see: Run your own jabber server.


Community Server Directory

If you want to publicize your server, please list it below. In "community", specify who should use this server - be as specific as possible.

Community Servers
server name status community comments
potter-pod.no-ip.biz up Richmond, VA. (any) none
opteron.9grid.us up Austin, TX (any) Austin Area Jabber Collaboration Server
jabber.olpchacks.org up as of 2008-05-22 Chicago, IL (any) OLPC Chicago Jabber Server
chi.il.us.xochat.org up as of 2008-05-22 Chicago, IL (any)
jabber.xo-quebec.org up Montreal, Qc (any) Québec Area Jabber Server(fr)
nejabber.homelinux.org down as of 2008-05-22 New England (any) New England Jabber Collaboration Server Back up and all bugs should be fixed!.
xochat.org up as of 2008-05-22 G1G1 (any) See xochat.org Community Server for more info and regional jabber servers.
school.letschange.org up Bainbridge Island, WA (any) OLPC Seattle/Seattle Area Jabber Collaboration Server. Come join us!
olpc.usjabber.org in progress Open to all US, Server in Vermont US public jabber server. Read our wiki page for more info.
Estimated Date of Server Completion: Friday April 19th (maybe earlier)
dc.olpc.obscure.org | Washington, DC area (any) OLPC D.C. Jabber Server
xochat.de
xo1share.org Up (2008-08-05) Few # users G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region xo1@scishare.com (Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan) Status: xoshare.org/mi
jabber.buddycloud.com up Open to all Jabber server including location based API (http://blog.buddycloud.com/node/1)
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URL to server status who can use it Details


Connecting to a community jabber server

Open Terminal, then type the following commands :

sugar-control-panel -s jabber jabber.server.url

replace jabber.server.url with the jabber server you with to use

then restart Sugar (warning: first close your activities to save them!) by pressing ctrl+alt+erase - then go to the neighborhood view and have fun!


Jabber server activity

XO connections to the servers listed above, on August 8, 2008, 2:00-2:30 PM EST
  • xochat.org - 16
  • school.letschange.org - 3
  • jabber.olpchacks.org - 2
  • dc.olpc.obscure.org - 2
  • xochat.de - 1
  • all others - 0
XO connections to the servers listed above, on July 24, 2008, 12:00-12:30 PM EST
  • xochat.org - 18
  • school.letschange.org - 3
  • xochat.de - 1
  • all others - 0