Community Jabber Servers

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What is a Jabber Server

A (specially configured) jabber server is used to allow multiple XOs/Sugar instances to connect and collaborate remotely. Imagine that a school in Peru and a school in Canada wanted to collaborate via their XOs. 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
jabber.laptop.org	up	community	Jabber server for OLPC
schoolserver.laptop.org	up	developers	Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers
schoolserver.media.mit.edu	up	developers	Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers
jabber.buddycloud.com	up	Open to all	Jabber server including location based API (http://blog.buddycloud.com/node/1)
jabber.xo-quebec.org	up	Montreal, Qc (any)	Québec Area Jabber Server(fr)
xo1share.org	up	G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region.	xo1@scishare.com (Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan) Status: http://xoshare.org/mi

Connecting to a community jabber server

0Open 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!

Other servers

These servers were down as of last check (2008-10-02).

Community Servers

server name	status	community	comments
potter-pod.no-ip.biz	DOWN	Richmond, VA. (any)
opteron.9grid.us	DOWN	Austin, TX (any)	Austin Area Jabber Collaboration Server
nejabber.homelinux.org	DOWN	New England (any)	New England Jabber Collaboration Server
school.letschange.org	DOWN	Bainbridge Island, WA (any)	OLPC Seattle/Seattle Area Jabber Collaboration Server.
olpc.usjabber.org	DOWN	Open to all US, Server in Vermont	US public jabber server. Read our wiki page for more info.
xochat.de	DOWN
chi.il.us.xochat.org	DOWN	Chicago, IL (any)
xochat.org	DOWN	G1G1 (any)	See xochat.org Community Server for more info and regional jabber servers.
dc.olpc.obscure.org	DOWN	Washington, DC area (any)	OLPC D.C. Jabber Server
jabber.olpchacks.org	DOWN	Chicago, IL (any)	OLPC Chicago Jabber Server

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