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. Please add a sysadmin contact email address so we can bug you when it's down...

Community Servers

server name	community	comments	sysadmin contact
jabber.laptop.org	all	Jabber server for OLPC
dc.olpc.obscure.org	Washington, DC area (any)	OLPC D.C. Jabber Server (now back up after some downtime)
jabber-hispano.org	Hispana	Servidor jabber de la Comunidad Hispana
jabber.buddycloud.com	Open to all	Jabber server including location based API (http://blog.buddycloud.com/node/1)
jabber.xo-quebec.org	Montreal, Qc (any)	Québec Area Jabber Server(fr)
potter-pod.no-ip.biz	Richmond, VA. (any)
schoolserver.media.mit.edu	developers	Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers
xochat.lympago.com	G1G1 (any) Focus: Australia	Not affilitated with xochat.org.
xochat.de
xo1share.org	G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region.	xo1@scishare.com (Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan) Status: http://xoshare.org/mi

Connecting to a community jabber server

Latest version (8.2)

Use the graphical Control Panel to set the Mesh (aka Jabber) server to one from the server name column in the table above.

Older versions (Pre-8.2)

1. Open Terminal

2. Type the following command:

sugar-control-panel -s jabber jabber.laptop.org

replace jabber.laptop.org with the jabber server you with to use

3. Restart Sugar (warning: first close your activities to save them!) by pressing ctrl+alt+erase

4. Go to the neighborhood view and have fun!

Other servers

These servers were down as of last check (2008-11-08).

Community Servers

server name	community	comments
chi.il.us.xochat.org	Chicago, IL (any)
opteron.9grid.us	Austin, TX (any)	Austin Area Jabber Collaboration Server
jabber.olpchacks.org	Chicago, IL (any)	OLPC Chicago Jabber Server
nejabber.homelinux.org	New England (any)	New England Jabber Collaboration Server
school.letschange.org	Bainbridge Island, WA (any)	OLPC Seattle/Seattle Area Jabber Collaboration Server.
olpc.usjabber.org	Open to all US, Server in Vermont	US public jabber server. Read our wiki page for more info.
schoolserver.laptop.org	developers	Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers
xochat.org	G1G1 (any)	See xochat.org Community Server for more info and regional jabber servers.

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