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
chw.no-ip.org	Open to all	Location: Romania	chw_server@yahoo.com
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.olpchacks.org	Chicago, IL (any)	OLPC Chicago Jabber Server
potter-pod.no-ip.biz	Richmond, VA. (any)
schoolserver.laptop.org	developers	Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers
schoolserver.media.mit.edu	developers	Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers
xochat.lympago.com	G1G1 (any) Focus: Australia	Jabber server for Australian's and is not affilitated with xochat.org.
xochat.de
xo1share.org	G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region.	Location: Michigan / Site status: http://xoshare.org/mi	xo1@scishare.com
lowballking.net	Open to all	spark IM Client for [Red5 Audio, Video Services]	admin@lowballing.net
letinet.ru	Open to All	Russian server of «LETI» students.	postmaster at mail dot xost|\|ame
shesha.ru	Open to all	Shesha's XMPP Service	art@shesha.ru

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!

Previously-up servers

These servers were down as of last check (2009-03-18).

Community Servers

server name	community	comments
jabber.xo-quebec.org	Montreal, Qc (any)	Québec Area Jabber Server(fr)