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 community comments
jabber.laptop.org all Jabber server for OLPC
chi.il.us.xochat.org Chicago, IL (any)
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
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
xo1share.org G1G1 (any) Focus: Great Lakes Region. xo1@scishare.com (Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan) Status: http://xoshare.org/mi
xochat.org G1G1 (any) See xochat.org Community Server for more info and regional jabber servers.


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 hostname 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 status community comments
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
schoolserver.laptop.org down developers Jabber server for OLPC/Sugar developers

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