Jabber servers/xochat.org
XOchat.org community server was one of the first public community servers available. There were regularly 80 users online.
To setup your XO, open the terminal activity and type:
% sugar-control-panel -s jabber xochat.org
Restart Sugar/X (ctrl-alt-erase) and you will connect to the jabber server.
Regional Chat servers
Sometimes the XO will slow down if there are too many users connected to the same server. We have set up xo chat to have various regional servers.
To add a regional server in your area, send a wikimail to Harper Reed
Chicago, Il USA
% sugar-control-panel -s jabber chi.il.us.xochat.org
Germany
% sugar-control-panel -s jabber xochat.de
About
The XOchat.org community server was created by Tom Hoffman. It is now hosted by Harper Reed The XOchat.de community server was created by Caspar Clemens Mierau and Anselm Helbig.
Mixing OLPC and non-OLPC clients
Sometimes it can be very useful to mix OLPC and non OLPC xmpp clients. An easy way to do so is register with any XMPP client and then sent the following IQ:
<iq type="set" id="18" from='dirkx@xochat.org'>
<pubsub xmlns="http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub">
<publish node="http://laptop.org/xmpp/buddy-properties">
<item>
<properties xmlns="http://laptop.org/xmpp/buddy-properties">
<property type="str" name="ip4-address">X.Y.Z.Z</property>
<property type="bytes" name="key">AAAAB3Nz....WiHx5Rqfg=</property>
<property type="str" name="color">#00bF00,#a0000</property>
</properties>
</item>
</publish>
</pubsub>
</iq>
This lets Sugar pick you up. Where X.Y.Z.Z. is your IP address; the Key is just about anything (but take the key from your ~/.ssh/*.pub file to stay within the spirit) and the colours are the usual RGB triples; one for the inside and one for the outside (i.e. the example is dark green with dark red.