On Wed Oct 26 17:30:04 2011, John C Klensin wrote:
As others have pointed out, that doesn't solve the "water
cooler" problem. It would probably require some rethinking of
how we handle BOFs, WG creation, and other tasks.
Creating a virtual water cooler is possible - XMPP chatrooms do
provide this pretty well - but there's a cultural shift required that
requires effort to put into place.
I think we could probably get this going to some degree if we [for
any value of we] simply stated that we'd hang about in the relevent
chatrooms. For me (being a woolly apps kind of guy) that'd presumably
be hallway(_at_)jabber(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org and apparea(_at_)jabber(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org - I note
there's even people in the latter.
Any reasonable XMPP client will include support for automatically
joining chatrooms. For anyone here interested, it's "Bookmarks" -
XEP-0048, typically stored in XEP-0049, for which you'll need
server-side support - GTalk won't quite cut it, I'm afraid.
These things need a critical mass - a solid group of regulars in the
chatroom who're willing to basically hang around and chat - but it's
possible, and - I think - worthwhile whatever we do. So I've just
bookmarked said rooms with auto-join to see what happens.
Dave.
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