[Building Sakai] Sakai3 IM and presence capabilities

[Clay Fenlason]

Hi Adam:

I'd invite you to play around with a few accounts on the demo server.
[1] You'll discover there implemented capabilities for both chat and
presence for people in your "contacts" list - and yes, outside the
site context. I made a short video (without audio) that points out the
right areas to click on. [2]

This is not exactly the S2 notion of presence, where browsing a site
context makes you visible to other site participants in that context.
Your "contacts" are like a Skype contact list (or friends list) -
people whom you have invited to be a contact, and who have accepted. I
don't think anyone's ruled out evolving this basic design choice as we
go, but for now that's the mechanism.

I'm not aware of concrete plans for IM gateways, but again I don't
think any of the work done thus far has ruled out that possibility or
made it more difficult - it's just not a priority that anyone is
devoting development time to right now.

~Clay

[1] http://3akai.sakaiproject.org/dev.
[2] http://screencast.com/t/OWEzOTM3N2


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Adam Hocek <Adam.Hocek at marist.edu> wrote:
> I would be interested in knowing if there is any ongoing discussion or work
> on the presence capability in Sakai3.  My understanding is that this will be
> based on Apache's Shindig (Opensocial).    I assume presence in Sakai 3 will
> be similar to groups (and resources) and not be within the context of sakai
> sites? Also, would like to find out if support for external instant
> messaging services through gateways are planned?  If anyone has more
> information on this or can point to where I can find out more this would be
> most appreciated.
>
> Adam Hocek
> Information Technology
> Marist College
> tel: 845-575-3948
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