[Building Sakai] Sakai3 IM and presence capabilities

[Adam Hocek]

Hi Clay,

Thank you for your response and the links you included.  It is helpful to 
see the direction that Sakai3 is going and what has yet to be determined.
It seems that the implications of having an IM gateway could be 
significant in that presence and IM might be shared between trusted 
parties.  Having this in place would also make the application a fully 
functional IM and presence application available to both internal and 
external users.  I do fully appreciate at this time that the issues being 
addressed are based on priority and some of the lower priority issues will 
get addressed at a later time.
Thank you again for your response.

- Adam

Adam Hocek
Information Technology
Marist College
tel: 845-575-3948



From:
Clay Fenlason <khomotso at gmail.com>
To:
Sakai Developers <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>, 
sakai-kernel at googlegroups.com
Date:
03/01/2010 01:11 PM
Subject:
Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai3 IM and presence capabilities
Sent by:
sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org



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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