[Building Sakai] chat in presence

[Ed Garay]

Why do it, though?

Why not simply link to Skype, GoogleTalk or some other full-featured text/video/audio chat tool?  Or write Sakai connectors for some of these tools, with SSO, primarily. 

Just thinking aloud.
Hi Chuck. 

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On May 28, 2010, at 6:45 PM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Chuck,
> 
> I thought about it and when I looked the code over, it felt to me that you could do it all in the presence servlet with a bit of clever Javascript and no persistence.   
> Nice and surgical just use the presense framework as it exists.
> 
> I would probably do a tiny pop-up window rather than a popup iframe.  I would not try to make it a full replacement for the chat tool, hoping that if folks really wanted to talk a long time - they would just use the chat tool.
> 
> Just thinking out loud.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On May 28, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
> 
>> I've heard people talk about this, but I'm not sure what has happened. Is anyone working on a text chat to other people in the site, presumably triggered by clicking on their name in the presence list? I have in mind something like the facebook chat. I'd be inclined to use the infrastructure from chat rooms rather than going outside to another chat server, to avoid having to synchronize accounts with another service.
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