[Xastir] Question/suggestion

[Ken Koster]

Obviously there's a bunch of jabber users on here :-)

On Thursday 15 August 2002 06:23, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> Someone needs to put in an "Instant" fix
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> > I dunno.  This is all starting to sound like some sort of gaim to me...

> > Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> > > Get Everybuddy to run Everybuddy

> > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
...
> > >>But what would this require for msging for Xastir? Would each Xastir
> > >>user have to run jabberd? The simplicity of a jabber client depends on
> > >>the concept of the client only connecting to a jabber server and then
> > >>the *server* is what connects to all the various other IM systems for
> > >>interoperability.
> > >>
> > >>The idea of having each Xastir user running a jabber server is not very
> > >>appealing to me. Likewise, having a central jabber server for Xastir
> > >>users kind of makes an internet connection a requirement and is not a
> > >>good thing.

I admit that when the idea popped into my head I hadn't given a lot of
thought to implementation details.  I certainly wouldn't expect each user
to run jabberd.  I was more or less thinking along the lines of a system
where Xastir was running headless (something we don't do yet) with
a jabber transport providing a connection to it's messaging abilities.
I hadn't thought much beyond that.

How's this for a possibility.  The jabber APRS transport allows a user to
register and every registered and connected user is broadcast by Xastir
as having a location with ambiguity of that of the Xastir station.  Or 
another possibility would be for the registered user to provide a location
that would be broadcast by Xastir for him.

You could then view positions with a web browser, and message using any
jabber client.

Ken,  N7IPB