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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and apparea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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.
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