<div>We may want to consider a Jabber or XMPP Client which, due to its open nature, can integrate with other popular "brand name" Jabber clients that users may use/be familar with anyways such as GTalk, Trillian or iChat. There are also quite a few Mobile and Web clients which promote greater access.</div>
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<div>Tracy<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear Ginger / Jeremy</font>
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<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">IRC is OK, but not everyone finds it friendly, for one reason or another. I looked for opensource chat software and found one or two that can be embedded in the IGF website or in a new collaborative portal. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">One interesting web application that I found is phpfreechat which can be easily integrated into Joomla. There are other possible options.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">I tested it by installing it within my website and this is what it installs well.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">This is a test installation in an available webspace: </font><a href="http://turiya.co.in/ign/" target="_blank">http://turiya.co.in/ign/</a></div>
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<div>We can have one chat interface such as this with multiple, multilingual rooms + a forum/discussion space, a document editing interface etc... </div>
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<div><font color="#888888"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sivasubramanian M<br></font></font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ginger Paque <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com" target="_blank">gpaque@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font face="Verdana">Great resource, thanks Jeremy. I used to use IRC, but not lately. I will give it another try.<br><br>Shiva, perhaps you would like to take charge of this, as it is a large, separate project.<br>
<br>For the moment, if anyone wants to join the Skype remote moderators' conversation that we already have implemented, please send me your Skype ID by private email, and I will add you.<br><br>Shiva, we will watch for your suggestions. Thanks so much!!!<br>
<br>Best, Ginger<br></font>
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<div><br>On 9/7/2010 7:00 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<div><font face="Verdana">Does anyone else have a solution/technique they use or suggest to implement this communication?<br></font></div></blockquote><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,35,163)"><br></span>
<div><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,35,163)">Yes, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), the oldest but still most widely-used Internet chat protocol, and - unlike Skype - an open, non-proprietary standard.</span></div>
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<div><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,35,163)">The official IGF IRC channel is #igf on the Freenode network (ie. <a href="http://chat.freenode.net/" target="_blank">chat.freenode.net</a>). Language-specific channels #igf-fr, #igf-es etc. also exist, and anyone can request the administrator (me) to set up channels with special features such as moderation. </span></div>
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<div><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,35,163)">Free IRC clients are available for every computing platform (just search Google), and a Web based interface is also available at <a href="http://igf-online.net/chat.php" target="_blank">http://igf-online.net/chat.php</a>.</span></div>
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<div><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,35,163)">This facility has been available since 2007, but there are usually only a small group of us online. This year I'd like to see many more, so please join in! You'll find it a much more pleasant alternative to Skype.<span> </span></span></div>
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