[GRLUG] GRLUG meeting topic discussion

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XMPP is a very good answer.  I have used Jabber but wasn't aware of XMPP - I'll have to look into that.  Are there regional or global servers or can I host that on a server off my own laptop?  I used Jabber with another group I was in and the connections were brokered through their server.
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From: Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> 

> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:24 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: 
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:51 AM, wrote: 
> > > I have a strong interest in Agile Software development and therefore I would 
> like to learn how to be able to collaborate across the net. My laptop has a 
> built in camera, and if it didn't there are those little USB things, and ports 
> to plug in a head set so I would like to stream audio and video and share my 
> desktop with a specific individual so that we could 'pair' program. 
> > VNC and voice chat is probably more appropriate; IME, when you're team 
> > coding, you're looking at code, not each other. 
> 
> All the collaborative coding I've done has been using XMPP; most other 
> tools end up being more in the way than they help. I've used Ekiga a 
> few times, but always found that coding while someone is talking at you 
> isn't very comfortable/productive. 
> 
> The only thing I've ever missed is some kind of whiteboard and the 
> ability to automatically log my chat logs into the project repository or 
> related groupware server. 
> 
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