Jabber Australia

Milestone reached: Five thousand registered users - Thursday 22nd December, 2005

Jabber Australia this week reached a milestone of five thousand registered users. Of these, over 2,155 have been active in the past 30 days.

See forum discussion for details.

Google embraces Jabber - Wednesday 24th August, 2005

Today Google launched it's Jabber based instant messaging service. This is great news for open standards and already their service can be used with a wide range of Jabber clients. However, at this stage, it's still not certain if Google will open up interoperability with existing Jabber servers such as jabber.org.au.

See our media release for details.

iChat, contributing and forum feeds - Sunday 22nd May, 2005

You will no doubt have heard that iChat now has Jabber support (starting with Mac OS X Tiger). This is great news because it means that many people will have a computer that comes with Jabber support that's built right in. We have written detailed instructions on how use jabber.org.au with iChat. Even if you're not using a Mac, be sure to pass it onto your Mac using friends and encourage them to sign up to Jabber!
http://www.jabber.org.au/ichat

We are always looking for people to help us make jabber.org.au even better than it is. There are many ways you can help, including regularly visiting the forums (see also RSS feed below), contributing content for our web-site and programming. However, if you don't have time for any of this, we can now also receive donations. For details, see the contribute page.

We now offer an RSS feed for the forums. Be sure to subscribe to this feed so you can be up-to-date with all the latest Jabber Australia news, tips and other advice. Keeping up with the forums is also a great way to contribute and further build a community feeling at jabber.org.au.
http://www.jabber.org.au/forums/syndicate.rss

Comments on any of these topics can be made in the forums.

New Dedicated Server - Tuesday 1st February, 2005

Ilisys Web Hosting have kindly provided us with this brand new dedicated server. Having a dedicated server will help greatly with improving reliability and with bringing you many great new features.

So please don't forget to support our sponsor by considering their services when possible. Also don't forget to sign your friends up with Jabber on this great new server! For further details see the forum announcement.

More server fixes applied - Monday 27th December, 2004

We're still at it. You had probably noticed the annoying problems where you'd attempt to sign in, but get a message back saying you're not authorised. Yet 2-3 attempts later, you find that it works. Well we've nailed this one right on the head. As it turns out, the database was dropping connections after 10 minutes of inactivity. To work around this, we've modified the server code to connect as an interactive client giving us an idle timeout of 8 hours instead. Since then, we've had not one mysql error.

In addition we've patched our s2s code so that communication with other people on Jabber servers is even more reliable.

MSN Transport now here - Monday 20th December, 2004

Clearing the IM muddle It has finally happened! Jabber Australia now has an MSN transport so you'll be able to talk to all your friends/family this Christmas. This will work in all jabber clients that support service discovery.

See forums for details on how to use the MSN Transport.

Stuck behind a firewall? - Friday 17th December, 2004

Jabber.org.au is now accepting connections on port 443. This means that you can now use Jabber through any proxy server that allows net banking and other secure web transactions.

For more details, see the forum announcement.

Please be aware of any applicable policies at your company before using this feature.

Jabber in the media - Tuesday 2nd March, 2004

PCAuthority published a great article written by Leigh Dyer. For details, see forum post.

Server goes live - Friday 21st November, 2003

As of yesterday the jabber.org.au server has gone live for public use. Simply register for the forums (if you haven't already) and then login to the server using a standard jabber client. For further details see the forum announcement.

Media coverage:

Forums have arrived - Tuesday 7th October, 2003

We now have our new forums online. Thanks to all who have helped so far, including Ilysys who are providing our hosting. We welcome your comments and enquiries, so post away!

New hosting arrangement - Monday 11th August, 2003

It has taken some time to negotiate and sort out details. However, we are now pleased to announce that we have taken up the offer to host with Ilisys Web Hosting. This means that forums will be on their way shortly, followed by our public Jabber server.

New site is online! - Wednesday 18th June, 2003

The news system will be making an appearance soon after we get our new web server sorted out. We have meetings with potential sponsors this week, so this will hopefully be soon.

We make the news - Tuesday 10th June, 2003

Today we were featured in The Age newspaper in Melbourne (the same article also appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald). Soon after, this coverage was also followed up by Slashdot, a popular US based website that mainly focuses on computer related news. We are now in the public spotlight which should further assist our progress with advocating Jabber to the Australian public. Additionally we were also featured in LinMagAu, ensuring that our presence is known throughout the technical community.

Jabber Australia now official - Monday 26th May, 2003

We've just been incorporated in Melbourne, that means we are now an official organisation! This puts a face to Jabber and open instant messaging in Australia. As a small group of enthusiasts, we now strive to work harder in promoting Jabber in Australia. Register your interest now so that we can get the server up sooner!