From:	 Stan Reichardt <stan@mail.sluug.org>
To:	 lwn-lug@lwn.net
Subject: St. Louis Linux Users Group - 16 Aug 2001
Date:	 Sun, 29 Jul 2001 11:13:34 -0500

      Event Title: St. Louis LUG

Brief Event Description: Jabber - Mature Instant Messaging Software for Linux

       Start Date: 16 Aug 2001
         End Date: 16 Aug 2001

Event Description:

Over the past few years, instant messaging (IM) has grown from a small
niche market to the latest "must-have" technology. While IM competition
between the big companies like Microsoft, Yahoo! and America Online has
grown quite fierce, the open source community has remained strangely
quiet. Without the open source community pushing for a standardization of
IM protocol, the numerous competitors have kept their developments highly
proprietary. While recent developments have prodded key players to pay lip
service to standardization, the fruits of these efforts remain to be
seen. Without a major open source project to uphold the standards and
promote cooperation, users are left to the whims of large, faceless
companies, interoperability flounders and outside development is
non-existent.
         
Enter Jabber. Jabber is a completely open source, cross platform,
feature rich, developer friendly, standards compliant IM platform. By
upholding the standards of groups such as the IETF IMPP group, as well as
creating a "translation" system between IM networks, Jabber promotes
increased progress and frees users from negotiating which platform to use
so they can focus on the point of IM: communication. *

* From Jabbercentral.com - "The New Face Of Instant Messaging" by Eliot
Landrum and Thomas Charron.
                   
Speaker: Matthew Porter, Demand Management, Inc.

Meetings of the St. Louis Linux User Group (LUG) are held from
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM every THIRD THURSDAY of each month.  Meetings
are free and open to everyone.

      Event URL: www.stllinux.org/
     Event Type: LUG Meeting
 
 Building/Venue: Indian Trails Branch Library, 8400 Delport Dr.(at Midland)
           City: Venita Park 
 State/Province: Missouri
            Zip: 63114-5904
        Country: US

    Sponsor Org: St. Louis Unix Users Group
Sponsor Org URL: www.sluug.org

   Contact Name: Craig Bucheck
  Contact email: craig@buchek.com
  Contact phone: 314-426-5780
    Contact FAX: None