[FM Discuss] FM Transmission / web chat, irc gateway /

[Anne Gentle]

Oh good grief this is cool. You are far too modest! Thanks so much for
working on this, it will help so much with remote collaborators for the
Firefox book sprint. We have 14 remote writers (when you include me and when
you are superstitious about the number 13, ha ha). And, we even have a
volunteer illustrator!

Thanks Aco, too cool.
Anne


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Aleksandar Erkalovic <aerkalov at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi,
>
> so we talked in amsterdam about our current chat system and how to improve
> it.
> also, adam started to bitch more and more so i decided to play a bit
> with what i was talking
> about (twisted framework and some of the things i did before). so i
> decided to send
> this to discuss and not just the tech list so more people could think
> about the new
> system.
>
> anywho, FM Transmission (drum rolls please) is so far just a demo but
> i look into it
> as a foundation for our future chat system. because of some technical
> issues (and my
> lack of time) it is not so easy to just switch it with current chat
> but will try to do something
> for the Firefox sprint.
>
> if you go to web page http://www.binarni.net:8080/htdocs/ you will get
> web interface
> for the chat. chat is connected with irc channel #flossmanuals
> (irc.freenode.net server).
> so it does not matter if you are using your favorite irc client or web
> browser anymore.
> you can go to irc and web page at the same time, try to chat and see
> how it looks like.
> on the irc channel side, irc bot called "fm" is sending the messages
> for the web users.
> we have _one_ irc user for _many_ web users. chat supports just the
> basic messages
> (user join, user left, public message send to channel) but other
> things will come very soon.
>
> system is adapted to flossmanuals, but it will be easy to use it
> together with other
> twiki systems or separately. small trivia.... "transmission" is title
> of joy division song.
>
> this chat system is something i wanted to implement some 6 years ago
> for the wiki
> system i was developing in mi2 so i have lots of ideas and some
> thoughts what it could
> have. soooo...
>
>   soon to be implemented
>   --------------------------------
>      - authentification will go trough the twiki system. guest
> users... will think of something.
>         right now users get names according to template Guest+<number>
>      - other messages and events. no private messages for now between
> web and irc.
>      - right now we sync every 5 seconds but i plan to implement full COMET
>        communication that will enable web clients to get messages
> immediately.
>
>   will be implemented
>   --------------------------
>      - we will have smaller version and full size client
>      - more then one channel. so each "book" can have a seperate
> public channel for instance
>      - private messages between users
>      - file attachments. once uploaded other users (web and irc) will
> be able to download it
>      - notifications from the flossmanuals on the channel. for
> instance "user XY has changed
>        the status of the book Inkscape to 'published'". basicly info
> that is usefull to people
>        during the sprint...
>      - history/logs of the conversations. can be browsable trough the
> web and can be
>        saved as a wiki page or something
>      - gateways to other networks except irc. would be cool to be
> notified on some other network that people
>        have comed for the sprint and etc... twisted has support for
> some protocols but i am not so sure
>        how popular are some of them today.
>      - plugin system (text formaters, filters...)
>
> so, please test it a bit. think about it. think what would you like to
> see, what you think we should implement
> and tell me. be aware this is just 0.0.10 version :) also, be aware i
> will start and stop the service without
> warning.
>
> Aco
>
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Anne Gentle
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