Community Call Chat Room

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Creative Commons uses XMPP for instant messaging. Anyone should be able to connect to the CC Community Call chat room from any XMPP account. Note: Google Talk uses XMPP, so anyone with a Gmail account should be set.

The room for the CC Community Call is cc-community-call on conference.jabber.org.

Configuring Your Software

Adium (Mac OS X)

Adium is a multi-protocol IM client for Mac OS X. You can download Adium at http://adium.im/.

You can find instructions for configuring Adium to work with Google Talk at http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48758

Once you have Adium configured to use your Gmail account, to join the chat room:

  1. From File choose Join Group Chat
  2. Select your Gmail account from the drop-down menu
  3. Fill in the following fields:
    • Chat Room Name: cc-community-call
    • Server: conference.jabber.org
    • (Optional) Handle: Your name
  4. Click Join

Google Talk (Windows)

You can download Google Talk at http://google.com/talk.

Pidgin (Linux / Windows)

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Protocol%20Specific%20Questions#XMPPMulti-User-ConferencesChatrooms