What is an open protocol?

What are the benefits of open protocols?

Does using an open protocol mean that my conversations can be seen by anyone?

Why should I use an open protocol?

What open protocols are there? Jabber/XMPP, IRC, email

My friends use other networks (how can I make them switch)?

Examples of people who have switched (darco, etc.)

“Advanced” features: setting mood, user tune.

Are there other uses of Jabber?

• Inkscape whiteboard (Work in progress, "Internal" wiki entry)
• Coccinella whiteboard (Coccinella)
• using Twitter (blog entry)
• Abiword collaboration plugin (Work in progress, 2.6.0 Release notes))

Where can I get help?

#opendiscussion
jabber@conference.jabber.org
opendiscussion@conference.jaim.at

Tutorials

Gajim
	Registering an account
	Joining a room
Pidgin
	Registering an account
	Joining a room
Psi
	Registering an account
	Joining a room
     
     What else?

Tutorial: downloading and installing Gajim Tutorial for Psi 0.11 (quite detailed, maybe too much…), Adium screencasts