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?

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

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

Are there other uses of Jabber? (Inkscape whiteboard (Work in progress, "Internal" wiki entry), 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?