[Asterisk-Dev] Presence, IM, and the All-Powerful Convergence Buzzword

[John Todd]

Has there been any progress in making IM integration into Asterisk? 
I know this was discussed a while back, but the Google Summer of Code 
results have (confusingly) some FreeBSD project in the "Asterisk" 
section.  I suppose this is more of a status check than a query, 
since the benefits of more complete IM integration have already been 
discussed.

http://code.google.com/soc-results.html

I've longed to see presence within the dialplan, both to set/get 
statuses and send/receive messages from various IM service channels 
via an authenticated meta-user "shim" or natively.  Jabber and SIP 
SIMPLE would be lovely.  I know that there is basic SIMPLE in 
Asterisk now, I think thanks to Olle.  Is this able to be 
bootstrapped into other protocols via a SIMPLE->Jabber->... gateway 
using something like SER?

JT


>[Asterisk-Dev] presence and IM again, want to develop a working "hack"
>  Joshua Colp joshnet at nbnet.nb.ca
>Mon Jul 4 12:13:10 CDT 2005
>
>Greetings,
>
>I'm presently working on Messaging and Presence solutions in Asterisk for
>the Google Summer of Code program. I should have a public site/CVS server so
>people who wish to venture into trying it out can download it soon. As for
>presence itself, cvs head sorta kinda supports it... It's hard to explain.
>
>- Joshua Colp.
>
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