Jingle Nodes in Campus Party Brazil

Jingle Nodes Project will be presented in Campus Party Brasil in a very special way. Besides the keynote, there will be also 3 Educational workshops where the protocol and current solutions will be discussed in practice:

• Installing an OpenSource IM Server with support for Audio and Video.
• How to customize and adapt a VoIP Client to suit your personal or company needs.
• How to build your own VoIP Client using OpenSource APIs. 

When in Campus Party Brazil make sure you check out the talk about Jingle Nodes and how you can get independence in your daily communication, therefore protected against "digital dictatorship" blocks like the Skype Block in China and Nimbuzz Block in Syria.

Skype Down, the Closed P2P Issue

You may be wondering why Skype is Down if it is a P2P network. That is not hard to answer, it is a closed P2P Network which the Fallback Servers and Main Nodes are entirely dependent on Skype itself. So if something goes wrong with them, there is no real fallback like you would have in a distributed regular P2P network like BitTorrent, UseNet or Jingle Nodes.
The main issue is that only Users from within Skype can share the Routes, but not users on different Networks and Domains like you can do with Jingle Nodes.
Skype official response was that they were creating "mega-super-nodes"? I don't know what does that mean, but I'm sure it still have same single point of failure of the current system. Until Skype don't come up with a Federated System, where providers, services and users can share Routes, they will always suffer from outages. And of course the most affected are the users and business that depends directly on them. Nearly 20 Million Users are suffering from the outage.

Open Standard Free alternatives that can provide reliability and superior quality:

Clients with Jingle Nodes Support:
* Nimbuzz (Mobile and Desktop)
* SIP Communicator (Jitsi) (Desktop)
* OneTeam (Desktop)

Services with Jingle Nodes Support:
* Nimbuzz (Free)
* Talkr.im (Free)

Don't wait for Skype to come up with "hyper-ultra-mega-super-nodes" to migrate to reliable software.

Jingle Nodes Updates

Jingle Nodes will complete 9 months of official Specification published. As suggested by @luissoeiro, I will summit what happened so far.

• Erlang Relay based on exmpp fully compatible with ejabberd and Tigase
• jn_erl_0.1.0.tar.gz
• Openfire Plugin, it is a simple and plug and play Plugin for Openfire
• jingleNodes.jar
• OneTeam client from process-one with full support for Jingle Nodes
• http://oneteam.im/
• Talkr.im a public XMPP Server from process-one with full support for Jingle Nodes
• http://talkr.im/
• Professional Logo contributed by Fernando Lins
• Jingle Nodes Selo.png
• Jingle Nodes Presented in 3 key events and confirmed other
• FOSDEM 2010
• SeaBeyond
• FISL11
• Campus Party Brazil 2011
• SIP Communicator announced Jingle Nodes Support is being added to main Version
• http://sip-communicator.org/
• Special thanks to NLNet that sponsored contributions and ignited the project
• http://www.nlnet.nl/

How to contribute to Jingle Nodes:

• Writing Code and Discuss the Specification - All fixes, patches and suggestions are always welcome (Jingle Nodes Group)
• Talk about the project - Talk about Jingle Nodes simplicity and how it's easier than other alternatives
• Propaganda - Add a Jingle Nodes Image to your Blog or Website (Jingle Nodes Selo.png)
• Write a Tutorial - Describe how you are making use of Jingle Nodes
• Testing and giving feedback - Your opinion matters!