Hey,
Here is the solution ! The instructions at
https://riseup.net/chat made me realize I should not attempt to connect to the server but simply add a chat to the server I'm already using (in the Buddy menu). Apparently the more recent versions of Pidgin do not call this a Room but a Chat. And there is no mention of TLS/SSL in the menu but that probably is the default nowadays because ... it worked :-)
Cheers
On 12/31/2017 11:12 AM, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Hi Cody,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated :-)
>
> On 12/31/2017 12:04 AM, Cody Brownstein wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Loic Dachary wrote:
>>> I'd like to attend the next contributor meeting[1] but I failed to connect following the Contributors chat intructions[2] using pidgin. I wonder if there are detailed instructions somewhere, maybe with screenshots ? For instance I'm not sure if I'm supposed to provide a password, should the nick I pick be autoregistered ? It is recommended to use TLS/SSL but the closest approximation I found is "use encryption if available" in the "Advanced" tab. And pidgin only shows "Unable to connect" in the GUI which is not much help to debug the situation ;-)
>>
>> You first need to register an account with an XMPP server. Here's a list
>> of free, public XMPP servers:
>>
>> https://list.jabber.at/
>>
>> Once you've registered an account with an XMPP server, you need to add
>> the account to Pidgin. You can do this by pressing Ctrl+A while in
>> Pidgin. Once your account has been added and you are connected, you
>> should be able to join the "tails-dev" room on the
>> "conference.riseup.net" server.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>
> I already have a dachary@??? account and using it daily. I added the conference.riseup.net (as shown in the screenshot http://dachary.org/loic/a.png)
> and when I try to connect (as shown in the screenshot http://dachary.org/loic/b.png) it says "Host Unknown" (but I also got Unable to connect). The hostname resolves ok on my laptop.
>
> $ getent hosts conference.riseup.net
> 198.252.153.234 xmpp.riseup.net conference.riseup.net
>
> It feels like I'm doing something *completely* wrong :-)
>
> Cheers
>
>
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