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  type="topic"
  id="group-conversations">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/>
    <desc>
      Start a group conversation with your contacts.
    </desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="draft"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
    </copyright>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

  <title>Group conversations</title>
  
  <p>
    Group conversations permits you to have text conversations with more than one
    contact at the same time.
  </p>
  <p>
    To have a group conversation you need to have a registered account with either
    Jabber or Google Talk, or a Salut account.
  </p>
  <note>
    <p>
      You can have a group conversation with contacts that are using the same service
      as yours.
    </p>
  </note>
  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the account you want to use
        for the group conversation.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        In the <gui>Room</gui> text box, type the name you want to give to the conversation.
      </p>
      <note>
        <p>
          This will be the name of the room you are going to have a conversation. This
          name will be publicly available for other people to join. It is not possible
          to create a private room.
        </p>
      </note>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        To invite other contacts to join the group conversation, from the
        <gui>Contact List</gui> window, select the contact you want to invite, 
        and perform one of the following:
      </p>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Right-click on the contact, and select <gui>Invite to chatroom</gui>.
          </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit<gui><gui>Contact</gui><gui>Invite to chatroom</gui></guiseq>.
          </p>
        </item>
      </list> 
      <p>
        If you have more than one group conversation open, select the one you want to invite
        your contacts.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>