Projects

Pidgin

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can log in to multiple ... [More] accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. [Previously known as "Gaim".] [Less]

Adium

Unified OS X instant messaging platform

Kopete IM Client (KDE)

claimed by KDE

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are plugins and allow modular installation, configuration, and usage without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being loaded. The goal of Kopete is to ... [More] provide users with a standard and easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin on. [Less]

BitlBee

A chat network to IRC gateway. Currently supports most common IM protocols (plus Twitter microblogging), or all protocols supported by libpurple.

Eclipse Communication Framework

claimed by Eclipse Foundation

ECF is a framework for building communications functions into Eclipse-based tools and applications. It can be used to create other plugins, tools, or full applications that require asynchronous point-to-point or publish-and-subscribe messaging. ECF is also a small set of applications for ... [More] real-time developer communication, including instant messaging, file sharing, and real-time collaboration. [Less]

ekg2

Plugin based multi-IM communicator. ncurses or gtk2 (in progress) based GUI. Support for different protocols: irc, jabber (including gmail), gg (gadu-gadu largest polish IM), tlen, nntp (read only).

CenterIM

CenterIM is a fork of CenterICQ, an ncurses-based IM client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Live Journal, IRC, RSS and Jabber protocols

galaxium

Galaxium is an instant messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop. It will allow you to connect to MSN (and other protocols through the use of addins) to communicate with your family, friends and co-workers! It is a cross-platform application that uses the Mono and GTK# toolkits for the ... [More] user interface and protocol handlers. Several plugins are also in the works to bring advanced features like Adium Theme support. [Less]

ayttm

Ayttm is an open source, multi-protocol instant messenger. It is built using C and Gtk-2 and works across multiple platforms.

Saikound

Saikound is a modular and easy configurable psyc 1.0 server. It will have numerous interfaces (xmpp, psyc, irc) as well as a fancy web-interface, supporting social-network features, similar to facebook and the lot, but in a decentralized federated manner. Additionally, it will be able to act as ... [More] client for several protocols, so that a user can connect with anything she wants to the server and the server connects (or stays connected) to any other service she wants. [Less]