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]

irssi

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

Adium

Unified OS X instant messaging platform

X-Chat

XChat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. It can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.

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]

Konversation

claimed by KDE

Konversation is a user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform.

Colloquy

Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Miranda IM

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda ... [More] IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet. [Less]

Lisppaste

Lisppaste is a pastebot / pastebin / nopaste service with syntax highlighting, XML-RPC support, annotations, and more. It provides 172 channels on the Freenode IRC network with a place to share logs, code snippets, example solutions, patches, and more, and it doesn't erase history over time.

CIA

CIA is a system for tracking open-source projects in real-time over the Web or IRC. Developers can see the latest changes to their code immediately, users can subscribe to see the latest bugfixes in their favorite programs.