Projects

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.

SILC

The SILC Project develops the Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol, which is designed to provide rich featured conferencing services and high security. The project has been coordinating the protocol development for the past few years and the protocol specifications are available through IETF. ... [More] The goal is to fully standardize the SILC protocol in the IETF. The project also develops the reference implementation of the SILC protocol, both client and server side. For software developers the project has created SILC Toolkit which provides the libraries for third-party developers to integrate SILC support in their products. It's also responsible of coordinating the SILC Network, its development and maintenance, provides users public and free access to SILC network and its services. [Less]

Ibid

Ibid is a multi-protocol general purpose chat bot written in Python. It uses a natural language interface, and can connect to multiple sources, including IRC, Jabber and SILC servers, as well as allowing interaction using SMTP, HTTP and various RPC protocols. It aims to be agnostic with regard to ... [More] how it is used, and to make plugins and extensions as easy as possible to write. [Less]

Silky

The project was launched in summer 2003, motivated by the fact that there was no good graphical SILC client available. There was obvious demand for an easy to use client, as at the time there was only one fully featured client and it was a textual client. First proof-of-concept version of Silky ... [More] was drafted together quickly in couple of days, and it got some people interested in developing a fully featured graphical client. Now, after year and a half and with contributions from many friendly people Silky is starting to look and feel like a real chat client. [Less]

earlbot

earlbot originated as a simple title announcer for urls posted to a silc channel. It has since evolved to include functionality typically found in other common bots like seen, tell, karma etc. earlbot is built upon the excellent pysilc library by Alastair Tse and works with version 0.4, and the current 0.5 release.