B. Mann Consulting

I have the great pleasure to announce Pretzel -- a Jabber server written in Python on the Twisted framework.

The two main authors are Ralph Meijer, well known as a long time member of the Jabber community, and Andy Smith, hacker extraordinaire.

For now, Andy checked in some experimental code hosted on Google's new code repository. Check it out at http://code.google.com/p/pretzel/. We're looking for other people to join in -- one of the reasons we started the project was because it seemed there were a lot of people looking for the same thing. It is available under the MIT license to make it potentially usable by the broadest number of people, as well as being under the same license as Twisted.

Please join us on the pretzel-dev list and we'll get the discussion going. 

What's on the roadmap? Well, this is a very early release -- more of a proof of concept. We hope to enable the quick and easy implementation of various JEPs, making it fun and simple to add all sorts of powerful features to the server and clients, truly showing how Jabber can go way beyond "just" instant messaging.

Do you speak snake? A Jabber server written on the Python Twisted framework.

This is a new project of mine/Bryght's. I've long been an advocate for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. Now, I'm hoping to give something back plus form a community around a new jabber server daemon. For now, just redirects to a wiki where we'll organize and add some more details. Feel free to add "like to have" or other ideas of what you want to see out of a new Python-based jabberd.

Update: we changed the name to Pretzel. There is currently a placeholder project up at Google Code Hosting: Pretzel Server 

The Jabber guys are planning world domination with us here at BarCamp Amsterdam. Ralph is keeping the secret pretty close to his chest, but we've got it pretty well sketched out: our session is at 14:30 today in the kitchen

Apparently, Drupal isn't ranking highly in searches for "PHP CMS", so I'm doing some links to help with that. Funny thing is, searching for Broken CMS ends up pointing to a Drupal-powered site...but it has links to Typo3, XOOPS, and PHPWCMS. Yeah, we laughed.

I'm hoping that James will commit his Jabber module today, so that we can kick the tires on it. Of course, the ejabberd server already runs their community site on Drupal. We had a little bit of a discussion about have a new jabberd server that has some of the attributes of ejabberd -- distributed, fault-tolerant, etc. -- except, not written in a not very widely supported language like erlang. Python and the Twisted networking framework sound like good choices.