Notes

Similar projects / inspiration

• http://ircanywhere.com
• https://www.waartaa.com
• https://kiwiirc.com
• https://www.irccloud.com
• http://shout-irc.com
• Let's Chat on Sandstorm
• https://gitter.im
• http://chat.stackoverflow.com
• https://chatgrape.com/ (good input field ideas)
• https://moose-team.github.io/friends/
• https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
• https://conversejs.org
• http://qoffee.io
• http://neovim.org (bounties for features)
• http://web.scrollback.io very similar in goals, open-source, claims to be used by a lot of different groups, has funding and appears to be hiring.
• http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/
• http://www.matrix.org/
• https://web.telegram.org

Infrastructure

IRC

• IRCv3 Specifications

Sockethub / node.js

• http://www.jayway.com/2015/04/13/600k-concurrent-websocket-connections-on-aws-using-node-js

ActivityStreams2 & Data Formats

• Exploring data formats

Notifications

Social WG wants to standardize "inboxes"