Kandan, an Open Source Alternative to HipChat (github.com)

What's the login for the Kandan demo?

Sweet mother of moses... if this is at all close to the stackexchange/serverfault http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/127/the-comms-room chat rooms, I'm all in! Seems like it at least, will have to give it a try.

FWIW, there's a similar chat for ASP.NET/SignalR called Jabbr...does inline images, youtubes, etc https://github.com/davidfowl/JabbR

Are there Mobile apps that connect to this? I use the campfire app all the time

Great work! This is awesome!

Does it speak jabber?

We've been trying this out at my company, it's pretty full-featured already. Now if I could just get all my colleague's on board with the idea of a private company chat.

I recently installed Subway IRC on my server and loving it! https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway If you look web-based IRC client. Its build on Node and Backbone.

Looks awesome! I really love HipChat, but I'd love to be able to really customize it. The local chat room becomes a pretty big part of the company and deserves to have all manner of culture added to it (logo, sounds, etc).

Goes it have GitHub integration out of the box? That is the killer HipChat feature for me. I also like that HipChat will let me upload and link people to files.

Balloons.io (http://balloons.io/) looks pretty similar, and it's open-source as well (https://github.com/gravityonmars/Balloons.IO).

Even if a certain service has more features, I prefer to use the one based on open protocols, and in this case, IRC.

Happy to see Kandan found its second wind! Thanks for all the work you're putting in :)