Kandan - Modern Open Source Chat

The slickest chat app out there. Open-source and well-supported to boot.

Standard Features

These are features that work out of the box on any provider:

• Easy deploy to CloudFoundry, Heroku, dotCloud, etc.
• Collaborative team chat
• Unlimited channels
• Embed formats for images and youtube videos with requests for others (twitter, facebook, g+, etc.)
• Synchronized sound player - play any audio-tag compatible url for the whole channel (Pending :P)
• /me command!
• Highly extensible plugin format
• Your very own robotic companion

Deployment

See DEPLOY.md for information on deploying.

TODO

This is the new home of the issue tracker: See the issue tracker

Get Involved!

That's not a question, it's an order! Or more of a friendly offer, really. Kandan is a fully open-source app, so dive in and start adding features, fixing bugs (what bugs?), and cleaning up the code.

• GitHub issues tracker
• Twitter @kandanapp
• Kandan Demo (Yes we eat our own DogFood)

You can also email us at admin@kandanapp.com

Credits

• Sacha Greif for his amazing design job and exacting implementation standards on Kandan. A wonder and a pleasure to work with.
• Andrew Hampton For the initial manual server install instructions.
• Akash Manohar J For some of the initial work on Kandan
• Thomas Risberg For the Cloud Foundry install instructions and compatibility fixes.

LICENSE

Kandan's code and assets are dual-licensed. Kandan is available generally under the AGPL, and also under a custom license via special agreement. See LICENSE for the AGPL terms, and contact us at admin@kandanapp.com if you're interested in development of Kandan under a custom license.