Non IRC based live chat for collaboration?

[Holt Sorenson]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:37:00AM -0700, Nicole wrote:
>So might anyone be able to recommend an alternative live chat type of
>system where people can freely sign in and out of.  (for instance we
>cannot use skype conference as they have to be invited in)  Would
>prefer something open sourced we would install or some free service.
>(does Google maybe have anything like that,. they seem to have
>everything)

We use Jabber with TLS/SSL:
http://www.jabber.org/

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