Over the last few days, I've been working on setting up an XMPP server. I wrote to solderpunk about it, and it will be added to the circumlunar-verse as xmpp.circumlunar.space. Accounts will be made available to all shell users at the zaibatsu and the republic. This is a regular XMPP server, so you can communicate with anyone with an XMPP/Jabber account anywhere. But the server will also provide some unique features: your account will come with a list of circumlunar.space users and a chatroom available only to members of the circumlunar.space community. I think -- but I'm not sure yet -- that we'll have members request accounts via the internal mail. More on that later... I've been following everyone's adventures closely: tfurrows and the Handera, Jynx and the mysterious mp3 player, slugmax's expanding republic, and a whole lot of N900 stuff by xiled. I wanted one, didn't get it because of the weird space bar placement, then bought a BlackBerry Passport with weird space bar placement. Go figure. As a gadgeteer, I have to say that I love gopherspace. :)