LysKOM
The conferencing system of Lysator
(in Swedish)
LysKOM is a conferencing system, or a kind of electronic bulletin
board system. It is one of the most important means of communcation
within Lysator.
The LysKOM system is made up of a server and several
clients. The most mature client is currently Elisp-client.
Information
Clients
There are several clients. Here are a short description of most of them.
- The Emacslisp-client
The client itself can be configured to use English or Swedish. This
client runs inside Emacs.
- WinKOM,
a client for Windows.
- The TTY client
(in Swedish). This is a command-line oriented client. It
attempts to closely mimic KOM v6, which was our inspiration
when LysKOM was developed.
- JySKom, a
WWW-based client.
- KLC, Kimmo's
Lyskom Client, a client for Windows (in English, Finnish and
Swedish).
- Pike's Lyskom-module
contains a client-side implementation of protocol A to be used in
Pike-programs like LysKOM bots.
- Python-modul, is a similar
Python-module.
- WebKOM, a WWW-based client.
Servers
There are a lot of LysKOM-servers in the world. Many of them are not
public, but this is a list of the most known public servers that
anyone can use. LysKOM-servers don't seem to have their own web-pages
very often, but you can always login, create a new membership and list
their conferences and read some texts to get a grip about what kind of
KOM it is.
Here are some of the servers. Your client may know many more servers.
- kom.lysator.liu.se is the biggest LysKOM-server with
Swedish as default language. Here is the place to look for very odd
conferences and there are also some conferences in other languages.
Located in Linköping, but is mostly not a local LysKOM-server.
Short-name: LysKOM (No more, no less)
- com.lysator.liu.se is the international LysKOM-server
with English as default language at Lysator.
- com.helsinki.fi is Finsh-speaking and located in
Helsinki. Short-name: (Older: HelKOM)
- community.roxen.com is English-speaking and
concentrated around Roxen and
Pike.
- kom.stacken.kth.se is Swedish-speaking and located in
Stockholm. Short-name: TokKOM
- kom.cd.chalmers.se is Swedish-speaking and located in
Gothenburg (Göteborg). Short-name: CD-KOM
- kom.update.uu.se is Swedish-speaking and located in
Uppsala. Short-name: CSD-KOM
- kom.ludd.luth.se is Swedish-speaking and located in
Lund, Sweden. Short-name: LuddKOM
Server source code
The source code for the LysKOM-server is available under GNU GPL.