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## About

![Spectrum 2 animation](animation.gif)




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<h3>What is Spectrum 2?</h3>
Spectrum 2 is an Generic transport/gateway.
It supports multiple frontends like XMPP or Slack and can transport messages using these
frontends to wide range of different networks such as such as ICQ, XMPP (Jabber, GTalk),
AIM, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, or IRC.

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Spectrum 2 is written in C++ and uses the [Swiften](http://swift.im/swiften) library and various different libraries for "legacy networks".
Spectrum 2 is open source and released under the GNU GPL.

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Spectrum 2 is not intended for strictly desktop users, ie those who have no familiarity with running server side applications.  It is intended to provide a service to desktop users, but be managed by server administrators.  If you are interested in the project but have no familiarity with running a server (and no interest in learning), please speak with your local system administrators about making Spectrum 2 available.

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## Technical details