Beginning back in November 2000, I devoted a smidge of my copious free time to learning Python via a project I called Peerkat, a P2P version of Meerkat, the O’Reilly Network’s Open Wire Service. About 95% to completion, work stalled around January due to lack of bandwidth :-\ I hope to pick it back up again and release it as Open Source shortly.

Peerkat’s features:

• Simple
• Small Footprint
• Lightweight
• Local
• Extensible
• Powered by RSS 1.0
• Flavourful: HTML, RSS 0.9, 0.9x, and 1.0, AvantGo Optimised, JavaScript (.js) source, …
• Open Source
• 100% Python
• Cross-Platform (Peerkat should run wherever Python does)
• Browser-Independent
• Built on top of a lightweight database
• Uses “off-the-shelf” Open Source components

In the meantime, I thought I’d share a few screen snaps:

• Default (”Home”) View
• Python Stories
• Login
• Filtering Stories
• Editing a Story
• A Moved Story
• Feeds
• Editing a Feed