<span class="q"> I've been reading the wiki discussions on a distributed chat network for a little while, and I recently came across something that I though you guys might be interested in.<br><a href="http://cspace.in"><br>
CSpace</a> (<a href="http://cspace.in/trac/wiki/CSpacePlatform">project page</a>) is an python based, open-source, secure, decentralized communications platform that supports chat, file transfer, and remote desktop, and overall seems incredibly similar to the "wishlist" of what has been discussed for a decentralized chat network.
<br><br>Not really sure if this is what you are looking for, but I hope it might be useful somehow.<br><br>-Chris</span>