plum works as personal proxy, stationing, logging, and bot program on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). It has many modules, so the user can use a lot of functions. It is also easy to customize its configurations. Note that its documents are only available in Japanese.

SPD stands for SPatial Distortion. Written in C language, this command-line driven program deals with images coming from X-ray diffusion/diffraction experiments. It does subsequently: *intensity corrections (dark current, flat field correction, ...), *geometry corrections using spline files or a pair of distortion arrays, *azimuthal integration in 2D or 1D after maskin defective pixels. SPD was originally written by Jorg Klora for ESRF and was re-written by Peter Boesecke. Maintenance and packaging of the program are provided by Rainer Wilcke and Jerome Kieffer from software group at ESRF.

Fnotifystat periodically dumps out the activity on files in the system. It can be used to identify rogue file activity and discover which processes are performing open/close/read/write operations on the files.

JSONBOT is a remote event-driven framework for building bots that talk JSON to each other over XMPP. This distribution provides bots built on the JSONBOT framework for console, IRC, XMPP for the shell and WWW, and XMPP for the Google App Engine. A plugin infrastructure can be used to write your own functionality.