A cross-platform notification daemon written in Ruby. Can be petitioned by an arbitrary application (local or remote) to activate notification plugins. Plugin examples include a popup dialog, a syslog entry, or an email alert.
An IRCbot specifically designed and made for TeenLUG (ex linuxteens). It is written in Ruby with a MySQL database for logging and programming the bot on the fly. PHP would then be used to access the log via a web based frontend.