CBA is a information service which supports and simplifies organising conferences especially focusing on netwoking and expert-finding for participants.
LAG is meant to be a replacement for GAIM. It will be built modularly in C/C++ and Python with front-ends for GTK, ncurses, Win32, Cocoa, and possibly more. It will support many chat protocols like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, and MSN.