Phergie is not a traditional framework, more of a modular application with
many libraries that you can combine to bring different features into an IRC
bot. It's used to build IRC daemons in the same way that web frameworks are
used to build web applications. Features (Plugins) are their own
While I agree that Joe would bring value to the group, I'm not sure Phergie
does. (Nothing personal, and I could very well be missing something)
Meaning, as an interpretability group where does Phergie fit? Is it a framework
or library that would be used by other frameworks or libraries? Does
I am Joe Ferguson (Proposed voting representative), Co-maintainer of the
Phergie IRC bot project, former FIG Secretary.
Phergie has been around since 2008 and is currently stable at Version 3.
Phergie is an open source IRC bot written in PHP. She was originally
written to replace the Ai bot in
