How to link IRC and Google Talk?

I am looking for a way to lin开发者_StackOverflowk IRC to Google Talk.

At the moment we use Partychatapp for google talk and we'd like to find a way to migrate to using IRC.

The vision is to have everyone in an IRC room and we'd be able to have a google talk bot people could use to talk to the room.

Does anything like this exist?

You want bitlbee. It looks like an IRC server to IRC clients and gateways to other IM protocols.

I wrote an application that does exactly this: https://github.com/PaulFreund/I2X Multiple Users use it on a daily base and there are Ideas to expand it further.

At the moment it logs on to a XMPP account and to an IRC channel, and translates between the two. It works as-is without problems but could be better, if there were more users I probably had more interrest in developing it further.

I played with bitlbee a few years ago. Unless it's changed, it's not actually an IRC server, it just pretends to be one. It provides an irc-flavored proxy to the jabber server, so you can use your favorite IRC client to connect to a jabber server via bitlbee.