It connected to public or privately deployed Jabber/XMPP servers rather than a single closed network.
Independent historical archive · XMPP / Jabber
A chat client built for thinking together.
Coccinella paired open-standard instant messaging with a shared whiteboard—an unusually collaborative idea for its era.
This site documents the former free and open-source desktop client, its features, and the records that remain across software archives. It does not represent the original project team.
Historical software notice. Coccinella is presented here for research and preservation. Do not treat archived installers as current or security-supported software.
3desktop platforms represented
GPLv3license in the FreeBSD port record
1,607deduplicated HTML records reviewed
2007launch year of coccinella.im
Messaging was only half the idea.
The historic project described Coccinella as a cross-platform Jabber/XMPP chat client with a built-in whiteboard. Presence, group chat, file transfer and secure connections formed the foundation; a synchronized canvas made collaboration visible.
“Chat Client With a Built-in Whiteboard”Historic Coccinella “About” page, captured May 2007. Quoted under the site’s CC BY-SA notice.
Participants could move from text chat into a synchronized visual session.
The interface supported direct chat and XMPP Multi-User Chat.
Historic screenshots document Windows, Mac OS X and Linux editions.
Three desktops, one conversation.
The original gallery organized screenshots by operating system. These small surviving thumbnails are reproduced as historical evidence—not as a claim that the software remains supported today.
Windows
Thirteen items were listed in the March 2007 gallery snapshot.
Mac OS X
Twelve items documented the period’s Mac interface.
Linux
Six items showed the client across Linux desktop environments.
Historic paths, kept meaningful.
Core URLs from the former site now lead to new, clearly labelled historical pages. Irrelevant account and forum routes are not recreated.