Recently I’ve come across a ruby irc server called camper_van. What it
does is pretty simple: it communicates with Campfire while acting as an
IRC server. That, combined with irssi makes it much more fun to use
Campfire for work.
The following is a simple script that starts the server (if not already running) and then opens up irssi in a new gnome-terminal session.
The second file is an example irssi config file (merge it with
~/.irssi/config).