Rewriting the client sounds like an awful task, but it might be necessary. I think I liked wave, but really have no interest in trying to get that online. If it was a stack I knew ( Rails ) or a stack I knew would be nice to use ( Flask, Node ) I might be interested in getting a copy online and maybe contributing.

Just for curiosity's sake, let's say I wanted to write a REALLY bare-bones Wave client. Like, maybe just doing text-only waves, maybe not even real time. How hard would that be?