Much to my non-surprise, someone has already gone and hacked up a crude Wave server using Django and Orbited.

Naturally, it's incomplete, as are the standards it aims to implement, but the author intends for it to evolve into a full implementation. For now, it's apparently suitable for testing gadgets, one of the numerous extension types.

It won't even let you see waves unless you are invited to them, so if you sign up, post your id and I'll add you to my awesome wave. Alternately, invite jedediah@pygowave.p2k-network.org to yours. I'll bring snacks.

Me and the other smart people are tinkering with Wave stuff now. What are you working on? A Twitter mashup? Tsk tsk, and you had such potential.