Who wants to look after the metachat backend? (phooar) Wanted: PHP / MySQL coder with time on their hands, Blogging engine experience, basic knowledge of Linux, and the ability to unscramble PHP spaghetti. →[More:]

Following on from this discussion, it'd be nice to get an idea of those people who would like to / are capable of taking over the administration of metachat.

The codebase is a much hacked version of b2evolution, and to be honest, it's a bit of a nightmare. You'll find no easy separation of functionality or MVC patterns here.

At an absolute minimum, there's little that has to be done. I run a periodic mySQL backup from the server onto my local machine, but everything else is taken care of. You might need to reboot the server every now and again. When the current hosting runs out, you might need to move the software or take over the current account.

There's also a lot that could be done. Uservoice has a list you could get started on. Plus - There are still a few SQL statements that cause the server to slowdown / take too many resources.

I said that I'd provide a sanitized dump of the metachat source code and data for perusing, so here it is.
Source code [3MB zipped]
Data [61MB zipped]
If you've got any problems with the data being there - Please tell me (here or by email).

Please comment in this thread if you can do this, if you want to do this, or if you'd like to vote for / nominate someone to do this. Thanks.

edit:One thing you may need to know in order to get the software running. We redirect 404 errors to error.php. This means that pretty urls like metachat.org/recent do not use mod_rewrite, they use this redirection to error.php.