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+Taiga events
+============
+
+![Kaleidos Project](http://kaleidos.net/static/img/badge.png "Kaleidos Project")
+[![Managed with Taiga.io](https://taiga.io/media/support/attachments/article-22/banner-gh.png)](https://taiga.io "Managed with Taiga.io")
+
+The Taiga websocket server.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Install the RabbitMQ service.
+
+```bash
+  apt-get install rabbitmq-server
+```
+
+Install the javascript dependencies.
+
+```bash
+  npm install
+```
+
+Install globally the coffeescript interpreter.
+
+```bash
+  sudo npm install -g coffee-script
+```
+
+Copy and edit the config.json file.
+
+```bash
+  cp config.example.json config.json
+```
+
+Then run the taiga events service
+
+```bash
+  coffee index.coffee
+```