Overview
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RapidSMS is a Free and Open Source framework for developing short message-based
applications.

  * RapidSMS is a messaging development framework, in the same way that
    Django or Rails are web development frameworks.

  * RapidSMS is designed to do the heavy lifting for you. You implement your
    application logic, and RapidSMS takes care of the rest.

  * RapidSMS is designed specifically to facilitate building applications
    around mobile SMS.

  * ... but it supports pluggable messaging backends, including IRC and HTTP,
    and more are possible (e.g. email).

  * RapidSMS is Open Source and is written in Python.

  * RapidSMS integrates with Django, allowing you to easily develop web-based
    views of your messaging app.

  * RapidSMS is designed to scale efficiently.

  * RapidSMS provides (or will eventually provide) core support for message
    parsing, i18n, and more.