Huzzah!
We’re thrilled to announce that amidst extremely strong competition, the Adium team has accepted the following six applications for the Google Summer of Code 2006:
- Integration of Jingle (Voice chat, and video chat in the far future, over Jabber)
- Student: Alvaro Saurin
Mentor: Evan Schoenberg
More information about Jingle - Jabber enhancements by integrating the Smack library
- Student: Andreas Monitzer
Mentor: Augie Fackler - Improving disability support
- Student: Chirag Shah
Mentor: Peter Hosey - Psyduck — A Desktop Presence Framework
- Student: Joshua Lock
Mentor: Colin Barrett - Enhanced tabs through PSMTabBarControl
- Student: Kent Sutherland
Mentor: David Smith
More information about PSMTabBarControl - Allowing the user to separate out parts of the contact list
- Student: Nicholas Peshek
Mentor: Brian Ganninger
We had many other applications that we wanted to accept, but we could only accept six. Thanks go to everybody who applied — if you’re passionate about Adium, please consider joining the development team independently of the Summer of Code, as fresh ideas and helping hands are always welcome. Otherwise, we hope to see you next year.
(Note: A previous version of this post said “eventually video chat”, not “video chat in the far future”. The change is in the interest of clarification: Video is not going to happen anytime soon. It’s a lot of work, so it will be some time before it’s implemented in any form.)