Good news, everyone! Google has accepted the Pidgin project‘s application to be a mentoring organization in this year’s Google Summer of Code. If you love programming and are looking for a chance to help an open source project, look no further.
How much can you accomplish in a single summer? Quite a lot. To give you an idea, here’s a list of some of our heftier projects of past years:
- SSL certificate verification and management
- Voice and video chat for XMPP
- The Bonjour protocol plugin
- The MySpace protocol plugin
- The SIMPLE protocol plugin
- Finch (command-line based IM client based on libpurple)
Details
- Get inspired by our ideas list. But don’t limit yourself to those ideas—we love when students propose their own projects.
- The application period starts March 26 and ends April 6th (full timeline)
- Once the application period opens, apply here
- We’re guessing we’ll request slots for 3 students this year.
- If IM isn’t your thing but you still want to participate, check out the list of other great organizations
Maybe you could work on getting the VV working on Windows systems? I’ve read it’s related to some libraries unrelated to prpl.. so I guess it won’t be done by prpl devs?
Here’s to hoping someone gives some love to finch!
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