Category Archives: Pidgin

Four Pidgin Summer of Code students

Posted on 2013-05-27 by Mark Doliner

Pidgin was awarded four students for this year’s Google Summer of Code. It was a difficult process to select just four students from the 34 great applications we received. These are the projects we finally chose: Ankit Vani will be … Continue reading →

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Students: Apply to Pidgin Google Summer of Code now!

Posted on 2013-04-24 by Mark Doliner

The application period for applying to Google Summer of Code opened on Monday and we’ve already received a number of applications. The application period closes next Friday, May 3rd. Just 8 days left—don’t wait, submit your application soon!

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Pidgin in Google Summer of Code 2013

Posted on 2013-04-09 by Mark Doliner

Google has accepted Pidgin into Google Summer of Code 2013. Woo-hoo! We’re looking forward to mentoring a few lucky students again this year. For more information, read Google’s announcement, peruse our application template, and see our list of project ideas. … Continue reading →

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Announcing our four Summer of Code students!

Posted on 2012-04-24 by Mark Doliner

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve accepted four students for this year’s Summer of Code! Gadu-Gadu PRPL improvements by Tomasz Wasilczyk, mentored by Ethan Blanton Plugin website by Nikhil Bafna, mentored by Kevin Stange Usage stats collection by Sanket Agarwal, … Continue reading →

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Pidgin Accepted to 2012 Summer of Code!

Posted on 2012-03-17 by Mark Doliner

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 … Continue reading →

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Tool to View DNS SRV Records for XMPP

Posted on 2011-08-04 by Mark Doliner

I wrote a crummy tool that displays the current DNS SRV records for a given XMPP domain. After writing it I discovered that Olark has already created something similar. My tool attempts to do some really basic sanity checks and … Continue reading →

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No Summer of Code for Pidgin This Year

Posted on 2011-03-12 by Mark Doliner

Pidgin/Finch/libpurple/Instant Messaging Freedom, Inc. didn’t apply to be an organization in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Why not? The short answer is that I didn’t feel we had enough developers willing to mentor students for it to be … Continue reading →

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AOL, AIM and Openness

Posted on 2010-04-02 by Mark Doliner

When I started working on Pidgin eight years ago (eight years‽ holy crap!) my main focus was the code used to connect to AIM and ICQ. The protocol is called ‘OSCAR,’ and it is a proprietary protocol created by AOL. … Continue reading →

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