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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

SoC: XMPP XEP Published!

A rather unusual result of this year's Summer of Code is a new XMPP extension I created:

The basic idea behind it is to send someone an "attention grabbing" message. This is known on other protocols as buzz or nudge. In Adium, it will probably let the window send ripples like dropped widgets in in Dashboard in version 1.2, if somebody can fix the bugs this feature currently has.

I guess I'll get cursed for this extension, since it's a rather annoying feature. However, my implementation in Adium can be disabled from the account settings!

Labels: GSoC2007, GSoC2007-Jabber, Jabber

# posted by Andreas Monitzer at 5:54 PM 8 comments

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Huzzah! 2007 Edition

As discussed previously, Adium is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code.

Google gave us six slots, just like last year. We've made our choices; here they are:

Adding Voice Support to Adium by Implementing a Basic A/V Backend and IAX: Student: Justin Berka
Mentor: Alan Humpherys
More information on IAX.
Improving group chat: Student: Erik Beerepoot
Mentor: David Smith
Unit testing: Student: Patrick Gibson
Mentor: Brian Ganninger
Fix & expand AppleScript support: Student: Matt Handley
Mentor: Peter Hosey
Improving Adium's XMPP (Jabber) Support: Student: Andreas Monitzer
Mentor: Augie Fackler
Features Andreas wants to implement: Gateway support, PEP, user tune, user avatar, user nickname, OTR-over-Jabber improvements, better hyperlinking over Jabber, discovery browsing, ad-hoc commands, and possibly invisibility.
Improved Bonjour Support: Student: Erich Kreutzer
Mentor: Andrew Wellington

On Jabber: Yes, we had a similar project last year, but that was using Smack (a separate Jabber library), which we had to drop because of the Java-Cocoa bridge going away. Andreas is back to do it again in libpurple.

Also, we're not going to have a separate student blog this year. Students' blog posts will be here, on the main blog.

Labels: AppleScript, Bonjour, GroupChat, GSoC, GSoC2007, GSoC2007-AppleScript, GSoC2007-Bonjour, GSoC2007-GroupChat, GSoC2007-Jabber, GSoC2007-UnitTesting, GSoC2007-VV, IAX, Jabber, UnitTesting, VoiceAndVideo