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Mark Doliner: Four Pidgin Summer of Code students 28 May 2013 | 05:52 am
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 fi...
Mark Doliner: Students: Apply to Pidgin Google Summer of Code now! 25 Apr 2013 | 10:31 am
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—...
Mark Doliner: Pidgin in Google Summer of Code 2013 9 Apr 2013 | 12:21 pm
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 ...
John Bailey: Pidgin and the Impending Shutdown of Windows Live Messenger 12 Nov 2012 | 04:58 am
So, Microsoft recently announced that they’ll terminate the Windows Live Messenger service in favor of Skype in early 2013. We’ve been getting a number of questions about what this means for Pidgin. ...
Sanket Agarwal: Joys of academic bachelor research at IIT and common misconceptions 2 Nov 2012 | 01:52 am
If you have had the pleasure of reading a great contribution to academics, be it any field – you could marvel at how systematically and sequentially authors write their work. Well, if you are after im...
Tomasz Wasilczyk: My Google Summer of Code summary 23 Aug 2012 | 01:50 am
Google Summer of Code is over, so there is a need for a little summary. Pidgin was accepted with four projects, three of them (this one too) succeeded. Gadu-Gadu related project changed a bit since it...
Tomasz Wasilczyk: GSoC finish: more features, more code refactoring 21 Aug 2012 | 08:14 pm
Yesterday, we had firm pencils down date. That means, this is the last set of updates within this year’s GSoC. But not the last one for Gadu-Gadu prpl – I will continue my work in the meantime, to mak...
Tomasz Wasilczyk: Libpurple API changes for better Gadu-Gadu support 10 Aug 2012 | 07:12 pm
Libpurple is a library with a very stable API. That’s convenient for users, because most of old plugins works with new versions of Pidgin, but it’s also restrictive. That means, Pidgin cannot evolve a...
Sanket Agarwal: Shiny new UI for stats display! 8 Aug 2012 | 11:36 am
Hi, As part of a (un)timely dose of SoC updates, the Statscollector project is moving towards a mini milestone. With the UI part now consolidated and the client having all functionality of a mature p...
Tomasz Wasilczyk: New file transfer protocol analyzed 28 Jul 2012 | 09:11 pm
I have successfully managed to reverse-engineer a new file transfer protocol for GG11. Good news is, that I implemented my own client, able to send a file. Bad news is, that it requires a token, which...
