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A status update for the main page and some updates about our summer of

2005-10-09, Mark Doliner
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A status update for the main page and some updates about our summer of
code projects. Please don't update the web page yet.
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    +Impossible to see, the future is.
    +October 9th, 2005 - 10:35PM EDT
    +It's been almost two months since our last release, and some of you are no doubt asking yourselves "why?!" We've been working toward improving Gaim's user interface for setting yourself away, invisible, etc. The changes to Gaim's internals are pretty extensive, and it's taking us a long time. With any luck, Gaim 2.0.0 will be out on November 27th.
    +Meanwhile, Google's Summer of Code has drawn to a conclusion and we are very happy with what our students accomplished. Support for Apple's <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/">Bonjour</a> protocol, UPnP NAT traversal, AIM and ICQ file transfer proxying, and support for the SIP/SIMPLE protocol are a few of the additions. See the news post at the top of our <a href="summerofcode/">Summer of Code</a> page for a detailed list.
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    Gaim 1.5.0 - who needs micro versions&#x203d;
    August 11th, 2005 - 11:54PM EDT
    Good morning class. Today I'd like all of you to download our newest release of Gaim. It features some major <a href="security/">security fixes</a> and some minor bug fixes and feature whatchamadingers. So download, install, attempt to climb a 5.12c, and have a marvelous day!
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    <h1 id="news">News</h1>
    +<h2 class="news">Summer of Code Ends</h2>
    +<div class="newsdate">October 9, 2005 - 10:35PM EDT</div>
    +<p>The "pencils down" date for the Summer of Code was September 1st. Here's a list of some of the spectacular things the Summer of Code students accomplished during their two months.
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    +<li>Rendezvous Plugin (Juanjo Molinero Horno) - Wrote a protocol plugin (PRPL) that communicates with Apple's iChat using the Bonjour protocol. The Bonjour protocol uses multicast DNS to automatically discover other Bonjour users on your local network. The PRPL currently uses the <a href="http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/">Howl</a> library for multicast DNS, but we'd like to switch to using <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi">Avahi</a> in the future. This in CVS HEAD and will be in the next release of Gaim.</li>
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    +<li>D-Busified gaim-remote (Piotr Zielinski) - Added D-Bus bindings to Gaim which allow other D-Bus aware programs to interact with Gaim. This is in CVS HEAD and will be in the next release of Gaim.</li>
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    +<li>Improved Perl Scripting (John Kelm) - Fixed the problems with our Perl interpreter and added support for lots of Gaim's newer functionality. This is in CVS HEAD and will be in the next release of Gaim.</li>
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    +<li>ICQ File Transfer (Jonathan Clark) - ICQ file transfer turned out to be pretty easy, since new versions of ICQ use the same file transfer protocol as AIM. After Jonathan got that working, he went on to add support for proxying a file through AOL's file transfer proxy servers, and made lots of other improvements to the file transfer code used by both AIM and ICQ. This is in CVS HEAD and will be in the next release of Gaim. Some of his changes also made it into earlier releases of Gaim.</li>
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    +<li>SMS PC-to-mobile routing over Bluetooth (Mel Dooki) - This project does not releate directly to Gaim, but we thought it was neat. Mel wrote a Java client that runs on a computer. The user types an SMS, the client transfers the message to a cell phone via Bluetooth, then another program on the cell phone transmits the SMS. See the <a href="http://routingsms.sourceforge.net/">SMS Routing over Bluetooth</a> webpage for more information.</li>
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    +</ul>
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    <h2 class="news">Summer of Code Blogs</h2>
    <div class="newsdate">July 7, 2005 - 12:05AM EDT</div>
    <p>The Summer of Code students are now journaling their work in blogs. I've linked names to blogs in the project listing below and have aggregated them to a single <a href="planet">page</a>. Thanks to Steven Garrity for the help.</p>