Summer of Code 2012


I’m proud to announce that I’m a mentor in this year’s Google Summer of Code. I’m mentoring Sanket, who’s going to be writing a plugin for Pidgin/libpurple that will record statistics and send them to a server for display. Kinda like Adium’s Sparkle stats.

I’m really excited about his project and I’m really keen to see some of the stats that come out of it. It’ll be great to know how many people are using my plugins for one 😉 but will also be good to see what operating systems Pidgin runs on primarily. There’s already been a request from the Instantbird guys about getting stats of popular protocols based on system locales, which is going to be a pretty cool metric to see 🙂

There’s already been a lot of great discussion between Sanket and I about what stats will be useful in terms of CPU and operating system. Do you have any thoughts on what stats you’d like to see out of Pidgin?

  1. #1 by Xion on 2012-11-06 - 11:16 pm

    Hi you know why Trillian support skype? there is a way for do it on pidgin? 😐

    • #2 by Eion Robb on 2012-11-07 - 11:53 am

      Trillian uses the open-source-incompatible SkypeKit library, which still has a Skype client running, it just doesn’t have any UI so you don’t see it running.

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