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April 25, 2008

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Summer of Code students chosen for Adium

Posted Apr. 25, ’08, 7:11 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Geekery

Adium Google’s Summer of Code program sponsors students that want to help contribute to open source projects. It is, quite simply, one of the best things anybody has done for the open source community. Both Camino and Adium have participated in this program in the past. In fact, Camino’s new tab bar was born of such a project.

Adium has announced its three contributors, Branton Homer, Arcadio García, and Geoffrey Foster. Homer will be extending Adium’s testing infrastructure (not a shiny bit). García will be implementing behavior driven development (interesting, but mostly unimportant to most end users).

Finally, and I’m really excited about this one, Foster will be putting something like Apple’s data detectors into Adium. Each message you receive will be analyzed and have context relevant actions associated and made available. Also, the plan is to make the framework available for use by other applications. Having this everywhere sounds good to me.


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