1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
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4 For a complete list of all contributors, see the COPYRIGHT file.
6 We've got an IRC room now too, #pidgin on irc.freenode.net. Come check us out.
11 Daniel 'datallah' Atallah - Developer
12 Paul 'darkrain42' Aurich - Developer
13 John 'rekkanoryo' Bailey - Developer
14 Ethan 'Paco-Paco' Blanton - Developer
15 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury - Developer
16 Mark 'KingAnt' Doliner - Developer
17 Casey Harkins - Developer
18 Ivan Komarov - Developer
19 Gary 'grim' Kramlich - Developer
20 Richard 'rlaager' Laager - Developer
21 Marcus 'malu' Lundblad - Developer
22 Sulabh 'sulabh_m' Mahajan - Developer
23 Richard 'wabz' Nelson - Developer
24 Etan 'deryni' Reisner - Developer
25 Michael 'Maiku' Ruprecht - Developer, voice and video
26 Elliott 'QuLogic' Sales de Andrade - Developer
27 Luke 'LSchiere' Schierer - Support
28 Evan Schoenberg - Developer
29 Kevin 'SimGuy' Stange - Developer & Webmaster
30 Will 'resiak' Thompson - Developer
31 Stu 'nosnilmot' Tomlinson - Developer
32 Jorge 'Masca' Villaseñor - Developer
39 Gabriel 'Nix' Schulhof
44 Herman Bloggs - Win32 Port
45 Thomas Butter - Developer
46 Ka-Hing Cheung - Developer
47 Jim Duchek <jim@linuxpimps.com> - maintainer
49 Rob Flynn <gaim@robflynn.com> - maintainer
50 Adam Fritzler - libfaim maintainer
51 Christian 'ChipX86' Hammond - Developer & Webmaster
52 Syd Logan - hacker and designated driver [lazy bum]
53 Christopher 'siege' O'Brien - Developer
54 Bartosz Oler - Developer
55 Tim 'marv' Ringenbach - Developer
56 Megan 'Cae' Schneider - support/QA
57 Jim Seymour - XMPP developer
58 Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net> - original author
59 Nathan 'faceprint' Walp - Developer
60 Eric Warmenhoven <eric@warmenhoven.org> - lead developer
62 Retired Crazy Patch Writers:
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64 Felipe 'shx' Contreras
66 Dennis 'EvilDennisR' Ristuccia - Senior Contributor/QA
67 Peter 'Bleeter' Lawler
68 Robert 'Robot101' McQueen
77 Much thanks to Evan Martin <martine@cs.washington.edu> for writing
78 GtkSpell <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net> responsible for the
79 "Highlight misspelled words" feature and for gtk-nativewin
80 <http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/gtk-nativewin/> the default GTK+-2.0
81 engine originally used in our win32 port.
83 ** ORIGINAL LOGO DESIGNED BY: Naru Sundar **
85 Peter Teichiman <peter@helixcode.com>
88 Thanks to these boys. Peter and Larry managed to stomp
89 out a large list of Mem Leaks. Jeramey found the remaining
90 onees and pointed me to those. Props to the boys at
91 Helix Code. Thanks guys.
94 A healthy amount of patches for the Jabber plugin
97 Wrote most of the Zephyr plugin
100 Wrote the Gadu-Gadu plugin
102 David Prater <IM: dRaven43> draven@tcsx.net
103 Log and Colour Button Images
105 Sébastien Carpe <IM: Seb Carpe>
106 Base HTTP Proxy Support
108 Ari Pollak <IM: Ari Pollak> compwiz.dhs.org
109 Resize conversation window patch
112 Many GUI improvements, other nifty additions and fixes
114 David <IM: CrazyDavy>
115 The neato-bigger text box
118 Writing a cool perl script to translate WinAIM lists to gaim
121 A good collection of stuff. %n for away messages, import winaim
122 lists, pic/text/pic+text for buttons, among others
125 Improved HTML formatting in logs, plus lots of debugging on *BSD.
128 GNOME Url handler patch
130 Justin M. Ward <justin@yossman.net>:
131 Alphabetical Away Messages patch
133 G. Sumner Hayes <IM: SumnerFool> Security Patches
135 Brian Ryner for a little make file patch :)
137 Ryan C. Gordon - I still think you look like Silent Bob.
139 Elliot Tobin <elliot@bha.udel.edu>
141 Thanks to Jeroen van der Vegt for the initial smiley plugin and images.
144 Wrote the QQ plugin dropped in 2.8.0 (see libpurple/qq/AUTHORS in 2.7.11)