As summer 2008 approaches, students have been busy applying, the XSF has been busy scoring applications, and mentors have been busy preparing. It’s time again for Google’s Summer of code, a scheme to pay students to work on open source code for the summer, and hopefully for them to continue contributing afterwards. This year has been a good year for the XSF, and we had a good selection of strong applications. Congratulations to those students who made it through, and consolations to those students that didn’t make it into our limited number of slots - we hope you’ll contribute anyway to the great developer communities that make up the XSF.

Psi has been particularly lucky this year to have had many strong applications, and for the XSF to have assigned three of its six slots to Psi projects.

In no particular order:

Adam Czachorowski (gislan) is going to be working together with Remko on “Metacontacts support and various roster improvements for Psi”. Adam’s project will be looking at overhauling our roster support, to add many interesting features designed to make the roster more accessible, and less prone to its current verbosity.

Paweł Wiejacha (senu) is going to be working with me on “Themable WebKit-based Chat Dialogs”. Paweł’s project is going to produce a new, friendlier face for our chat windows. Not only will you be able to theme the windows with the same themes as Adium, Kopete, and Google Talk, but you’ll also be able to see extended presence information about your contacts, such as the tune they’re listening to, and their mood.

Aleksey Palazchenko (AlekSi) is going to be working with me on “Psi: Message history”. AlekSi’s project is going to address several shortcomings in our history system. Particular highlights of the plan are to support server-side history (XEP-136), to provide a much more usable GUI, and to log MUC history.

I’d like to take the opportunity to welcome our new contributors to the project, and wish them the best of luck for the summer. These are all projects with a high importance to Psi, and I’m hoping we can make major advancements in our usability.

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Just late enough in the day that people will believe this isn’t an April’s fool, the Psi team are delighted to announce the release of Psi-0.12-RC2, fixing all blocking bugs found in RC1.

Download sites are:
Mac: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/Psi-0.12-RC2.dmg
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.12-RC2-win32.zip
Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.12-RC2.tar.bz2

If no issues are found, we’ll go gold in a couple of weeks.

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