Re: [Gaim-cabal] Welcome, Evan

[Evan S. <ev...@dr...>]

On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Sean Egan wrote:
> Name change - AOL has been threatening to sue us (well... Mark
> Spencer, and then me) since as long as Gaim's existed for trademark
> infringement.

I remember this being an issue a long time ago, and then (from the  
perspective of a complete outsider at the time) it seems to  
disappear.  Has the beast reawoken, did it never really disappear, or  
did some new Incident prompt further action by AOL?

> This morning, I suggested "Cohort." Please tell me you have some  
> ideas.
Cohort's pretty good.  What about "Prosody"?

> Oh, and we've decided libgaim will be renamed libpurple.
I propose we rename it to a symbol which can not be represented in  
UTF-8 and insist on textual references being "the library formerly  
known as libgaim".

> Corporation - the same lawyers have helped me set up a Delaware
> corporation, the Instant Messaging Freedom Corporation, dedicated to
> Gaim. We have a bank account, and money, and we will be filling for
> tax-exempt status and all that jazz.
Fascinating.  What prompted this development?  I note you didn't name  
it the Gaim Corporation or such; is that just because of the  
potential name change or do you intend to reach beyond the existing  
project with it? Something similar should probably done for Adium at  
some point...

> Summer of Code - Have any ideas?
Don't have any great ideas off-hand...
  - Mark already mentioned improvements to the privacy API as an SoC  
idea, which was going to be on my list of things to suggest.
  - I've suggested this already as an Adium project, in its own  
library, so we'd want to talk about it if an application came in on  
both Adium and Gaim: Implement file transfer in the Bonjour prpl.   
(Adium currently uses libezv, a Bonjour protocol library by Andrew  
Wellington, rather than the nascent libgaim Bonjour prpl.  My guess  
is that implementation in one would make a port to the other  
reasonably easy, since right now there's simply no documentation on  
it that I'm aware of...)
  - Would it be appropriate for a student to take what's done so far  
on the MSNp11 stuff, finish it, integrate it into Gaim, and perhaps  
integrate further improvements (such as modern MSN file transfer)?   
The latter would probably be the 'primary work' of the project  
proposal, since the student is supposed to do something new, I believe.

> Wanna mentor for Gaim projects as well?
I'd be happy to mentor if a project came in that I'd be qualified to  
mentor for... I've got good familiarity with most of Gaim's code  
base, and with the overall structure, but I'm hardly an expert in any  
particular area.  I'll go ahead and request to be a mentor, and we'll  
play it by ear when applications come in.  Sound good?

Cheers,
Evan