My Google Sommer of Code Project

[Ali Albazaz]

Hey!

My Name is Ali Albazaz, 20. I Study Computer Science in Bonn, Germany, 
second semester.
When I was 16 I was involved in the gaim project the first time. There I 
fixed some small
bugs with the help of Sean Egan and thats the reason why my name is 
still available in the
Copyright file.

Now I'm going to apply for the Google Sommer of Code Program and support 
pidgin project.
I'm using pidgin now for 7 years mostly for ICQ  everyday (because ICQ 
is very popular in
my region). Therefore I know about many feautures that the Original ICQ 
Client supports
and the Pidgin ICQ-Implementation doesn't.

Last week I started a survey (with 129 persons) to see which things are 
most important to
the people and have to be implemented first. Here are their suggestions 
ordered by popularity:

- About every 4th person complained about the file transfer problem 
between other clients.
- Many people want the old "block" function back because in the past it 
people got blocked
     couldn't see one online but were able to write one. The new 
function is useful but removing the
     old function is wrong. The people need both of the functions.
- Webcam and voice chat should be implemented
- Flash games
- Authorization problems: after the authorization sometimes the people 
are two times in my list and if I remove one of them they both disapear
- Status-Messages doesn't work between other clients
- Invisible status doesn't work sometimes

The other suggestions are good but not so popular like these mentioned 
above. Therefore I picked out these themes:
Filetransfer, block-function, Autorization, Status Messages and if there 
is time the invisible status.

I want to fix this things between May 24th and August 9th - that means 
in 11 Weeks.
Maybe you have some instructions or hints to me? Are there things that 
are something like undevelopable in 11 weeks? :-D
I would be glad! :-)

Thanks,
Ali

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Ali Albazaz
Am Jesuitenhof 3 / 963
53117 Bonn
Mobile: (+49) 170 8647236
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