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title: Google Summer of Code 2008
date: 2008-04-21
author: stpeter
categories: ["Google Summer of Code"]
---

For the fourth year in a row, the [XMPP Standards Foundation](https://xmpp.org/xsf/) is [participating](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/about.html) in the [Google Summer of Code](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/). Our projects for 2008 are as follows:

-   Mateusz Biliński ([vArDo](http://blog.bilinski.it/)) -- [Plug-in system for Gajim](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/appinfo.html?csaid=4DBB14A9D1CA8C7C) (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger)
-   Adam Czachorowski ([gislan](http://gislan.utumno.pl/)) -- [Metacontacts support and various roster improvements for Psi](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/appinfo.html?csaid=CC0FB57C68942C8C) (Mentor: Remko Tronçon)
-   Tomas Karasek ([tomk](http://tomk-soc08.blogspot.com/)) -- [Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (XEP-0124) support in Gajim Jabber client](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/appinfo.html?csaid=8808F80FD61017BF) (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger)
-   Aleksey Palazchenko ([AlekSi](http://alek.silverstone.name/en/tags/soc)) -- [Psi: Message history](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/appinfo.html?csaid=3B03DDE3FDEE3312) (Mentor: Kevin Smith)
-   Safa Sofuoğlu ([huni](http://gsoc.safasofuoglu.org/)) -- [Updating and Improving BOSH Support of Openfire](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/appinfo.html?csaid=925383C386048A54) (Mentor: Gaston Dombiak)
-   Paweł Wiejacha ([senu](http://senu.rootnode.net/blog/index.php?/categories/1-gsoc)) -- [Themable WebKit-based Chat Dialogs](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xmpp/appinfo.html?csaid=2E3332B677411001) (Mentor: Kevin Smith)

Here's to another successful summer of coding!
