Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
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For a complete list of all contributors, see the COPYRIGHT file.

We've got an IRC room now too, #pidgin on irc.freenode.net. Come check us out.

Current Developers:
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Daniel 'datallah' Atallah - Developer
Paul 'darkrain42' Aurich - Developer
John 'rekkanoryo' Bailey - Developer
Ethan 'Paco-Paco' Blanton - Developer
Thomas Butter - Developer
Ka-Hing Cheung - Developer
Sadrul Habib Chowdhury - Developer
Mark 'KingAnt' Doliner - Developer
Sean Egan - Developer
Casey Harkins - Developer
Ivan Komarov - Developer
Gary 'grim' Kramlich - Developer
Richard 'rlaager' Laager - Developer
Sulabh 'sulabh_m' Mahajan - Developer
Richard 'wabz' Nelson - Developer
Christopher 'siege' O'Brien - Developer
Bartosz Oler - Developer
Etan 'deryni' Reisner - Developer
Tim 'marv' Ringenbach - Developer
Michael 'Maiku' Ruprecht - Developer, voice and video
Elliott 'QuLogic' Sales de Andrade - Developer
Luke 'LSchiere' Schierer - Support
Megan 'Cae' Schneider - support/QA
Evan Schoenberg - Developer
Kevin 'SimGuy' Stange - Developer & Webmaster
Will 'resiak' Thompson - Developer
Stu 'nosnilmot' Tomlinson - Developer
Nathan 'faceprint' Walp - Developer

Crazy Patch Writers:
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Marcus 'malu' Lundblad
Dennis 'EvilDennisR' Ristuccia
Peter 'Fmoo' Ruibal
Gabriel 'Nix' Schulhof
Jorge 'Masca' Villaseñor

Retired Developers:
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Herman Bloggs - Win32 Port
Jim Duchek <jim@linuxpimps.com> - maintainer
Rob Flynn <gaim@robflynn.com> - maintainer
Adam Fritzler - libfaim maintainer
Christian 'ChipX86' Hammond - Developer & Webmaster
Syd Logan - hacker and designated driver [lazy bum]
Jim Seymour - XMPP developer
Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net> - original author
Eric Warmenhoven <eric@warmenhoven.org> - lead developer

Retired Crazy Patch Writers:
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Felipe 'shx' Contreras
Decklin Foster
Peter 'Bleeter' Lawler
Robert 'Robot101' McQueen
Benjamin Miller

Artists:
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Hylke Bons - Icons

Other Contributions:
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Much thanks to Evan Martin <martine@cs.washington.edu> for writing 
GtkSpell <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net> responsible for the 
"Highlight misspelled words" feature and for gtk-nativewin
<http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/gtk-nativewin/> the default GTK+-2.0
engine originally used in our win32 port.

** ORIGINAL LOGO DESIGNED BY: Naru Sundar **

Peter Teichiman <peter@helixcode.com>
Larry Ewing 
Jeramey A. Crawford
	Thanks to these boys.  Peter and Larry managed to stomp
	out a large list of Mem Leaks.  Jeramey found the remaining
	onees and pointed me to those.  Props to the boys at 
	Helix Code.  Thanks guys.

Nathan Walp
	A healthy amount of patches for the Jabber plugin

Neil Sanchala
	Wrote most of the Zephyr plugin

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
	Wrote the Gadu-Gadu plugin
	
David Prater    <IM: dRaven43>          draven@tcsx.net   
	Log and Colour Button Images

Sébastien Carpe <IM: Seb Carpe>
	Base HTTP Proxy Support

Ari Pollak      <IM: Ari Pollak>	compwiz.dhs.org
	Resize conversation window patch   

Decklin Foster
	Many GUI improvements, other nifty additions and fixes

David <IM: CrazyDavy>
	The neato-bigger text box

S D Erle
	Writing a cool perl script to translate WinAIM lists to gaim

BMiller
	A good collection of stuff. %n for away messages, import winaim
	lists, pic/text/pic+text for buttons, among others

Lance Rocker
	Improved HTML formatting in logs, plus lots of debugging on *BSD.

ergofobe:
	GNOME Url handler patch

Justin M. Ward <justin@yossman.net>:
	Alphabetical Away Messages patch

G. Sumner Hayes <IM: SumnerFool> Security Patches

Brian Ryner for a little make file patch :)

Ryan C. Gordon - I still think you look like Silent Bob.

Elliot Tobin <elliot@bha.udel.edu>

Thanks to Jeroen van der Vegt for the initial smiley plugin and images.

The OpenQ Team
	Wrote the QQ plugin dropped in 2.8.0 (see libpurple/qq/AUTHORS in 2.7.11)
