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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
(#pidgin-win32 for Windows users). Come check us out.

Current Developers:
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Sean Egan <[e-mail]> - Lead Developer
	AIM: SeanEgn
	ICQ: 96642211
	Yahoo:	SeanEgn
	MSN:  [e-mail]
	Jabber:  [e-mail]
	Gadu-Gadu:  1511497

Daniel 'datallah' Atallah
Ethan 'Paco-Paco' Blanton - Developer
Thomas Butter - Developer
Sadrul Habib Chowdhury - Developer
Mark 'KingAnt' Doliner - Developer
Christian 'ChipX86' Hammond - Developer & Webmaster
Gary 'grim' Kramlich - Developer
Richard 'rlaager' Laager
Christopher 'siege' O'Brien - Developer
Bartosz Oler - Developer
Etan 'deryni' Reisner - Developer
Tim 'marv' Ringenbach - Developer
Luke 'LSchiere' Schierer - Support
Megan 'Cae' Schneider (support/QA)
Evan Schoenberg - Developer
Stu 'nosnilmot' Tomlinson - Developer
Nathan 'faceprint' Walp - Developer

Crazy Patch Writers:
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Ka-Hing 'javabsp' Cheung
Felipe 'shx' Contreras
Decklin Foster
Peter 'Bleeter' Lawler
Robert 'Robot101' McQueen
Benjamin Miller
Kevin 'SimGuy' Stange

Retired Developers:
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Herman Bloggs - Win32 Port
Jim Duchek <[e-mail]> - maintainer
Rob Flynn <[e-mail]> - maintainer
Adam Fritzler - libfaim maintainer
Syd Logan - hacker and designated driver [lazy bum]
Jim Seymour - Jabber developer
Mark Spencer <[e-mail]> - original author
Eric Warmenhoven <[e-mail]> - lead developer

Artists:
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Hylke Bons - Icons

Other Contributions:
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Much thanks to Evan Martin <[e-mail]> 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 used in our win32 port.

** LOGO DESIGNED BY: Naru Sundar **

Peter Teichiman <[e-mail]>
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>          [e-mail]   
	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 <[e-mail]>:
	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 <[e-mail]>

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

The OpenQ Team
	Wrote the QQ plugin (see AUTHORS in the qq directory)