Kopete - Instant Messenger
Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for personal and enterprise use.
The goal of Kopete is to provide users with a single easy-to-use way to access all of their instant messaging systems. The interface puts people first, and is integrated with the system address book to let you access your contacts from other KDE applications.
Features
Kopete features tools to enhance your instant messeging experience, such as message encryption, archiving, and many other fun and useful effects.
Kopete supports all commonly used instant messaging protocols, and the Kopete team provides templates for developers to base new plugins on. The API provides developers with many features to make it easy to support a new protocol. All protocols are plugins and allow for modular installation, configuration, and usage.
Developed By
Authors:
- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <duncan@kde.org>
Developer and Project founder
http://www.mac-vicar.org/~duncan - Andre Duffeck <duffeck@kde.org>
Developer, Yahoo plugin maintainer - Andy Goossens <andygoossens@telenet.be>
Developer - Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>
Developer, Connection status plugin author
http://chrishowells.co.uk - Cláudio da Silveira Pinheiro <taupter@gmail.com>
Developer, Video device support
http://taupter.homelinux.org - Gregg Edghill <gregg.edghill@gmail.com>
Developer, MSN - Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
Developer, Gadu plugin maintainer - Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <gustavo.boiko@kdemail.net>
Developer - Jason Keirstead <jason@keirstead.org>
Developer
http://www.keirstead.org - Matt Rogers <mattr@kde.org>
Lead Developer, AIM and ICQ plugin maintainer - Michel Hermier <michel.hermier@wanadoo.fr>
IRC plugin maintainer - Michaël Larouche <larouche@kde.org>
Lead Developer, Telepathy and Messenger plugin maintainer
http://www.tehbisnatch.org/ - Olivier Goffart <ogoffart@kde.org>
Lead Developer, MSN plugin maintainer - Ollivier Lapeyre Johann <johann.ollivierlapeyre@gmail.com>
Artist / Developer, Artwork maintainer - Richard Smith <kde@metafoo.co.uk>
Developer, UI maintainer - Tiago Salem Herrmann <tiagosh@gmail.com>
Developer, WLM plugin maintainer - Till Gerken <till@tantalo.net>
Developer, Jabber plugin maintainer - Will Stephenson <wstephenson@kde.org>
Lead Developer, GroupWise maintainer - Rafael Fernández López <ereslibre@kde.org>
Developer - Roman Jarosz <kedgedev@centrum.cz>
Developer, AIM and ICQ - Charles Connell <charles@connells.org>
Developer - Tejas Dinkar <tejas@gja.in>
Developer, Bonjour Plugin Maintainer
http://www.gja.in - Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Developer, Skype plugin maintainer
Thanks To:
- Vally8 <vally8@gmail.com>
Konki style author
http://vally8.free.fr/ - Tm_T <jussi.kekkonen@gmail.com>
Hacker style author - Luciash d' Being
Kopete's icon author - Steve Cable
Sounds - Jessica Hall
Kopete Docugoddess, Bug and Patch Testing. - Justin Karneges
Iris Jabber Backend Library - Tom Linsky <twl6@po.cwru.edu>
OscarSocket author - Olaf Lueg
Kmerlin MSN code - Chetan Reddy <chetan13@gmail.com>
Former developer - Nick Betcher <nbetcher@kde.org>
Former developer, project co-founder - Ryan Cumming <ryan@kde.org>
Former developer - Stefan Gehn <metz@gehn.net>
Former developer
http://metz.gehn.net - Martijn Klingens <klingens@kde.org>
Former developer - Andres Krapf <dae@chez.com>
Former developer - Carsten Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@kde.org>
Misc bugfixes and enhancements - Zack Rusin <zack@kde.org>
Former developer, original Gadu plugin author - Richard Stellingwerff <remenic@linuxfromscratch.org>
Former developer - Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Former developer, Jabber plugin author
http://fooishbar.org - Chris TenHarmsel <chris@tenharmsel.com>
Former developer, Oscar plugin - Hendrik vom Lehn <hennevl@hennevl.de>
Former developer
http://www.hennevl.de - Gav Wood <gav@indigoarchive.net>
Former developer and WinPopup maintainer
License
Kopete is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.

