Interview with Sjoerd Simons of Empathy
This is the third in a series of interviews about open source multimedia. For this interview we check in with Sjoerd Simons who works on the Empathy client, an which combines instant messaging, video conferencing and voice over IP into one application. Sjoerd will talk to us about the current status of Empathy and where it is going.
Could you give us an introduction on who you are and what projects you been working on over the years?
I'm a dutch guy working for Collabora Ltd. in Cambridge, UK. I started my involvement with the open source/free software as a Debian Maintainer. I'm one of the people maintaining GNOME for Debian, but most of my work has been on the stuff things below the desktop (Avahi, D-Bus, Hal, etc), both for debian and to a lesser extent upstream. The last few years i've been working for Collabora on various bits and pieces of the Telepathy ecosystem, with as biggest project I've done being telepathy-salut (the link-local XMMP connection manager) of which i'm the main author.
For those not familiar with Empathy, what type of application is it and what are its features?
Empathy is an instant messaging client build on top of Telepathy. Currently it supports presence, chatting (both p2p and chatrooms), voice and video calling for a variety of protocols, including but not limited to XMPP, link-local XMPP, MSN, SIP, Yahoo, ICQ etc..
Who are the current contributors to Empathy apart from yourself?
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