+[BarnOwl](http://barnowl.mit.edu/)
+==================================
+talk to:
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+- [David Benjamin](mailto:davidben@mit.edu)
+- [Jason Gross](mailto:jgross@mit.edu)
+- [Edward Z. Yang](mailto:ezyang@mit.edu)
+
+BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client used by many MIT students. Work you do here will be appreciated by many excited BarnOwl users. Here are some projects to work on:
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+- **More tab completion**. BarnOwl supports tab completion for a subset of its commands. Enlarge this subset; it's not particularly hard.
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+- **Google Plus support**. Google Plus recently published an [API](http://developers.google.com/+/api/). Integrate it with BarnOwl! We have lots of other plugins adding support for things like Facebook and Twitter which you can use to get some inspiration. A subproject would be making Perl bindings for the Google Plus API.
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+- **Facebook direct message support**. We recently landed Facebook support in the trunk, but it only supports messaging on walls. Add support for direct messages.
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+- **GMail new message support**. Now you can obsess over your new emails in realtime! Add support for GMail's notification API: http://code.google.com/apis/talk/jep_extensions/gmail.html (see our existing XMPP bindings.)
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+- **Setup [gerrit](http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/)**. We've been talking about moving from github to gerrit, which seems to have a better code review model, but we haven't had the chance nor time to set one up.
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+- **Solve and close some trac tickets**. We have a bunch of [open issues on trac](http://barnowl.mit.edu/query). Look through them and pick one to work on. In particular, [#119](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/119), [#122](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/122), [#156](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/156), [#162](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/162), [#167](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/167), [#192](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/192), and possibly [#17](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/17), [#193](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/193), [#194](http://barnowl.mit.edu/ticket/194) all seem fairly reasonable for someone not particularly familiar with the code.
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