Adium is a multi-protocol instant messaging application for Mac OS X. It supports AIM, ICQ, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, Lotus Sametime, MSN, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Yahoo!, and Zephyr.

For this year's Google Summer of Code, the Adium team have narrowed down thousands of hopefuls, down to only six. The participants and their respective projects are as follows:

Integration of Jingle (Voice chat, and video chat in the far future, over Jabber)
Student: Alvaro Saurin
Mentor: Evan Schoenberg

Jabber enhancements by integrating the Smack library
Student: Andreas Monitzer
Mentor: Augie Fackler

Improving disability support
Student: Chirag Shah
Mentor: Peter Hosey

Psyduck Â? A Desktop Presence Framework
Student: Joshua Lock
Mentor: Colin Barrett

Enhanced tabs through PSMTabBarControl
Student: Kent Sutherland
Mentor: David Smith

Allowing the user to separate out parts of the contact list
Student: Nicholas Peshek
Mentor: Brian Ganninger

A previous version of the post mentioned "eventually video chat" but they want to clarify that it'll take a while for video to happen soon.

If you are interested in being a part of Adium, they are inviting everyone to consider joining the development team independently of the Summer of Code, as fresh ideas and helping hands are always welcome.

Kudos to Adium!