Sean Egan

Sean Egan is the project leader of Pidgin, a popular instant messaging client. He is also a software engineer at Google, where he has worked on Google Talk.

Biography

Born on April 5, 1982, in Long Island, New York, Sean Egan graduated from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York and earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Binghamton University with a major in computer science. He has been a major contributor to the field of open-source real-time communication software since 2000, when he started working on Pidgin, (formerly Gaim) an open-source, multi-protocol, cross-platform instant messaging application. Sean Egan became an official part of the Pidgin team in January 2001 and is presently the lead developer of the Pidgin client, which is now located at a [http://pidgin.im new site] . [ [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ SourceForge.net: Gaim ] ]

He was hired by Google, Inc. in September 2005 as a software engineer on the Google Talk team. As a leader of the libjingle project, Sean Egan is focusing his efforts on ensuring interoperability in the voice features of XMPP-based instant messaging clients.

Sean Egan currently lives in Seattle, Washington, and enjoys playing his ukulele.fact|date=November 2007

Published works

* Egan, Sean M. "Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim", Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2005. ISBN 1-59059-467-3.

See also

* Pidgin
* Google Talk

References

External links

* [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin Instant Messaging Client Website]
* [http://googletalk.blogspot.com/ Google Talkabout Blog]
* [http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=414 Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim]
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/etel2006/view/e_spkr/2589 Speaker Profile] , O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference

News media

* cite news
url = http://news.com.com/Whos+who+of+Google+hires/2100-1030_3-6043231.html
title = Who's who of Google hires
publisher = CNET News
author = Elinor Mills
date = February 27, 2006
* cite news
url = http://skypejournal.com/blog/2006/01/sean_egan_etel.html
title = Sean Egan ETel
publisher = Skype Journal
author = Stuart Henshall
date = January 30, 2006
* cite news
url = http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12634
title = Sean Egan on Gaim's Future
publisher = OSNews
author = Eugenia Loli-Queru
date = November 12, 2005
* cite news
url = http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872058,00.asp
title = Google's Got Gaim
publisher = eWeek
author = Ben Charny
date = October 17, 2005
* cite news
url = http://www.forbes.com/2002/07/16/0716tentech.html
title = Better Instant Messaging Through Linux
publisher = Forbes
author = Matthew Herper
date = July 16, 2002