On the Psi front we have great news. Justin Karneges, the original author of Psi, as well other notable XMPP related projects under the Delta moniker, has just landed a contract with the Portuguese company SAPO. While it’s great that he can put food on the table and all, it really means quite a lot for the Psi project and the larger Jabber community.

The contract consists of creating a new Mac OS Jabber client to what I assume will be a combination of SAPO and Justin’s specifications. The cool part is that he has permission to derive his client from the Psi codebase, and vice-versa. He’s mentioned XMPP compliancy to them, so I’m hoping that Psi will get up to speed there, and perhaps fill out the Basic and Intermediate JEPs as well. And XMPP URI handling. Mmmmmm, good.

You can read his official announcement here: Psi Community -> Partnership with SAPO, from Portugal Telecom