The History of GNOME Empathy

This weekend I researched the history of the GNOME Empathy project.  It started as a reinterpretation of a project that was a compilation of two other projects.  Needless to say, the history wasn't exactly clear.  It is a messaging program integrated into the GNOME desktop.  It's written in C, which will be interesting because most of our group aren't familiar with C programming.  The project is sponsored by Collabora Ltd., a software consultancy based in Cambridge, England.  The project leaders are Guillaume Desmottes and Xavier Claessens.