I'm the developer who works with Lotus Sametime support. I work on the Meanwhile project, which is what the Sametime plugin uses to speak the Virtual Places protocol. I'm also the one to blame for the Psychic Mode plugin.

What I'm working on:

• Meanwhile v2
  • GObject based, with GIOChannel support. Should clean up some of the prpl code

• Sametime 7.5 integration
  • bump the reported version number in Pidgin to get around version filtering on the server
  • add support for the newer HTML and image features
  • fix idle-time broken-ness (which is all Lotus' fault)

• Additional Pidgin Sametime features
  • P2P file transfer service
  • MwSession? export via DBUS

• Multi-user selection dialog
  • similar to the file picker dialog, but intending just to select multiple buddies into a list
  • drag and drop, filtering, options for users not in the buddy list
  • useful for chat invitation and announcement messages in Sametime