Will Thompson sends this:
Interested in writing free software as a part time job? Here at Collabora Ltd.[0] we're looking for students to work on Telepathy[1] and Empathy[2] (an instant messaging framework and a client implemented on top of it, respectively), to help us bring it them to feature parity with other IM clients (think file transfer) and work on some of the ideas we don't have enough hands to implement (such as: an IM daemon you can run on a server and reattach to from whatever computer you find yourself at, like an IRC proxy but for all your IM protocols; running a Quake server for a few of your IM contacts without having to faff around with port forwarding and distributing IP addresses; portability to Windows and OS X; etc.).
If this sounds like your kind of thing, send your CV over to jobs@collabora.co.uk. Experience with glib, Gtk+, and other open source libraries is an advantage, but not essential; we're a helpful bunch, and most of us started out as student part-timers. :-) If you'd like to talk about Telepathy or Collabora, feel free to drop by the #telepathy IRC channel on Freenode, or get in touch with me on IRC (I'm wjt on #compsoc on OxIRC, or on Freenode, OFTC, etc.), email or Jabber (will.thompson@collabora.co.uk in both cases).
[0] http://www.collabora.co.uk/ [1] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ [2] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy