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I am pleased and very excited to announce that our application for a booth and a feature speaker spot at the SCaLE 6x Expo have both been accepted. Yes, you read well: we will not only have a booth (for the second consecutive year), but Haiku developer and “Googler” Bruno G. Albuquerque will also be presenting our project and operating system as one of the few featured speakers that SCaLE invites every year among prominent members of the open source community. This is the first time Haiku is awarded a speaker spot at a renowned open source event, and we are proud of this achievement.

After our first report, Michael's stuff finally arrived and we were able to set up Haiku on a projector screen, which actually helped bring more attention to our booth. The impression that I have been getting from the people visiting our booth is that the reception of our ideal of a desktop OS designed for, focused on, and optimized for the desktop is very positive. It has been a very encouraging experience so far.

Travis Geiselbrecht with the Haiku group

We were also extremely pleased to have the presence of Travis Geiselbrecht, the creator of NewOS, who showed up at our booth in the afternoon. Not only did we spend quality time with Travis discussing Haiku and our kernel (which is based on NewOS), but we also had dinner together where we exchanged plenty of stories from the good old days.

Projector screen at the Haiku booth

Michael Phipps giving Haiku BoF

We also had our first Birds of a Feather session in the evening, where Michael Phipps introduced Haiku to an audience of approximately twenty people. All the attendants showed great interested in our work, as evidenced by the good number of interesting questions during the Q&A session towards the end of the presentation. In my opinion, the presentation was a success, as it both introduced Haiku to those who did not know about our project, and it also helped show the progress made to those who already knew about it.

Enjoy a few more pictures for your viewing pleasure.

SCaLE 5x started this morning and it has been a lot of fun so far. Axel, Michael (Phipps), Jorge (Mare) and myself (BGA) came down to the exhibit floor early this morning to setup the booth in advance of the opening. We have a 10x10 booth with a table and a couple of chairs, so we setup a small form factor desktop PC hooked up to a 20 inch LCD monitor, and a couple of laptops, an IBM running Haiku natively, and a MacBook Pro running Haiku inside Parallels. We are still waiting for an additional PC and a projector that did not make in time, as Michael's luggage was sent to the wrong destination.

Axel Dörfler and myself at SCaLE 5xHaiku demo on 20" LCDWe have been at the booth for about three hours now, and I must say that so far I feel it was a good move to have a presence at this conference. There is a lot of traffic on floor, and a lot of people has stopped by and shown interest in what we are doing. And the audience is also right: plenty of geeks with a passion for innovative stuff. Let's hope that we get a good audience at the first BoF tonight.

Stay tuned for another report later today.

We finally have the specific details regarding the activities planned by the Haiku Project at the SCaLE 5x Conference. It's going to be two days filled with action, including an exhibit booth with a projector demonstrating Haiku, and two Birds of a Feather (BOF) presentations.

SCaLE 5x floor plan; Haiku is at booth #42.

Haiku Exhibit

We will be at booth #42. We are planning on having a projector running Haiku on a backwall screen, and a couple of hands-on PCs so that visitors can actually play with Haiku. Project leader Michael Phipps along with Haiku developers Axel Dörfler and Bruno G. Albuquerque will be available on-site. Feel free to stop by to find out about the project or to discuss technical details of the Haiku operating system. We look forward to seeing everyone!

BoF Presentations

February 10 (Sat), 8:00PM

• Title: Introducing the Haiku Operating System
• Description: This is an introduction to Haiku, an open source operating system designed from the ground up for the desktop, inspired by the concepts and technologies of BeOS. The presentation will cover the concepts and features that make Haiku unique, as well as a hands-on demo.
• Presenter: Michael Phipps
• Place: Midway conference room

February 11 (Sun), 7:00PM

• Title: Haiku Technology Insight
• Description: This presentation covers some of the technologies that make Haiku a unique operating system, including the OpenBFS database-like file system, the original HVIF icon file format, and Haiku's unique implementation of devfs.
• Presenters: Axel Dörfler and Bruno G. Albuquerque
• Place: Kennedy conference room

Conference Overview

• The Fifth Annual Southern California Linux Expo — SCaLE 5x 2007
• Date: February 10 & 11, 2007
• Location: The Westin Los Angeles Airport (map)
• Registration: on-site

We are excited to announce that the Haiku Project is scheduled to exhibit at SCaLE 5x, the Fifth Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held at The Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel on the weekend of February 10 and 11, 2007. This is our debut at a major open source conference and represents an important first step towards becoming a widely recognized member of the global open source community.

Specifics of the Haiku exhibit are still being discussed and will be announced at a later date. We wanted to inform the community as soon as possible, not only out of sheer excitement, but also in the hope that some of you may offer to help out, or even just drop by and support us, in order to make this a memorable event for Haiku.

So if you are in the area or feel adventurous enough to drive or fly over for a weekend in LA, here is another opportunity to help the advancement of Haiku. If you are interested in taking part, please contact us so that we can discuss the areas where you can help out (select "Marketing" under category in the contact form).

SCaLE is an open source event started in 2002 that gathers open source communities, academic institutions and commercial exhibitors such as IBM and Google. More than one thousand people attended SCaLE 4x early this year, and attendance is expected to grow in 2007. For more information, check out the SoCal Linux Expo website.

SCaLE 5x at-a-glance

• General information: Home page
• Location: The Westin Los Angeles Airport
• Exhibitors list
• Conference sponsors
• Admission: $60.00, $30.00 for students, $10.00 for exhibits only