Eight students to be mentored by Haiku in Google Summer of Code 2011!
For this year's Google Summer of Code™ program, we at Haiku have been allocated eight students!
In 2011, 417 mentoring organizations applied and 3731 students submitted 5474 proposals.
Haiku is proud to be one of the 175 accepted mentoring organizations, with 35 submitted proposals and 8 accepted students.
Over the years, Haiku's goals for Google Summer of Code have evolved.
Originally the ability to evaluate the students' capabilities was lacking and the attention was simply on choosing projects that filled a need.
Now, the emphasis is placed on choosing the best students, as they are more important than their short term code contributions.
During the application process, those students instilled a sense of hope and confidence in Haiku's mentors that they will mature into full project contributors.
In other words, this is our opportunity to grow and refine young, intelligent, and highly motivated
students into people who will continue to develop Haiku in the years to come.
As with many other FOSS mailing lists, we at Haiku hold ourselves to a few rules when posting to mailing lists. For now most of these are to ensure that all information is properly archived or to improve a message's readability. In the future this list may be expanded with additional detail.
Message Body No Top Posting Top posting refers to clicking "reply", leaving all the text intact, and inserting your text at the top of the message body.
For Google Code-In 2017, Jakub Pajdowski created a video on how to install Haiku in VirtualBox [6 MiB].
Virtual instances of operating systems are perfect for all kinds of testing purposes that need to be done in a safe and isolated environment. Installing Haiku in a virtual machine is a solution for people who do not want to install it on their physical computers, but wish to become familiar with it.
The Haiku Project has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code™ 2011! Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below) between March 28th and April 8th, 2011. For details about how to apply, please check out Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
According to other mentor organizations, the most successful Google Summer of Code projects are the ones proposed by the students themselves.
This year, 4 of the 8 students completed their projects
Mike Smith - VirtualBox guest additions Nathan Heisey - SDL2 port Gabriel Hartmann - UVC webcam driver Sean Healy - Perl and Python BeAPI bindings Jian Chiang - USB3 support (failed) Jack Laxson - Continuous integration / nightly builds (failed) Ankur Sethi - ZFS support (failed) Dario Casuolinovo - Services and Contacts integration
This article was written when Ubuntu 10.10 was the latest version. Starting with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Haiku should be recognized out of the box. Just run sudo update-grub to add it to the GRUB menu.
When I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, not only did I wonder why it wouldn't recognize the BFS file systems, but also why Windows would automatically get added to the GRUB menu, but Haiku wouldn't.
This article was written when Ubuntu 10.10 was the latest version. Starting with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), BFS file systems should be recognized out of the box.
Late 2009 I made the switch from Windows to Ubuntu as my primary operating system. During the first weeks of using it, I began to wonder why it would recognize my old Windows file system on the hard disk but not the BFS file systems. The partitions were correctly recognized as BeOS BFS (0xEB) and I could mount them from the command-line with mount -t befs /dev/sda5 /media/Haiku, but they didn't show up in the Places menu or elsewhere in the system.
Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that can be used with UNIX and Linux print spooling systems, such as CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), lpr, LPRng, and others. Gutenprint currently supports over 700 printer models.
Gutenprint was recently ported to Haiku, both increasing its printing capabilities, as well as extending its supported printer models. This article describes Gutenprint and the effort to port it to Haiku.
By large, the Haiku Project is based on a
meritocracy -- the
notion of people gaining prestige and influence in the project by making
valuable contributions (whether it be code, documentation, or other recognized
services to the project). However, there are also elements of a representative
democracy, where the voting body will consider the thoughts of the larger user
base of Haiku when making decisions. But there is no doubt that at the end of
the day decisions are made by members of the meritocracy.
This general interest poll, is to allow you -- yes you! -- the opportunity
to effectively express your thoughts on which features should be present in
Haiku R1 (Final). For R1, a balance must be attained between delaying the
release and making Haiku R1 a well polished, impressive and feature rich release.
This poll will remain open until Sunday December 12, 2010 (approximately 19:00 UTC).
Afterwards, the results will be merged onto the
FutureHaiku/Features wiki
page on the
Haiku Project's Development Tracker.
A courtesy email will also be sent to the
[haiku-development] mailing list.
This general interest poll is now closed.. The results have been attached as images to
FutureHaiku/Features. A mailing list discussion will occur later in the week, as some active committers have yet to post their thoughts. Thank you all for participating!
Haiku, Inc. owns the 'Haiku'® name, HAIKU logo®, HAIKU Background Leaf™, and HAIKU Leaf™ (registered) trademarks. As an open source project, the name and brand that is associated with the Project is vital to the Project's reputation and the sense of familiarity that end-users expect from the Software. Anyone is able to freely use the code that comprises Haiku, however the trademarks of Haiku cannot freely be used in the same liberal manner.
