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Haiku Recognition Award for Project Founder Michael Phipps

News posted on Thu, 2008-01-24 00:14

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Farewell video for Michael Phipps Farewell video: YouTube | Download Project founder, long time leader and Haiku visionary Michael Phipps departed from the project last year. Michael's list of achievements is long: he did not just provide an overall vision for Haiku, but he also set up Haiku Inc., and over the years put in countless hours of work, keeping the development effort on track whenever it seemed to drift away from the goals, and single-handedly managing the infrastructure supporting the project. Without Michael, Haiku would most probably not be what it has become today.

Michael gave his goodbye in a moving letter to the Haiku community but, somehow, it feels as if we never reciprocated with a proper farewell. So we decided to do something special to show our heartfelt appreciation. We are thereby presenting Michael Phipps with the first ever Haiku Recognition Award. This is a very special award with a personal touch, as it has been signed by members of the community present at the recent BeGeistert 018 conference held in Düsseldorf, Germany, and is also accompanied by a farewell video.

OpenJDK Porters Group Votes to Sponsor Java Port to Haiku

News posted on Mon, 2008-01-21 17:38

ports, java, openjdk

OpenJDK Porters Group Votes to Sponsor Java Port to Haiku We are pleased to announce that the proposal submitted by the recently formed Haiku Java Team to the OpenJDK Porters Group has been accepted by a unanimous vote. This makes Haiku the first OS platform to be sponsored by the Porters Group, and it means that the port is now officially part of the OpenJDK family of projects endorsed by Sun. Referring to the Haiku Java Team proposal, OpenJDK Ambassador for Sun Microsystems Tom Marble said: "I believe that encouraging broad adoption of OpenJDK on as many operating systems and architectures as possible is essential to furthering our goals of Java ubiquity. I'm glad to support this project."

New Year, New Tool to Empower the Haiku Community

News posted on Wed, 2008-01-09 01:31

conference, event, community

SCaLE 5x, Haiku Tech Talks at Google, Picn*x XVI, CNSL 3 in Venezuela, FISL 8.0 in Brazil, NUMERICA in France, T-DOSE in the Netherlands, Kansai Open Source Forum in Japan. The list of 2007 events where Haiku had a presence is very long. In fact, never in the past has Haiku had so much public exposure as it did during 2007. And as the project keeps making progress towards its first release, this trend of increased exposure before the eyes of the open source and computing world in general is expected — and desired — to continue. In the first two months of 2008 alone, Haiku will be at BeGeistert 018, SCaLE 6x and FOSDEM 2008, not to mention the Haiku hacking event that is taking place this very same week. With very few exceptions, these events are all the result of initiatives by one or more community members.

In an attempt to assist the effort of these community members who drive such initiatives and to lure more of them to follow suit, we have added to the Haiku website the ability to easily publish information about conferences and events, as a means to increase their exposure and as a tool to further engage the participation of the community in this events.

New Java for Haiku Team Formed

News posted on Thu, 2008-01-03 20:43

java, openjdk, port

We are very excited to announce the creation of a new project team that will bring Java technologies to the Haiku. This team was established under the initiative of Haiku developer and team lead Bryan Varner, and is officially endorsed by the Haiku development team. In fact, discussions have taken place between Bryan and the rest of the core Haiku developers to start building synergy to ensure the viability of the Java Team's goals within the Haiku project.

The team's initial goal will be to port OpenJDK to Haiku. We want to have the Haiku port included within the structure of Sun's OpenJDK project, and discussions have been taking place with members of t he OpenJDK Porters Group to pursue this objective. After a meeting between Bryan, the Haiku core developers and Dalibor Topic, member and moderator of the Porters Group discussion list, we submitted a proposal in order to find a sponsor member within the Porters Group to make the official proposal to the OpenJDK project as a whole. OpenJDK Groups have two weeks to vote on sponsorship of this proposal. A majority vote is required from one group for approval.

Haiku Files: a new source of Haiku nightly builds

News posted on Fri, 2007-12-21 07:07

vmware, builds, images, download

Until very recently, the community of Haiku testers and developers, as well as those curious geeks who wanted to give Haiku a spin, relied on the services of HaikuHost.com to download nightly builds of hard disk raw and VMware images. This site, which was operated by Jonathan Freeman, has recently closed its doors, so we felt we needed a replacement. Let me introduce you to Haiku Files.

WebKit port well underway

News posted on Tue, 2007-12-04 17:03

development, WebKit

The Haiku project is proud to be once again part of Google's Code-In.
Together with 16 other open source projects we'll mentor students between 13 and 17 years of age through various large and small tasks. The aim is to introduce them to the work and community of open source projects, while benefitting ourselves from their work and energy, and maybe even by gaining future contributers.

BeGeistert 018 plus Coding Event

News posted on Mon, 2007-12-03 20:20

conference, begeistert, germany, hackathon

Many Haiku fans have been eagerly waiting for the next BeGeistert, and the official word is out now: BeGeistert 018 -- Phoenix is coming back to Düsseldorf, where it will be held on January 12 and 13, 2008. But the good news does not end here: as a prelude to BeGeistert, a coding asylum event with the expected presence of many Haiku core developers has been organized on the same week and at the sample place.

Haikuware.com Thank You Award Results

News posted on Mon, 2007-12-03 17:37

Thank You Award

The results of the second Haikuware.com Thank You Award are in, and with a mere two votes lead, the Thank You Award went to Ingo Weinhold. Congratulations!

If a contribution within the next two months strikes you as especially noteworthy, contact me with the details to get that person's name up for consideration.

Vote for Second Haikuware.com Thank You Award

News posted on Thu, 2007-11-29 19:56

Thank You Award

Haikuware.com's Thank You Awards are granted every two months according to the results of an open poll. The award was created, as the name suggests, to show the community's appreciation for an individual or organisation contributing to the Haiku project.

The first award went to Axel Dörfler for his outstanding and tireless contributions over the past years.

You can vote for a candidate for the next Thank You Award and the accompanying $50 until 1st December 2007. The candidates this time around are: Jorge G. Mare (aka koki), Ingo Weinhold (aka bonefish), Stephan Aßmus (aka stippi), Greg Nichols, and Sean Herber (BeBits)

$4,000 Donation Received from Google for GSoC 2007 Participation

News posted on Fri, 2007-11-23 01:49

google, gsoc, donation

Haiku Inc. recently received from Google a check for $4,000 for its participation in the last Google Summer of Code 2007 program. This is ten percent of the total $40,000 that Google disbursed to sponsor the eight Haiku related projects alloted for GSoC 2007. We want to thank Google for giving us the opportunity to participate in the program for the first time this year, and hope they will consider us again for next year.

The Google Summer of Code is a program designed to sponsor students to work in open source projects during the three summer months. Open source software projects like Haiku apply to become mentoring organizations, and put forward projects that students from all over the world can apply for. The mentoring organizations provide mentors to guide the students throughout the program and to assist them in the successful completion of their project. For each successfully completed project, Google pays $4,500 to the student and $500 to the mentoring organization.