Bummer!
We did not make it into Google Summer of Code this year. We were fortunate to be selected so often in the past, but apparently it’s now time to let other projects benefit from this summer event; 177 out of 417 projects were chosen this year. GSoC 2012 went especially well for us though, which certainly makes this announcement that much more difficult to swallow. Congratulations and best wishes to the organizations that were accepted, and hopefully we’ll have better luck next year.
What an upbeat way to start the new year!
Google, Inc. has donated Five-Thousand Dollars to Haiku, Inc.
Earlier in December, a Google employee contacted the project to coordinate
their donation. The transaction was received this month and shows as part
of 2013's fundraising progress. This donation will greatly assist in securing
additional development time specifically for HAIKU!
Thank you Google, Inc!
The Haiku project is supported by various websites and web services, such as the development tracker and the translation tools. For all these services we have various short and long term goals and objectives, and we are looking for help to realize our plans.
Helping out means that you are contributing to the continued development of Haiku! We are looking for people with Drupal/PHP skills and people with Python experience.
What is Google Code-in ? GCI is a contest for pre-university students (from 13 to 17 years old) with the goal to encourage young students to participate into open-source development. To achieve that goal, open-source organizations sets up various tasks and students are invited to claim them. Various prizes are awarded and, this year, each organizations are going to award two (2) grand prize winners amongst participating students.
When does the contest start ?
Due to the immediate testing efforts of HAIKU Release 1 Alpha 4, several critical bugs were detected by testers and reported on our bug tracker. On several hardware configurations, those issues prevented Haiku from booting properly. Since then, those bugs have been squashed and are resolved in this bugfix update, R1 Alpha 4.1. There are two general issues fixed by this point release:
Deskbar can freeze at boot-up on read-only media.
The Haiku Project is excited to announce the availability of our
fourth official alpha release. A year and four months have passed
since the Alpha 3 and the Haiku Project has been busy. The main
purpose of this release is to provide interested third party
developers with a stable version for testing and development.
To aid with that, Haiku includes a rich set of development tools.
Hello everyone!
The Haiku Support Association (HSA) would like to invite everyone to the 26th BeGeistert on 3rd & 4th of November 2012. The location will be once again the youth hostel in Düsseldorf, Germany.
For years now, BeGeistert has been the regular get-together of users and developers of Haiku (and BeOS before that); a nice opportunity to present the latest projects and get a direct reaction from the participants.
That's right -- Oliver Tappe and Ingo Weinhold have been accepted for individual contracts![1, 2] Each of them will be working for two 160 hour periods. That adds up to an additional 640 hours of dedicated HAIKU development time for a total cost of €8,000 EUR. The area of focus will be Haiku's package management. (See A brief summary of HAIKU's package management. for an explanation of how package management will work.
Ok it hasn’t been years since Michael was here, on IRC passin' his time away.
To the left and to the right, commits towering to the sky.
It’s outta sight in the dead of night
Here he is, again in this project, with a fistful of keystrokes
And baby, you better believe.
He’s back, back in the Haiku groove!
He’s back, back in the Haiku groove!
(Ok, enough ripping off KISS lyrics)
Michael Lotz has been casually making commits in his KeyStore feature branch! First as a reminder to everyone, as Michael explained the KeyStore API will be able to “securely manage keys, passwords, certificates, etc. in a central place and generic way (so that it can be used by other applications as well)”. More details on its design and functionality are mentioned in Michael’s blog. As you can imagine the KeyStore API will add much appreciated functionality to Haiku, specifically in the area of managing wifi connections.
Long time Haiku contributor and Haiku, Inc. board of directors member Ryan Leavengood recently wrote an article about Haiku, which was just published in the May 2012 issue of IEEE Spectrum. For those Haiku community members who are IEEE members you can read the article in your print magazine, and all others can read the whole article online.
The Haiku project is always appreciative of any positive media coverage, and we want to thank Ryan for writing the article and the staff of IEEE Spectrum for publishing it.
