Dear Haiku developers and users!
We'd like to invite everyone to HSA's 24th BeGeistert, the largest Haiku conference around. On the weekend of October 29th/30th developers and users meet again in Düsseldorf's Youth Hostel to code and talk and see what's new in the Haiku world. A perfect opportunity to learn of others' projects or present your own.
Currently we plan to have these talks and workshops on the agenda:
Hot summer of code
Students learned a lot, had fun
Everyone wins!
Friday August 26th 2011 marked the end of Google Summer of Code™ 2011 and, once again, Haiku did great with 4 out of the 8 initial students passing the final evaluation (7 were actually evaluated, 1 having unfortunately failed at midterm). The raw numbers might be a little bit deceiving, given that the fundamental goal of the program is ultimately to attract new contributors to the project; and early indications are pointing toward a success in that perspective.
Last year Dr. Miroslav Stimac asked the Haiku community to participate in a survey to gauge interest in Haiku, usage pattern and wishes for the future, and obtain some general demographic data. This was part of his master thesis "The desktop operating system Haiku" that can now be ordered as PDF or printed book.
Miroslav is so kind to provide chapter 6 with the survey and his analysis as a free download. While naturally being quite technical at times, it offers some interesting numbers that may also become useful when considering strategies in the future. At last we now have some hard empirical data instead of vague feelings concerning size or interests of our community at this point of Haiku's evolution.
Ten years ago today, the first post appeared on the mailing list of our project - then still called "OpenBeOS" - officially marking the start of our endeavor. Back then, with the imminent demise of Be Inc., there was an excitement and creative motivation in the air, that lead many to think a first release was only a matter of a few years. As it turns out, this estimation was a bit too optimistic.
On July 12th, 2011, Haiku® received its registration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This registration is for "Haiku" the name (as opposed to the HAIKU logo®, which became a registered trademark in March). More precisely, this new registration is known as a "standard character claim" and affords much more protection than the "stylized mark" registration of the logo. Now for a quick crash course in trademarks.
That's right, you read that right. And no, today is not April 1st.
Haikuware
has donated Ten-Thousand Dollars to Haiku, Inc.
Haiku, Inc. gratefully values each and every dollar that is is donated.
A contribution of this magnitude, well, it simply is astounding.
In other words, thank you once again, Haikuware!
Haiku, Inc. is ecstatic to announce
Michael Lotz (AKA "mmlr") on a 6 month contract developing Haiku!!
There is the intention to renew this contract for another 6 months,
making Michael to be the first person to be paid to work on Haiku for an
entire year and you can make that a reality!
The goal of his contract would be to work on anything and everything
to bring Haiku closer to its first production quality release, better known
as "R1". The scope, variety and quality of code that Michael has produced
over the past six years and even more recently, gives Haiku, Inc. the fullest
confidence in his ability to succeed in every task that he works on.
Simply put, Michael gets the job done and done right.
The Haiku Project is excited to announce the availability
of our third official alpha release. A year and a month have passed since
the Alpha 2 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.
On the Haiku, Inc. mailing list, Ingo Weinhold proposed a development contract.
You may know Ingo better by his commit id "bonefish", as he recently merged his POSIX signals development branch back into trunk as r42116.
His proposal is for 160 hours relating to furthering package management with a €2,000 EUR payout.
That is roughly a meager $18 USD per hour!
As many have likely noticed, our trusty mailing lists hosted on freelists.org are currently down.
It seems freelists.org is having some kind of critical DNS issue which hasn’t yet been resolved. We have been unable to find out much info beyond that. If anyone has more details, please feel free to mention it in the comments.
However, since Haiku has a lot of mailing lists on freelists.org, this does drastically impact development and community discussion, we may have to relocate our mailing lists to another service if the problem doesn’t get resolved soon.
