Playing an MP3 over NFS on Haiku
Yesterday, Google has assigned 7 preliminary student slots to us, which is as many as we wanted to have. Haiku would like thank all the students that have applied for projects and those that have assisted in this step of the program. Overall, we received 42 student applications. In the next days we will finalize the list of accepted student projects for Haiku.
At 0:00 UTC on April 12, 2007, the list of accepted student applications will be posted on code.google.com. As some of you might have noticed, Hugo Santos, one of our student candidates, couldn't wait anymore and already started improving our network stack. Recently, he fixed a bug in our UDP protocol module which prevented the NFS module from functioning reliably. In the screenshot you can see Haiku playing an MP3 file over NFS.
Haiku developer and Google engineer Bruno G. Albuquerque is scheduled to give a lecture about Haiku at the upcoming 8th International Free Software Forum (FISL 8.0), to be held in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, on April 12th, 13th and 14th. This lecture, one of the six presentations given by Google at this event, will cover general aspects of Haiku and will include a hands-on demonstration as well.
- Title: Introducing Haiku
- Presenter: Bruno G. Albuquerque, Google
- Time: April 13 (Friday), 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Place: Dijkstra conference room
FISL is a major open software event in both the Brazilian and International FOSS event's calendar. This, the 8th edition of FISL, is expected to attract a big crowd, making it a great venue to introduce Haiku to many open source enthusiasts. Additionally, if you happen to be in the neighbourhood, this would also be a great chance to meet with one of the lead Haiku developers in person and chat with him about the current status and future of the project.
FISL 8.0 Overview
Google has extended the student application deadline for Google Summer of Code 2007 to 12:00 AM UTC on March 27, 2007. Students that are still interested in working on a project for Haiku are urged to finish their application and get it in by the new deadline.
We are pleased and at the same time thrilled to inform the community that Google has accepted our application to become a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007. Yes, we have made it! Students now have until March 24 to apply for any of our project ideas from the GSoC Web App for Student Applicants. If you are a student and are interested in working on one of our project ideas, please check out our List of GSoC Ideas and Students: How to Apply pages for detailed information.
To the existing Haiku community, please be welcoming and supportive of the students pursuing working with Haiku for the GSoC: after all, their success will be our success too.
The application period for the Google Summer of Code 2007 is close, and as Haiku prepares to submit its application to attempt becoming a mentor organization, we are initiating a drive with the goal engaging the Haiku community at large. We will be submitting our application on March 5th or 6th, and expect to know whether our application has been accepted on March 14th, the day that Google is scheduled to announce the accepted mentoring organizations on code.google.com. Please check out our GSoC 2007 Drive page to see what you can do to help raise our chances of making it into GSoC 2007!
Yesterday was our big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project. It was great to have JLG's presence, as well as that of the several ex-Be engineers who showed up for the talk. We were also glad to see JAVA for BeOS developer Andrew Bachman join us for this special event. Take a look at the
pictures taken during the presentation. A video of the full presentation will be posted on the web later this week; we will post the link here when it becomes available.
We are very excited to inform the community that a series of Haiku Tech Talks have been scheduled at Google. Long time Haiku developer and OpenBFS Team leader Bruno Albuquerque (BGA), now working at Google since last year, has made arrangements for these talks, giving us a precious opportunity to introduce the Haiku Project to many Google engineers.
The Haiku talks are scheduled to be held at the following Google locations in the dates shown below:
Google Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
- January 19, 2007 at 10:30 AM
- Av. Bias Fortes, 382 - 6o. Floor (map)
- Conference room: Akwan
- Presenter: Bruno G. Albuquerque
- Attendance: Open to the public. Capacity is limited, so please contact Bruno Albuquerque immediately if you would like to attend.
Google New York, NY, USA
- February 2, 2007 at 12:00 noon
- Conference room: Empire State (4E-321)
- Presenter: Bruno G. Albuquerque
- Attendance: This is a private presentation.
Google Mountain View, CA, USA
- February 13, 2007 at 01:30 PM
- 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA (map)
Conference room: Paramaribo Tech Talk 42
- Presenters: Michael Phipps, Axel Dörfler and Bruno G. Albuquerque
- Attendance: By invitation only. Capacity is limited, so if you would like to attend, please contact Bruno Albuquerque by February 9 at the latest.
Fortunately, the Mountain View talk will be recorded and a video posted on the web for everyone's enjoyment at some point in time; the other two tech talks may also be recorded. We will make sure that we let the community know when any of the videos become available online. Stay tuned.
