Our application to become a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007 has been approved! Qualifying students can apply for our GSoC 2007 ideas listed here between now and March 26th, 2007. For details about how to apply, please check out Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
If you find an idea marked as "big" interesting but feel you cannot completed in time, feel free to suggest splitting it into smaller parts in your proposal.
Our application to become a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 has been approved! Qualifying students can apply for our GSoC 2008 ideas listed here between now and March 31th April 7th, 2008. 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 GSoC projects are the ones proposed by the students themselves.
This year 5 students worked on our projects, of which 3 succesfully completed the program.
Andrej Spielmann - Subpixel antialiased rendering in app_server Dustin Howett - HPET timers support Zhao Shuai - Swap file support Alexandru Roman - Zeroconf support (student resigned because of lack of time) Adrien Lemaire - CIFS support (failed - no code delivered) Additionally, 4 more students were paid directly by Haiku as part of the "
This year 6 students worked on our projects, of which 5 completed the program.
Adrien Destugues - Locale Kit Bryce Groff - Partitionning support Ma Jie - ZeroConf, mDNSResponder Obaro Obgo - CIFS client (failed - student could not reliably connect to Internet during the summer) Maxime Simon - WebKit port Johannes Wischert - ARM port Additionally, 2 students were paid by Haiku directly as part of the "
The Haiku project has been accepted into Google Summer of Code&trade 2009! Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below) between March 23rd and April 3rd, 2009. 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.
The Haiku project believes that having one distribution (the one officially released by the project) is the best long term strategy to ensure success of the platform. Therefore anyone considering creating a new distribution should think long and hard before doing so. The project is very interested in working with anyone who feels they need a new distribution to add what they need to Haiku itself. Haiku distributions must comply to the following set of guidelines.
Social Networking
Google Plus Community Group Facebook Community Group Linkedin Community Group Haiku Twitter Feed Here is a list of links to Haiku User Group (HUG) and third-party Haiku-related sites that make up the wider Haiku community ecosystem. See at the bottom of the page if you would like to have your Haiku-related site added to this page. BeSly: German BeOS, Haiku and ZETA knowledge base.
Here is a list of important milestones along the history of the Haiku project.
August 18, 2001: Project starts as OpenBeOS. This is the first OK, let's start message on the Haiku mailing list. April 2002: app_server prototype 5 was released. It was the first release that was able to render windows. June 2004: First WalterCon conference held in Columbus, Ohio. New project name Haiku is announced, and the new logo disclosed.
Here is a listing of Haiku movies on the web.
Haiku Rocks - WalterCon 2006 promotional video by DarkWyrm YouTube BitTorrent (MPEG, 54MB) Haiku-files.org (MPEG, 54MB) Haiku Tech Talk at Google - February 13, 2007 by Axel Dörfler, Bruno G. Albuquerque and Michael Phipps YouTube Haiku-files.org (DivX, 195MB) Haiku presentation at NUMERICA #1, France - March 10, 2007 by François Revol Archive.org (DivX, 795MB) FalterCon 2007 - Haiku at Picn*x - August 11, 2007 by Michael Summers and Urias McCullough, edited and produced by Phil Greenway YouTube Haiku-files.
Frequently Asked Questions Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about Haiku. For development related topics, please check out the Development FAQ.
Common Questions What is Haiku? Why isn’t it called HaikuOS? Where does the name Haiku come from? Is Haiku based on Linux? Why not Linux? Is Haiku then based on BeOS? I’ve never seen Haiku. What does it look like? Can I use Haiku as my primary Operating System?
