News

WebKit port well underway

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

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. If you know people in the right age bracket that might be interested, point them to Google's Code-In site that has all the information.

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.

$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.

Haiku Gets Featured Speaker Spot & Booth at SCaLE 6x Expo

News posted on Tue, 2007-11-13 13:10

lecture, conference, scale, expo

Haiku to be featured at SCaLE 6x Expo on February 9 & 10, 2008 I am pleased and very excited to announce that our application for a booth and a feature speaker spot at the SCaLE 6x Expo have both been accepted. Yes, you read well: we will not only have a booth (for the second consecutive year), but Haiku developer and “Googler” Bruno G. Albuquerque will also be presenting our project and operating system as one of the few featured speakers that SCaLE invites every year among prominent members of the open source community. This is the first time Haiku is awarded a speaker spot at a renowned open source event, and we are proud of this achievement.

Reinventing Haiku

News posted on Thu, 2007-10-18 09:50

administration, transition

2007 has been a year of change for Haiku. None of it has been quite like this, however. Haiku, as an organization, is reinventing itself. First of all, on Aug. 31, Michael Phipps announced to the Haiku admin team that he intended to move on. Here are some of his words on the subject: "... I think that it is time that I move on. Haiku has become something that I do because I have to.

AHCI SATA driver ready for testing

News posted on Mon, 2007-10-01 10:45

sata

Marcus Overhagen announced that his AHCI SATA driver is now ready for testing. If you have an AHCI compliant chipset, and a SATA hard drive attached, you may want to give his driver a try. Most current motherboards are AHCI compliant - it is the defacto SATA device driver standard. This driver allows you to run Haiku on modern hardware natively, without using a PATA emulation that may be provided by your BIOS.

NORCAL-HUG Event: GSoC 2007 Haiku Mentor Appreciation Day

News posted on Sun, 2007-09-30 23:43

gsoc, community

Jorge 'Koki' Mare and his fellow NorCal Haiku User Group members have graciously put together an event in honor of Stephan Aßmus, Oliver Ruiz Dorantes and myself to take place Sunday, October 7th. This will be from 1PM to 5PM at the Wild Palms Hotel in Sunnyvale, CA, where we are staying for the Google SoC Mentor Summit. If you live in the area, please check Jorge's post on the NORCAL-HUG site and sign up!

Announcing NORCAL-HUG

News posted on Mon, 2007-09-24 23:26

hugs, community

Posted to the Haiku mailing list earlier today was an announcement of another Haiku user group. BeOS in its heyday had user groups -- BUGs -- and it is good to see the appearance of corresponding groups for our favorite underdog operating system. Below are all the details as written by Jorge Mare (aka Koki) himself. Hello Haiku Fans, During the Haiku gathering at the Picn*x event last August, a few of us who live in and around the San Francisco Bay Area talked about presenting Haiku at user group meetings in the area.