We are excited to tell you about another proposal for contract development!
This time, it is from Axel Dörfler. He is proposing to work 120 hours at $14
per hour, for a total of $1,680. To remind you of the sheer awesomeness of this,
Axel has been with the Project since nearly the beginning -- he joined a few
months after it was started in 2001. Axel was also
Haiku's first employee back
in 2005! This is a chance to get him back in the saddle -- or, according to some jokes,
back in the basement -- coding Haiku full time for a few weeks.
Astonishing Update: In a mere 24 hours, over $800 36 hours, over $1,100 42hours, over $3,000 has been donated! Your response has been overwhelmingly amazing. Thank you for all of your support!
A few words about our effort at kansai open source conference in Kyoto 9-10.7.2010
I had no idea what to expect from an open source event here in kansai (osaka,kyoto,kobe,nara area of japan). Everything software in japan is very much focused to Tokyo so I was keen to see whats going on here at the boons so to speak.
After a few weeks of exchanging emails with jorge and eguchi-san, both which i’ve never met, we had trouble getting together to think about how we will present haiku and just decided to play by ear once we got to the event.
Miroslav Stimac, a part time student at the FernUniversitaet in Hagen, is writing a master thesis about Haiku and asks you to answer his survey at www.haiku-survey.com. The survey is relatively short, and should be answered in about two minutes.
The aggregated results of the survey are expected to be published in early 2011, so don’t hold your breath.
The FLOSS Weekly (Free Libre Open Source Software) podcast is featuring Haiku in episode 120. Hosts Randal Schwartz and Aaron Seigo talk with Haiku developer Ryan Leavengood and contributor Niels Sascha Reedijk about the origins of Haiku, its purpose, the current status of the project and the potential for the future. Of course, alpha 2 is shamelessly being plugged!
Listen to the podcast now, or download it for later!
The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1A2, its second official alpha release. Haiku is an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing intended for desktop use. Alpha 2 is a stable development release and a milestone on the way to the upcoming Release 1.
For this year's Google Summer of Code™ program, we at Haiku have been allocated seven students!
Initially, we were allocated six students, but through a combination of good fortune and due diligence of our administrator Matthew Madia, an extra slot was allocated in the final days! In 2010, 367 mentoring orgs applied and there were 5539 proposals submitted by students.
Of those, Haiku is one of 152 accepted organizations
and had 26 submitted proposals.
In this installment, we are proud to announce Ingo Weinhold's contract,
a brief summary of our donation history, and a new method for accepting donations.
A newly-developed hardware driver will allow Haiku to access multiple serial ports via a PCI serial card. The new “pc_serial” driver was commissioned by TuneTracker Systems and is being donated to the Haiku user community.
Several hot topics are covered in this update; new development contracts,
changes to our Haiku Code Drive program, and some notes about our immediate
finances.
