News

Haiku Lecture at Open Source Event in Brazil

News posted on Sun, 2006-10-01 08:24

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Under the sponsorship of Google, BFS Team lead engineer Bruno Albuquerque is scheduled to give a Haiku-related lecture at the upcoming Encontro Mineiro de Software Livre 2006 (Minas Gerais Open Source Forum 2006) to be held on October 10, 11 and 12 at the Ouro Preto City Convention Center. Titled "Haiku OS -- Challenges of Creating an Operating System", the lecture will introduce Haiku with a focus on the technical challenges and the motivations behind the creation of the project. The talk is scheduled for October 12 at 10:00 AM (auditorium #1).

Icon Contest: What's Next?

News posted on Thu, 2006-09-28 05:51

September 23 was the last day of the rating period for the Haiku Icon Contest. We want to thank the authors of the great artistic work submitted to the contest, as well as those who took the time to rate the icons. Interest in the contest was very high, as reflected by the more than two thousand unique visitors that made their voice heard during the three week rating period.

Haiku Icon Contest: Time's up! Go Rate Them!

News posted on Sun, 2006-09-03 04:00

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Time is up for the Haiku Icon Contest submissions, and it is now everybody's chance to make their voice heard. Head over to the rating page, and tell us what you think about the fourteen gorgeous icon sets that were submitted to the contest. In the rating page you can view the icon sets side by side for comparison purposes, as well as preview each icon set on a virtual desktop.

During the rating period, which lasts until September 23, an open discussion will be held in the Haiku mailing list, as a brainstorming exercise that will give us input leading to the final Haiku icon design guidelines. So, everyone has a double opportunity to influence the outcome, one by rating the submitted artwork, and the other through the discussion on the mailing list. The guidelines coming out of the rating and discussions will provide the base for the creation of the final artwork, so be sure to participate in both.

HaikuBounties.org donations to Haiku

News posted on Sun, 2006-08-27 04:00

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We owe a long due recognition to a Haiku contributor who came up with some great ideas, implemented them, and turned them into much needed funding for our project. We are referring to Karl vom Dorff, creator of HaikuBounties.org, a website where contributors can make monetary donations for specific areas of development, and developers can take coding challenges in exchange for the donated bounties. Karl started HaikuBounties.org early this year, and through the course of just a few months, he was able to raise close to $2000!

Marketing: We are all in this together

News posted on Wed, 2006-08-23 04:00

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One of the toughest challenges among people interested in Haiku is the lack of accurate information about the project, as well as documentation. This is particularly bad for people outside of the English-speaking world. There are initiatives within the Haiku Project to rectify this situation, and we are already seeing these efforts gradually coming to fruition. For example, a new Haiku website is now being worked on, which is designed to provide more and better information, and to make Haiku more accessible to more potential contributors.

Marcom For Fun

News posted on Fri, 2006-08-18 12:00

marketing, birthday

Happy 5th Birthday, Haiku! Has it been five years, already? Seems like just yesterday. Let's celebrate with a new article. :)

Welcome, IBM. Seriously.
Apple created an ad with the above text when the IBM PC came out. That was pretty bold, considering that IBM had a market cap hundreds of times that of Apple at that time. That is the sort of marketing that either makes a huge splash or flops badly. Apple has consistantly had this sort of bold marketing, and has mostly splashed.

Clarifying the Haiku Icon Contest

News posted on Wed, 2006-08-16 22:18

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Since it appears that there may have been some confusion about the recently announced Haiku Icon Contest , we want to make a few clarifications in order to clear up any doubts about the contest.

The objective of the Haiku Icon Contest is to help develop design guidelines for the eventual creation of a full Haiku Icon Set. Just to give you an idea, the guidelines would look something like the Tango guidelines, but would be specific to Haiku.

Help needed: Web Design

News posted on Sun, 2006-08-06 04:00

drupal, website, help

Please help us create a nice theme for our new website which is based on Drupal, a popular community-oriented content management system with emphasize on navigation based on tags and relations instead of a static page tree.

The website's structure is already in place (it's what you see in front of you). All we need is a nice theme.

You may add a smaller quick-links navbar for some of the main navigation entries (e.g.: Donate and Contact), but you are free to use any scheme you like. Try to make navigation as easy and obvious as possible.

In addition to the above requirements we have a little wish list for our theme: