On the Haiku, Inc. mailing list, Ingo Weinhold proposed a development contract.
You may know Ingo better by his commit id "bonefish", as he recently merged his POSIX signals development branch back into trunk as r42116.
His proposal is for 160 hours relating to furthering package management with a €2,000 EUR payout.
That is roughly a meager $18 USD per hour!
As many have likely noticed, our trusty mailing lists hosted on freelists.org are currently down.
It seems freelists.org is having some kind of critical DNS issue which hasn’t yet been resolved. We have been unable to find out much info beyond that. If anyone has more details, please feel free to mention it in the comments.
However, since Haiku has a lot of mailing lists on freelists.org, this does drastically impact development and community discussion, we may have to relocate our mailing lists to another service if the problem doesn’t get resolved soon.
A big and heartfelt thank-you goes out to Haikuware and its supporters. Over this weekend, a $2,002.09 donation has been made to Haiku, Inc. on behalf of Haikuware’s financial contributors. The current funds available to Haiku, Inc. are now over $13,000 dollars!
This donation will be earmarked for contractual work on any of the R1 requirements. Additionally, there are intentions to use other finances to supply developers with the necessary hardware to resolve issues and improve support for them.
On this first of April, the main Haiku developers wish to announce an important change that will likely increase user friendliness of the overall Haiku experience. We are a bit late to report the news due to the excitement and the required planification work, but we hope everyone will enjoy the move.
We are happy to announce that the trademark registration process of the HAIKU logo® has finally been completed (pdf) by Haiku, Inc. Over the last year or two, Haiku, Inc. has been seeking to cleanup the Haiku trademark usage. The official registration of the logo was a major part of that process.There are several benefits of having Federal trademark registration, which include fortifying the protection of the mark and entitling additional methods of resolving trademark infringers.
As seen with the poll for the must-have features for R1, the lack of proper package management is clearly one of the items that are delaying the release of R1. More importantly though, as package management is an actual lacking feature (as opposed to a bug in an existing implementation), even the beta cycle is being blocked as a result. In order to progress, Haiku needs package management.
Haiku has been selected as one of twenty organizations to participate in the 2010 Google Code-In!
From the Google announcement[1]:
Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible, is starting on November 22, 2010. We are inviting students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the organizations participating this year. These tasks include:
- Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
- Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents
- Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing
- Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
- Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions
- Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more
- Translation: Tasks related to localization
- User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
Since we were picked on November 5th, we have been busy getting our task list in order and putting together a good group of Haiku mentors for this. Many of the tasks are for translations, so we may still need a few more mentors to cover some of those tasks. If you are interested in mentoring please let us know on the mailing list. For a preview of some of the possible Haiku tasks, you can check the wiki page we used for gathering ideas[2].
In the past four years, the Haiku Project has had both the honor and privilege
of being a Mentoring Organization in Google Summer of Code™. This is a wonderful opportunity for the Project,
as it exposes Haiku to many potential youthful and energetic minds that are interested in developing Open Source Software. Even more exciting, it provides a unique opportunity of generating income for the Project while growing a handful of carefully selected students into knowledgeable and potential long-term contributors.
DaaT over at IsComputerOn reminds us that today is Haiku’s 9th birthday!
I guess we were so busy, we forgot to post something… shame on us!
Axel has now completed his contract, and intends to pursue the Haikuware bounty for implementing the missing bits of WiFi support over the next weeks. Your generous donations are allowing us to continue contracting Haiku developers for money. Thank-You-All for supporting these efforts! Stephan has submitted (edit: and has been accepted for) a development contract -- 160 hours at $2000 USD. Originally he proposed for additional features relating to WebPositive.
