Program overview

The Haiku Code Drive program was thought out on the basis of the two following premises:

• Give the community an opportunity to make donations against tangible goals.
• Allow the community to directly influence where the donated funds go.

This is how the Haiku Code Drive 2008 program is going to work:

• We have come up with the following list of candidates and their projects from the students that could not make it into the GSoC and expressed their desire to participate.
• We are asking the community to support the program by making donations to a common fund.
• We will then hold an open poll so that the community can vote for the student/project they want the donated funds to go to.
• How many and which of the students are sponsored is determined based on the total donations and the results of the poll.
• The selected candidates work on their projects, and in the end each receives a US$2,500 stipend (a milestone-based mid-term 50% payment is being considered).

Tentative calendar

Here is a tentative calendar for the Haiku Code Drive 2008. We may adjust the dates as we go along if necessary.

• May 15: list of candidates is published, and donation period starts.
• May 22: Poll starts.
• May 29: Poll ends.
• May 30: Final results are announced.
• June 1: Coding starts.
• August 31: Coding ends.
• September: Projects are evaluated by mentors/students.
• October: Students who completed their project successfully are paid stipend and awarded other goodies.

How many students will be sponsored?

We don't know. We are making this program community-funded in principle, so it will depend on the generosity of everyone. The more the funds we can raise, the more students we will be able to sponsor, the more Haiku will potentially benefit. If by adding a small difference we can sponsor one more student, we may the tap into the existing Haiku Inc. funds.

Where do I make my donation?

We are accepting donations via PayPal. Please click on the button below to make your contribution.

I haven't been updating the site for a while again , this hasn't been because of a lack of news (aside that there's no ZETA news). Haiku is still growing and I was pleased with how the system feels and reacts the other day when I installed it native.

I've been spending most of my time with porting the games for ZETA-Games. With Haiku being as it is at the moment I wanted to try out how and if the games would run on the system.

As I've been doing the post mostly alone here I am forwarding you to IsComputerOn for now until I can get some help here. Haiku communities are coming up and we can only applaud that.

Like what SkyOS is doing at the moment and where it's going? then you would like to know that it's already possible to do some gui desings in SkyOS, for this purpose there is a wiki page site online now.

The purpose of the wiki is to act as staging ground for short term fixes, as well as long term fundamental changes to the graphical user interface (GUI) for SkyOS. This website acts like a specification for suggested and upcoming minor GUI changes.

Since build 6795 of SkyOS, it has been possible to customize various aspects of the WindUI parameters by use of the DataCollectionEditor.

SkyOS wiki

Niels Reedijk aka nielx made his Haiku presentation on T-DOSE last sunday for a very interested crowd. As a closure he posted his conclusions on the Haiku-os website for all of us to read.

Take a look and read up on his experience as a public reader. ;) Great job done Niels, hope I can attend next time !!

T-DOSE III conclusion

ENOSIG announced to make some Haiku time on their next meeting (below you can find some info regarding who ENOSIG is) - Thanks Joost for the heads up ;). Always a good idea for those in the area to step in and check it out.

Other then Haiku they intend to demo some other opensource projects like syllable. Anyway check out the mailinglist and step in at "vredesoase" van Woon/werk-pand Burgers (http://www.hertogstaat.nl/), Hertogstraat 2, Eindhoven, tel 040-2113953.
Giving a note in the mailinglist is apreciated but not required ... all visitors are welcome!!

ENOSIG is a group of people who are, some way or another, involved in free software (some like to refer to this as "Open Source", Linux and Mozilla are two well-known examples of free software) and live in or near Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

We want to form a platform for various activities around free software. Everybody is invited to join us.

For now, we have a website and a mailing list. Once in a while we have meetings; these are announced on the mailing list, and (hopefully) on the dedicated meetings page.

If you want to know more, or want to stay informed about what's going on, please use the mailing list.

We maintain a list of similar projects in Eindhoven and The Netherlands.

If you'd want to contact someone privately on Enosig matters, mail to the info address in the enosig.org domain.

ENOSIG mailinglist
ENOSIG website

Good news for the SkyOS beta testers, a new build with the new C++ API has been released with lots of news.

This build features a complete new multimedia framework (the ISS), automatic file type sniffing, a new Media Center, new Panel, updated Viewer, new Application Manager and various other applications using the new C++ API. Furthermore: 28 additional API Classes, new and updated libraries, customizable WindUI theme, 220+ fixed bugs including critical boot bug fixes.

Read up on the full story at: http://www.skyos.org/?q=node/624

On saterday 7th october GSoC was held and a the first news hit the scene at: