I know I've been pretty quiet on the Haiku front for awhile, but with Australia Day just around the corner, I'm back with my latest Haiku project I've been tinkering with ... HaikuNAS.

The goal is to create a fully functional Haiku based NAS (Network Attached Storage) device, which can be used headless and operated remotely by a web interface.

Like Haiku, this project is Alpha and is a little rough around the edges at the moment, but we're working on that.

For more information, head on over to the site.

Since Alpha 1 of Haiku has been released, I've been able to get Haiku to install on my MSI Wind and with that my development juices have started to flow again.

Yes that's right, I've been getting back into the swing of coding on the Haiku (BeOS) platform and C++ coding. So, what have I been working on -- you ask ? Well, Rhino.

So, what's Rhino you ask ? It was originally designed for backing up your Haiku's Settings files, but it now backs up your Home folder as well.

On Sunday 23rd August at 9:00AM, the Australian Haiku Developers and Users (Virtual) Conference - Haiku Down Under kicked off for the 2nd year in a row.


Unforunately, the lack of support from the Australian users and developers meant I had to come up with the content, as well as run the event. This isn't what I was originally intending to do. I would have preferred to be the MC / Organizer of the event.

Anyway, with this in mind, the crown jewel of content I had was a special 50 minute Haiku Podcast episode featuring myself, TheNerd, Urias McCullough and Matt Madia. I was actually still editing this podcast at 2AM :(


Technical difficulties plagued the entire event. From IE browser plugin issues with uStream, presentation slides being cut off, the strange echo and last but not least the uStream stream dying half way through the event. In other words, the streaming was an utter steaming pile of fail.


With that said, I managed to rip the audio from the recording and I have made a re-edited video with additional demo footage, which is available on Vimeo.

Congratulations to the winners of the prizes:-

Urias McCullough - WonderBrush Single User License
Colin G - Haiku T-Shirt
OCO - Haiku T-Shirt


All in all, there were 12 people in attendance (1 live and 11 virtual), which isn't the best turn out, so I would love to see us double or triple these numbers for next year.

Haiku is pleased to announce that Google has allotted them with six students for this year's Summer of Code.

Internationalization support for Haiku
* Student: Adrien Destugues
* Mentor: Oliver Tappe

CIFS client Implementation
* Student : Obaro Ogbo
* Mentor : Bruno Albuquerque

Port Haiku to ARM architecture
* Student : Johannes Wischert
* Mentor : Francois Revol

Update DriveSetup/Disk_Device
* Student : Bryce Groff
* Mentor : Ingo Weinhold

Integrate WebKit in Haiku native browser
* Student : Maxime Simon
* Mentor : Ryan Leavengood

Implementing ZeroConf support for Haiku with mDNSResponder
* Student : jie ma
* Mentor : Axel Dörfler

Excellent news for Haiku and we wish the students and mentors the best of luck over the coming months.