When Daily Haiku was initially started, it's focus was to be a storage area for Haiku Image files, however, with the Haiku project now getting sponsored hosting from Dream Host and have now setup the very cool Haiku Files, our site's goal became moot and so, we went through an overhaul.
I now present to you - Daily Haiku, your one-stop site for all Haiku News via draggable RSS feeds. We plan to make the site more customizable in the future, so keep your eyes peeled in 2008. Until, then enjoy.
We've just had word from François Revol aka mmu_man, that Haiku has been accepted for a booth (1 table, 2 chairs, 1 mains socket) and will be sharing the table with another project, OpenAguila.
FOSDEM will take place on the 23rd and 24th February 2008 in Brussels, Belgium.
I've been using Wordpress for awhile now, dealing with all the crap whenever you need to upgrade. However, the last upgrade has broken all the categories and for me that's the straw that broke the camel's back.
So, I'm going on record to say Wordpress Sucks ... and I'll be moving to a new CMS over the next month or so - definitely by the new year. You might be thinking, well what are you going to move to ?
I was asking myself that question. I've used a lot of popular CMS's like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, etc and each one has suffered from problems on upgrades or in Drupal's case is just plain awful. I've actually been working on my own, on and off for awhile and I feel now is the time (cue Scott Brown track).
"Haiku Inc. recently received from Google a check for $4,000 for its participation in the last Google Summer of Code 2007 program. This is ten percent of the total $40,000 that Google disbursed to sponsor the eight Haiku related projects alloted for GSoC 2007.
We want to thank Google for giving us the opportunity to participate in the program for the first time this year, and hope they will consider us again for next year."
With all the various Haiku events that happen around the world, I thought I'd take the time to collate all this information and group them month by month. So, here goes ...
January - BG (Germany) / BeGeistert (Germany)
February - SCALE (California, USA) / FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium)
March - Numerica (France)
April -
May - Google Summer of Code (thru til August)
June -
July - WalterCon ?
August - Linux Picn*x (California, USA) / Haiku Anniversary
September -
October - T-DOSE (The Netherlands)
November - Kansai (Japan) / BeGeistert (Germany)
December -
I thought I'd better put this on the Haiku site, so I've created the new Haiku Events page.
Yes, you read well: we will not only have a booth (for the second consecutive year), but Haiku developer and “Googler” Bruno G. Albuquerque will also be presenting our project and operating system as one of the few featured speakers that SCaLE invites every year among prominent members of the open source community.
This is the first time Haiku is awarded a speaker spot at a renowned open source event, and we are proud of this achievement."
I've setup a new site that will contain Daily Haiku HD Images, stored with their version number in the filename. At this stage, I'm not sure how many images I'll store here, probably as many as I can fit :)
There is also an RSS Feed you can subscribe to, showing the latest files available.
I enquired if one of their mini-conference rooms was available, but unfortunately, they are not. The closing date for submissions for these rooms was in July - I've diarized that for next year, however, we have been asked to sign up for a Birds of a Feather session.
"We will have some rooms available at the conference to run Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions during the week. You will be able to book a BoF space at the conference proper and I'd like to invite you to do so."
With that in mind, I started putting together some prices on what it would cost to get to this event and put it on:-
Item||Cost
Accomodation||$35 per Night to $150 per Night
Flights||$178 Return from Brisbane
Food||$20 to $100 per Day
I estimate about $350 AU to $450 AU for myself to travel from Brisbane to Melbourne and stay for two days. Of course, I'll have to get the time off work as well.
Stippi aka Stephan Assmus has posted on the Haiku web site about the current transition phase that is underway. There's been a lot of discussion behind closed down and it was decided that now was the time to get the community involved, a call to arms, so to speak.
"A few hours ago I had my Haiku talk on the Dutch Open Source event T-DOSE, and I'm still glowing all over. The attendence was above all my expectations, around 25 people were in the room. And despite of the last minute all night changes I had to make, the speech went fluently. Someone made a few pictures, which I hope to be able to post soon, and more importantly, I'm on tv! I'm on Sunday around 11 AM, so have a look!
I'd sincerely like to thank the T-DOSE organisers, Jeroen Baten and Jean-Paul Saman, for making this event possible. Read on for more!"
Here's a screenshot of CheckItOut running on Haiku version 22479.
As you can see, the application appears to look the business, with a few font issues and the lack of transparency on the picture, but unforuntately, it's all downhill from here. Instead of the app invoking the CVS command, the Terminal pops up and nothing happens.
As Haiku is still pre-alpha, these things can be expected. I'll look into it some more and will in due course post on Haiku's bugtracker.
I decided to dig out and dust off one of my old BeOS drives, mainly because I was looking for my HIDE code. Anyway, I found it and all the rest of my code, so when I saw that one of my published apps on BeBits - CheckItOut wasn't working, due to a change in the way you access SourceForge servers via CVS. So I thought, it was my duty to fix the bug and update the app.
Now that I've got my HIDE code and thirst for BeAPI again ... who knows what the future might bring.
On the 8th September, I attended a local Unix user group called HUMBUG, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
This was their Annual General Meeting, which was very much an informal gathering of 34 unix users and with the Haiku presence we had, we definitely made an impression; certainly more people know about Haiku than yesterday, and that's gotta be a good thing.
Earlier that day when I was driving to the University, I got stuck behind this white hatchback, which had the license plate letters KDL. I thought, this was some sort of omen, however, I can announce there were no hiccups during the demos I gave.
"Happy 6th Birthday Haiku OS !!! It's that time once again, the Haiku Podcast - Episode #10.
I'm now back from travelling around the globe, we've got tons of news for you this month, as well as my impressions of FalterCon, the impromtu Haiku gathering that took place at Linux Picn*x, our BeBits choice app and what we'll be up to very shortly ..."
FalterCon 2007 took place on August 11, as part of the Linux 16th Anniversary Picnic held at the Sunnyvale Baylands Park in California, USA. For more information, check out http://www.myhaiku.org/faltercon/
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"We will be gathering to get to know each other, do some much needed advocacy/PR for Haiku (we will bring leaflets and CDs to hand out), exchange information about the project and, of course, have some fun!
Some of us will bring our laptops with us, and some network gear (ie., wifi router, cables, etc.) so that we can access the net from Haiku. Keep an eye on the forums for the details as they develop."
So, head on over to their site to check out more info.
In the case of the OzHUG Haiku Edition, it does. They recently held a poll from April til June on the size of the Haiku distro they plan to distribute. With the results in, the majority are in favour of a 600mb image, with even some users wanting it larger.
The OzHUG Team have gone over the results and have decided that the users have spoken and 600mb will be the size of choice, also meaning the team can stock the distro with a lot more goodies for the users. :)
After being away for 6-7 weeks travelling, I came back to find the BeOS Build Factory machine was not in a good state. Everytime, it tries to checkout the source, it crashes. After spending a week trying to fix the issue, I've decided that due to the other issues such as poor networking on net_server, I'm now setting up a Linux Build Factory machine.
I decided to pick Ubuntu 7.04, as it's gained a lot of hype recently and someone had posted in May that they built Haiku on it. The new factory is now checking out all the source, so hopefully, it should be operational in the next day or two.
Update 13/6: Run into a few issues, but so far, I've been able to overcome them thanks to gotaku on the IRC channel. Jam is built, so are the cross-compile tools. Unfortunately, it's not letting me update the source I checked out yesterday, so I'm forcing it to get the source again.
Update 14/6: Source is down and it's now jammin' away quite nicely. Hopefully, I'll have a new Haiku HD Image and Haiku VMware Image ready for consumption soon ...
Update 15/6: Things seem to be okay. I've now updated the VMware Virtual Appliance site to link to the daily built vmware image.
Update 19/6: Today, I managed to spruce up the Haiku Build Factory page, by converting it from a standalone site to drupal blocks and pages. I've also left off the jam packages at the moment, as they're not currently being updated.
I've just uploaded the latest version of Haiku in VMWare format.
This was created from Build 20610 and has been tested as working. Networking is still very basic, so don't expect too much just yet. Hopefully, the GSoC will add a lot of more stability and functionality to our beloved OS.
"Yesterday was our big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project."
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This week, I haven't had much hands on with Haiku (an Exchange server at work has been causing me no end of grief and still is). But in the northern hemisphere, things have been going well at the Haiku Tech Talks at Google.
Long time Haiku developer and OpenBFS (God) Team leader Bruno Albuquerque (BGA), who has been working with Google since last year, made arrangements for these talks, giving Haiku a very unique opportunity to introduce the Haiku Project to many Google engineers.
And Google engineers are happy, switched-on people, just check out this video if you doubt it ;)
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