FOSDEM 2008
Manette.be - December 5th, 2007
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It has been confirmed, Haiku will attend this years’ FOSDEM. François “mmu_man” Revol is the one who has asked for the booth and received one to be shared with the OpenAguila.org project (an open source company management software for very small to medium sized enterprises). So, what is the FOSDEM ? The acronym means Free and Open-source Software Developpers’ European Meeting. It is a yearly event which takes place in Brussels/Belgium. The 2008’s edition is scheduled on the 23-24 february’s weekend. The list of stands is available here. You’ll find there our beloved OS but also Syllabe and other prestigious names like Mozilla,Gnome, Kde, Fedora, CentOS, etc. François will be there, Niels Reedijk and Remi (BeOSfrance) also. And, as an official “.be” guy, you should see me there also :-)
After browsing BeBits for the first time since long I stumbled upon a real neat looking app. hey68you created a application/file launcher very much like the dock in MacOS called BeDock. BeDock can be configured to look just like you want it, with a transparent shelf and all.
I didn’t test it myself jet but according to BeBits Talkback it works very well. There are still some minor glitches but I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon. Check out the cool screenshots here. This is the kind of app that makes me want to blow the dust of my Be machine and boot R5 to test it. For those of you who are curious how this is done, BeDock is written in YAB and the source is open!
Thanks to ICO for the scoop, the date for BeGeistert 2008 is set. BeGeistert will be held in the weekend of January 12, in The Düsseldorf Youth Hostel, Düsseldorfer Straße 1, in (duh) Düsseldorf. For only 25 Euro you will get two days of various presentations, workshops, lunch and generally a lot of fun with other Be enthusiasts. So whether you are a developer, user or just a fan, go there and check it out! … In other news, over at HaikuWare the bi-monthly ‘Thank You Award’ vote is open. Until December 1st you can help decide who will win the award plus the accompanying $50. This months nominees are: Go here to cast your vote.
Leszek Lesner recently wrote us an EMail about a new partitioning app for ZETA called Disk Manager (also available on BeBits). Like PartitionMagic and other similar applications, it can be used to delete, convert, and create partitions using several common filesystems. It also has the ability to non-destructively resize several common types of partitions (not BFS, though). Currently the application requires ZETA, as it makes use of library files that aren’t present on other versions of BeOS.
A new editor has joined BeOSNews recently – please welcome Manette.be, who made his first post earlier this month. Welcome aboard! We undoubtedly gain an instant credibility boost from having a poster with an EMail address on a “.be” domain. Not only that, but our other regular editor – 0033 – has also returned and posted a couple of new items recently. Welcome back! Now I can refer to BeOSNews with plural pronouns without feeling quite as schizophrenic.
So not only a booth like last year, but also Bruno G. as one of the few speakers at the event presenting Haiku to the masses! Haiku is proud to have obtained a speaker spot and they should be. SCaLE is a huge opensource venue and the right place to attract more users and foremost developers to Haiku. If you happen to be in the area around February 9 than make sure not to miss this, Haiku needs it’s fans at gatherings like these!
As you probably already have read @ Haiku-os.org, Ryan Leavengood is making huge progress on porting Webkit to Haiku. The core files are now compiling and although the port is not yet complete this is great news. Currently browsing is pretty much lacking from Haiku, Opera kind of works but that’s version 3.62 (the latest version of opera for the other platforms is 9.24), Firefox seems to works a little bit for some people, but definitely not for the average joe, Netpositive is simply to outdated. A complete Webkit port means that a native Webbrowser for Haiku suddenly comes within reach. Ryan started his work on the port back in July after a bounty was opened at Haikuware.com, the bounty has already raised over 870 dollars since. He plans to complete the targets set for the bounty next week. After that he will start to work on an application which will be able to use Webkit to render basic HTML. In the end the work should result in the development of an up to date webbrowser, with the help of other developers of course. The work on this port is massive so thumbs up for Ryan, the bounty is still open for donating! I’m sure that there are people reading this who are interested in helping with the work on webbrowsing for Haiku, in the end R1 is nowhere without a proper internet experience. btw, I known that I haven’t posted anything since a long time (May 9th to be precise) and I’m in shame for that but with the days getting shorter and more time being spend inside I might find more time for writing posts. I can’t promise though ;)
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