Bluetooth News
Manette.be - January 14th, 2009
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 First things first, for those who are still in hollidays, let me recall you that he finished phase 1 of his project and earned the Haikuware bounty associated.  Congratulation to him for his long and difficult work ! Now there is a new blog entry at his place entitleled “Preference & Next Steps“. In there you can read that he is focusing on three items to prepare his journey for the second phase.
He also started to work on the preference application for bluetooth. There is a screenshot, some explainaitons and also a request for comments on it. More information here.
After a quick round of gathering ideas, Karl from haikuware has opened a poll to decide on a new coding bounty to open.
In the past Haikuware already awarded over USD 4000,- (!) to various projects. Currently there are two projects open for donation, Flash and Documentation and when the poll closes a third will be added. Popular poll options include:
Voting is done here and don’t forget to donate, the bounties can be just the little stimulation for devs to actually sit down and fix something!
As reported on the Northern California Haiku Users Group blog, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) has secured a booth at the seventh annual SCaLE Expo. Becoming a bit of a tradition, Haiku has been showcasing at SCaLE in the previous two years with a lot of positive attention from the visitors. Jorge already has most of the equipment to create a nice Haiku booth, including a projector + big screen to showoff Haiku but is still looking for people to man the booth. Following the idea of some collegue attendents there is also the idea to create some sort of ‘table cover’, check the Haiku mailinglists if you can help out.
Although the Southern California Linux Expo, as the name hints, is a Linux targeted conference it’s crowded with OS fanatics, people seeking for Windows alternatives and other geeks. The perfect stage to showcase Haiku. It would be even better if some sort of Alpha 0.1 could be printed as live cd’s to hand out. SCaLE 7x is held in Los Angeles, California in the weekend of February the 21st. You will find Haiku at booth no. 4. For more information point and click here.
For the latest and best news you surely visit beosnews.com, but sometimes you might want to keep up with the developments around BeOS/Haiku in your native tongue. Thankfully I’ve come across a notice on the Haiku general mailinglist announcing the rebirth of the Spanish Haiku community. Without further due you can surf to huikues.blogpost.com for up-to-date Haiku news en español. Also very up-to-date and with lot’s of news items is Haiku Colombia. Than there is the Russian front, with a lot of debate recently, in the spotlight are two Russian Haiku related websites, haiku-os.info, a Haiku fan site with screencaps, videos, howto’s and such. And haikuos.info, which offers a Russion translation of the latest BeOS and Haiku news. Attacked by some conspiracy, both sites (maintained by Pavel Kiryukhin) are well designed and a good resource for the former and rather large Russian Be community.
*Update Following to the rumour haiku-os.info caused on the Haiku mailinglists the maintainer decided to stop offering downloadable live-cd’s from his site until Haiku reaches Alpha 1. Quoted from the website:
I’ve spent some time in Russia this summer so I guess you’ll have to trust me on the translation..;)
In the EMail that Leszek Lesner pointing us to his Haiku video presentation, he also gave us a heads-up about the availability of an RC1 download of ZevenOS (Leszek is one of the developers of ZevenOS). ZevenOS, which we reported on this past spring, is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that runs a version of the XFCE desktop, modified to have a BeOS-esque look-and-feel (it was originally developed under the name “Zebuntu“).
A few days back, Leszek Lesner sent in an EMail to let us know that he’s posted a video presentation of the Haiku pre-Alpha release(s). Some of you may have already seen the video, as it’s also linked from the Haiku Movies page on haiku-os.org. In addition to providing a good overview of what Haiku is, it also demonstrates a neat feature of OpenTracker that I was (embarrassingly) unaware of – the ability to copy-paste attributes between files.
A few months back, I posted a request for several apps that I had lost due to a hard drive failure. One of those apps was Dockbert and I owe Oscar Lesta many thanks for sending along a zip file with several Dockbert binaries, along with an archive of the source code. The only downside was that I could not get Dockbert to run, except with older releases of OpenTracker – which meant missing out on some of the newer OT features. After some trial and error, I did eventually manage to compile Dockbert against the most recent R5 release of OpenTracker (5.3.0 – it appears that OT became part of / integrated with the Haiku project after that point). In case there are any other Dockbert fans in the same situation, I’ve made the binary available for download – and added a link to the BeBits entry.
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