OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

[Andre Garzia]

Wayne,

You know, I've meet personally with Bernd Korz, even had dinner with  
the guy. He was very decent and many friends worked for yT.  Its sad  
to see what happened to them, I don't think I'll ever see Bernd  
again. Anyway, Haiku is growing fast, even firefox is running now...  
maybe this year or the next we'll achieve a beta or something like that.

And yes, I was bugging Bernd and others since forever to create a  
good language such as an xTalk for the system, I told him that a  
platform is as strong as its developers base, that is true for the  
Newton that has such strong developers that without Newton OS source  
or help from apple, they were able to add FAT support, Web Servers,  
Wifi, even an emulator... and they are now planning for colors,  
COLORS!!!!

we need more languages such as rev on niche operating system, if the  
users are not promoted to creative users/developers, there's no  
chance for them to survive...

andre




On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:56 PM, wayne durden wrote:

> Congrats Andre:
>
> Beos was great,  Have watched Yellow Tab flame out and am hopeful  
> Haiku
> makes it to release!  Of course then you are going to have to get  
> an xtalk
> implemented for it....
>
> Wayne
>
> On 4/12/07, Andre Garzia <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> I am pleased to say that I was accepted as a student in the google
>> summer of code program. For those that don't know, the summer of code
>> is an initiative from google that works like this: Google approve a
>> number of mentoring organizations, students submit projects to this
>> organizations, some students are selected and will pass the summer
>> implementing such project, and google pays for it! :-D
>>
>> This year 6,200 students applied and ~900 were selected, and I am one
>> of them!!!! :-D
>>
>> I will be working with the Haiku Operating System project <http://
>> haiku-os.org> which was a pet project of mine since forever. Haiku is
>> a free implementation of an OS that is binary compatible with BeOS
>> from Be Inc and it is much like old BeOS. My task will be implement a
>> network preferences application, like the network settings prefs
>> panel from Mac OS X. Haiku has a young tcp/ip stack and while Haiku
>> is a full blown GUI Operating System, it lacks such preference panel.
>> I'll spend the next summer implementing that (as well as my other
>> projects and contracts).
>>
>> For more info on GSoC visit <http://code.google.com/soc>
>> For more info on Haiku Summer Of Code <http://code.google.com/soc/
>> haiku/about.html>
>> For more info on Haiku <http://www.haiku-os.org>
>>
>> Cheers
>> andre
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