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June 1st Thank You Award
Written by Karl vom Dorff   
Saturday, 24 May 2008

Time flies by! It's already time to think about some new candidates for our Thank You Award.

Thankfully, Humdinger reminded me of this month's award, and he's suggested the following:

1. Michael Lotz (mmlr)
He's working on many, mostly low-level, parts for Haiku. As Haiku's compiler guru he kept gcc2 usable for so long and was paving the way to the recent gcc2/4 mixture. Recently he enabled OHCI and is now working on the last missing features to complete Haiku's USB support.

2. Gerald Zajac
He's working on a very important aspect of the OS: drivers. He recently provided a driver to power S3's Trio 3D, Trio64, Virge and Savage cards. Next he'll work on ATI's Rage128 and Mach64. With his work many shelved computers could make a nice comeback with Haiku.

3. François Revol (mmu_man)
I'm not sure what the current state of Haiku regarding ppc is, but I regularly see commits by mmu_man regarding this architecture. I'm sure if Haiku ever does make it to ppc, it'll largely be thanks to him. He's also been steadily working on a usb webcam addon, amongst other things like posix compatibility.

4. Stefano Ceccherini (aka Jack Burton), for his work on: BMenus and related classes, Terminal's revamp, and the rest of his work.

5. Tako Lansbergen (0033) For his excellent work on bringing a very much needed native development IDE to Haiku (Niue).

Please leave us some comments with who you'd like to see here as a nominee (with why you believe so). The poll will begin on May 27th.





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33 said:

Is there a list available of earlier nominees, I have some thoughts about who should be nominated but I'm not sure whether they've been nominated/awarded before...
 
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Humdinger said:

Actually, I really think that there should be a "Hall of Fame" for our TYA winners. Right now, the awards come and go and are, apparently, forgotten.

33: These are the past winners: Axel Dörfler, Ingo Weinhold, the BeGeistert guys, the Bezilla guys

Everyone else is still eligable to be nominated, even if he was nominated before.
Just remember that the nomination has to be for a deed done since the last Thank You Award.
 
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karl said:

@Humdinger, absolutely right! There should be a list, or hall of fame as you suggest. I'll work on that.
 
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Humdinger said:

That's good, Karl! Thanks!

Maybe you should generally consider to restructure the Haikuware site. For my taste, there are too many sidebars left and right on every page of Haikuware. Maybe it would be wise to separate parts more clearly: News, Files, Bounties, Thank You Award, Forum.

Back on topic:
I think it may be more difficult this time to come up with candidates for the TYA, because there are so many little things going on right now. Many bugfixes, many patches. But not many really big things that totally stand out. As non-coder I miss many things of course. OTOH, it could also be a sign that Alpha1 is right around the corner... smilies/smiley.gif

Regards
Humdinger
 
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Zaranthos said:

I don't know how I could pick one over the other of the two you've listed. I'm sure I'll have Haiku on a computer with some old graphics chipset at some point so I can't live without that contribution. USB and other low level stuff? Who could live without that? How to choose? smilies/shocked.gif
 
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karl said:

@humdinger, I've added a list of the previous winners on the thank you award tab in the bounty section. i'll prettify it later! the website will see a major overhaul before the year's end. no worries. i'll be looking for feedback once i get a test version up and running.

@zaranthros, tough choices indeed! i'm having tough choices with picking my team for the euro 2008 fantasy football game, but it has to be done smilies/grin.gif
 
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thenerd said:

Those are some good choices already. I agree with the hall of fame as well. It would be good to have a place to honor the previous winners smilies/smiley.gif
 
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@zaranthros: Well, you /could/ vote tactically: Michael Lotz is a Sulton of Code. He's bound to do something amazing the moment you blink. Not to belittle Gerald! mmlr just has an amazing track record...

@33: Time's running out. Where are your candidates? smilies/smiley.gif
Two candidates is a bit pathetic considering the commit list traffic...

Regards
Humdinger


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Humdinger said:

Thanks, Karl, for the Hall of Fame thing and your website revamp efforts!

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@zaranthros: Well, you /could/ vote tactically: Michael Lotz is a Sulton of Code. He's bound to do something amazing the moment you blink. Not to belittle Gerald! mmlr just has an amazing track record...

@33: Time's running out. Where are your candidates? smilies/smiley.gif
Two candidates is a bit pathetic considering the commit list traffic...

Regards
Humdinger

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Humdinger said:

oops... Something funny happened with the last post.
 
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karl said:

I think I'd like to add mmu_man....
 
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oscar said:

Just remember that the nomination has to be for a deed done since the last Thank You Award.


Mmm, can't we "bend" this rule a little?

I would like to propose Stefano Ceccherini (aka Jack Burton), for his work on: BMenus and related classes, Terminal's revamp and the rest of his work (http://cia.vc/stats/author/jackburton).
 
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