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Bounties

Have you ever wanted to contribute to the Haiku operating system but don't know how you should, or

don't like your options? Are donations just too general, and perhaps you'd like to know exactly where your money is going? Bounties may be the perfect answer! Haikuware Bounties are a community initiative to try to spur development and bring better hardware and software support to Haiku. So, show your support to individual or team developers and Haiku by contributing to a specific bounty from our list below:

Also, six times/year we're going to show our appreciation towards individuals that have contributed in any way to further Haiku's cause with a 'Thank You' merit award. It's a different way of contributing; check out our 'Thank You Award'.

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Bounty	Status	Developer	Deadline	Expiry	Target (USD)	Raised (USD)	Donate
Gallium	Assigned Status	Alexander von Gluck (kallisti5)	N/A		$2000	$2476.09 1st milestone achieved - (25% of $2440.17 sent) Balance: $1866.04
New bounty?: Read the 'Submit' tab first please!
Total funds awarded to Haiku & developers (including our TYA & HaikuBounties.org): $22,740.98

Definitions:

Bounty - The name of the bounty with a link to a description about the bounty.

Asteriks (*) - Having trouble deciding which bounty to donate to? The asteriks beside certain bounties denotes a bounty that is recommended by a Haiku developer! Click the asterik for the reference.

Status - A bounty can be open, pending or assigned: If it's 'Open', no developers have been assigned or bidded on the bounty. If it's 'Pending' then a developer has submitted an application to code for the project but has set a bounty target/bid that must be reached before they start (the cash pool in the bounty must reach the developer's specified amount). Other developers may outbid the initial developer's target/bid in a pending status. An 'Assigned' bounty means that a developer has accepted the level of donations in the bounty and has contributed his approved application; no new developers may apply unless the initial developer that applied agrees to a partnership and splitting of the bounty. Contributions through all three states may continue to encourage or show your appreciation to the development of Haiku software. Developers can apply or bid for a bounty by simply emailing the administrators through the 'dev bid' link under each bounty's status.

Developer - The name and profile link to the developer that has been assigned to the bounty.

Deadline - The date that the developer put forth in their bounty application to have the bounty completed by.

Expiry - The date that application to a bounty closes to developers (6 months after it started). After, any money collected in the failed bounty is moved into the general fund.

Target - An amount that an assigned developer has requested be fulfilled before they begin coding for the bounty. Multiple developers may bid on a bounty.

Amount - The amount of concurrent donations in the respective bounty.

Donate - Where you click to donate money to the respective bounty.

*For more elaboration, consult the rules.

Did you know the average annual salary for a software engineer in the United States is $66,000? That's $1200/week!

Statement:

July, 18th, 2007 - Jan. 3rd, 2012

Contributors:

This table shows all those that have contributed to the various bounties available on our site (The complete first name and first initial of your last name will be published here, unless notified otherwise). The actual values contributed without the PayPal fees subtracted are presented:

Bounty	Name & Amount
SATA Drivers	'Anonymous Friend of Haiku': $1000, Alexandre D: $30, Andrea B (OSDrawer): $50, Johannes L: $30, Daniel M: $20,
Haiku Drive Setup	Karl vD: $210, Sebastian B: $15, Greg G: $10, David F: $10, Martin W: $5
Haiku Bootman	Karl vD: $210, Sebastian B: $25,
CUPS Port	Giuseppe G: $200, 'Anonymous Friend of Haiku': $900,
Webkit Port	Chris T: $100, Karl vD: $110, NerfD Tech : $40, Sebastian B: $125, Gerald W: $25, Stella W: $20, Ioan, M. $162, Tako L. $1, Peter H.J $100, Urias M. $25, Petter H J $50, Andrea B: $100, Matt L: $50
NDIS Wrapper	Anonymous Friend of Haiku': $525, Tom S: $10, Doug, F: $52, Ferry B: $10.00
Macbook Support	Daniel M: $100, Joey M: $50, Karl vD: $110, Failed CUPS port to fill bounty, Pier F: $10
Bluetooth Stack - Phase I	Jared E: $30, Andrea B (OSDrawer): $100, Andrew M: $40, Failed Bootman, Failed Drive Setup, Failed NDIS, Remainder of CUPS. Frederik H: $25, Hubert H: $52, Richard S: $10, Matt M: $100
Flash Port	Hubert H. $324, Daniel M. $21, Eric A. $32.37, Stan G. $20, NerfD Tech: $19.09, Tako L. $5, Florian P: $25, Greg G. $40, Robert L: $20
Wireless Network Stack	Failed Macbook Bounty: $500, Andrew R. $10, Joerg, B. $30, Barna, B. $50, Haikuware: $150, Rene P: $50, Geoff T. $10, Flash Port fund (was completed) and funds donated to this bounty by the developer Adrian Panasiuk minus $38.20 for a Haiku Golf Shirt for him, and minus 15% which went to the Thank You Award, Failed Alpha Bug bounty was transferred to this bounty minus 15% to the Thank You Award, Fabian S: $15, Konrad C: $5, Andrea B: $60, Natalie M: $5, Tanausu G: $20, Ralph v W: $72.58, Mark S: $10, Geoff T: $20, Mark B: $30, Will S: $50, Edgar B: $20, Urias M: $25, Waldeck S: $5, John H: $15, Matt L: $15, Otto S: $20, Knut T: $10, John R: $20, Jean-Marc L: $5, Fabian S: $50, Oliver R: $8, Gregor R: $15, Pavel K: $6, Anti M: $3, Jean-Francois R: $20, Georg Drees: $10, Joquin P.T: $10, Hubert H: $20, T. J. W: $50, Oliver M: $20, Luke S: $10, Jurgen K: $50, Rene P: $20, George S: $30, Valentin C: $5, Regier, K: $10
Wifi Encryption Bounty	Karl vD: $100, Hubert H: $20, Szabolcs K: $20, Joshua R: $50, Daniel D: $10, Andrea B: $100, Jean-Marc: $8, Alexander P: $20, Francois G: $25, Ralph H: $48, Daniel D: $40, C. E: $20, Felix B: $5, Santiago L: $200, Shintaro S: $10, Jörg B: $30, Stefan L: $20, Nils G: $5, Christof B: $1000, Richard S: $13, Mathias D: $50, Marcin S: $22.23, Sebastian E A: $10, Sebastian H: $25, Piotr K: $2, Stefan L: $20, Maius M: $50, Daniel D: $15, Brandon B: $10, Maksim P: $1.50, Evandro S: $5.19, Nicolas C: $25, Sven W: $5, Wolfgang B: $40, Владимир Г: $5, Daniel B: $88.64, Pavel K: $5, Gregor B: $5, David E: $10, Urias M: $25, Patrick D: $100, Lidia S: $1, Michael P: $625.34
Gallium/3D	Haikuware: $1055, Jean-Marc L: $40, Konrad K: $10, Ben B: $20, Antti M: $5, Gregor B: $15, Daniel D: $25, Andrew H: $40, Brian D: $2.50, Evgeniy P: $10, Dzmitry M: $18, Boris B: $50, Ralph V: $50, Michael P: $704.34, Greg G: $20, Robson C: $30, Nicolas C: $15, Christopher R: $13, Greg G: $15, Thank You Award Contributors (Thank You Award Program retired, balance transfered to this bounty): $260.07, Andrew H: $50, Brad L: $25, Nicolás C. B: $10, Ilia S: $15, Greg G: $18, Greg G: $20
Gutenprint Port	Haikuware: $1055, Mattita T: $5, Mark S: $20, Matt M: $200, Daniel D: $20, Stella W: $50, Andrew H: $20, Nikita D: $15, Christof B: $500, Hubert H: $15, Philippe H: $40, Raitis S: $3, Andrea M: $10, Greg G: $25, Emmanuel J: $88.44, Matt M: $20
TV Drivers	Haikuware: $530, Vercu: $20, Otto S: $25, Michael P: $443.03, Marcin W: $5
Alpha Bugs	Failed Macbook Bounty: $250
Xbox Bounty	Geoff T: $75
PDF Viewer	Karl vD: $17, Matt M: $20, Martin N: $5, Marko O: $10, Rene P: $20, Nicolás B: $10, Matt L: $10, Peter S: $10, Robson C: $30, Gaukler Medieval Wares: $10, Antti M: $3, Hubert H: $15, Marius M: $50, Jeremy C: $5, Jean H: $7.21

Registering:

Assigned or pending developers that have taken on a code bounty are expected to register to three websites. Haikuware , for open communication between the bounty holders and contributors, OSDrawer where 3rd party projects (i.e Webkit, CUPS, NDIS ports) will be exclusively hosted, and to the Haiku Developer's Mailing List for help and inquiries. Oh, if you aren't a member already, and if you'd like to get paid for your completed work, then PayPal as well.

Formal Application:

Those that start bounties are usually not developers. Although we may be avid computer users, our knowledge of the inner workings of computer programming and hardware may be limited. Therefore, for example, we may know in general that Haiku needs PCMCIA support, but not what chipsets it will support. When a developer is interested in a particular bounty and consequently applies for the bounty, they are expected to research and write an application outlining exactly what they intend to accomplish with the bounty, and submit a deadline. We will then seek peer support for review of the developers submission and either accept, deny, or make adjustments to the proposal (we reserve the right to reject applications). The proposal will then be put on the bounty's site. Developer's should include the following in their proposal:

A background and summary of what they plan to accomplish written in plain English void of technical jargon.
A more precise technical summary and how they plan on achieving their results (i.e written from scratch, porting, with what tools will they use, etc).
A deadline.
Name and contact information. The following isn't absolutely necessary, but once you've registered, try to fill some information in your Haikuware member profile. Let us know who you are, schooling, work experience, hobbies, etc. Adding a picture is always nice too.

Please submit the application to Haikuware's admin by email.

Example Application:

For an example of how to write an application for a bounty, check out the Webkit Port bounty .

Developer Rules:

Developers must submit authentic work, or port existing software that is compatible with Haiku's license (if the software is intended to be contributed back to Haiku's source tree). It is up to the developer to ensure that they are writing compatible software, and further to follow licensing guidelines when porting software.
Once a bounty has been started by a developer, it's closed to other developers, unless the original applicant agrees to take on other developers. Note, it is up to this original applicant to determine how, if successful, the bounty would be split up. Pairs or multiple developers are welcome to apply for a single bounty, but it is up to you how to distribute the bounty; assign a team leader.
The source code and binaries to every bounty completed by a developer is to be released freely under a Haiku compatible license (MIT), except for commercial situations (See Rules/Legal #4), or in situations where the code has been ported under a different license.
In order to maintain the quality, integrity and succes of bounties at Haikuware, as of Oct. 1, 2010, all developers accepting a bounty job are required to submit quarterly progress reports and a detailed final summary report outlining how their initial goals/proposal(s) were/weren't fulfilled. Since the developer submits their own deadline, the amount of days required and outline by the developer to complete the work will be divided by four. Four intervals will be created from the start date of the bounty based on this. The developer will submit mandatory quarterly progress reports in blog format here at Haikuware based on these intervals. If the developer fails to submit a report, or is deemed not to be progressing, the bounty will be cancelled with zero compensation.
If a developer is unable to complete their bounty within their proposed deadline, the developer may be partially compensated for work completed or given an extension, but this is at the discretion of the bounty project maintainers.
Developers may either accept the value in the pool of a certain bounty, or they may first make a formal proposal to a bounty, and then set a target price for a bounty which needs to be fulfilled before they start work on the said bounty. If, in the event the suggested target isn't reached but the developer completes the bounty, he/she may opt to accept the current funds in the bounty.
Certain bounties may require coding outside of the actual bounty goal, i.e closing a bug in the memory manager to ensure your bounty works.
News release articles to 3rd party websites discussing aspects of the work completed on any bounties *should include mention of our bounty program, and a text link back to the program. We say should; it is not necessary, but please be considerate of the fact that it will help to promote our bounty program!

Conditions:

The above aren't options they are conditions, and are expected to be followed if the developer expects to be compensated!

More info:

Where can developers find more info about developing for the Haiku operating system? This is a comprehensive guide to development on Haiku right from their website. If you can't find the answers to your questions here, try the mailing list.

Q. What is a code bounty?

A. A code bounty is a payment that is made to a developer for the fulfillment of a coding duty. Bounties at Haikuware start at $100, and can increase through contributions by the public.

Q. Do you have an automated/subscription donation system?

A. Not for the bounties sorry, only for the 'Thank You' award.

Q. What currency should I use when contributing to a bounty?

A. The system should default to US dollars. Please don't submit in other currencies, as it makes a mess of the bookwork ;)

Q. I want to spread the word about Haiku Bounties, how can I help?

A. You could post this image on your website (or make me a better one, I know it sucks). You could also post links to the bounties in developer forums and steal developers away from other operating systems, haha.

Q. Do you accept any other forms of payment other than PayPal?

A. Sorry not at this time. You can send money via your bank as a registered PayPal member or you can make an instant payment through major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard, etc.) without registering at PayPal. Simply visit this: PayPaL URL

Enter this email: bounties(at)haikuware.com (replace (at) with @)

Select service/other, and continue. Fill in the required info, and indicate in the 'notes' section which bounty you'd like your contribution to be entered into.

Q. Who are you, and why should I trust you?

A. My name is Karl vom Dorff, and I'm the man behind Haikuware. I previously ran haikubounties.org and with the help of bounty contributors raised around $1500 for Haiku's cause. If you need any reference or doubt my sincerity, intentions or commitment to Haiku, please contact the president of Haiku, Michael Phipps.

Q. Where can I find an RSS feed with the latest balances?

A. We will try to frequently add the total balance, and balance of each bounty as a latest news item. Therefore, the syndicate is available at our domain name for subscription and addition to your website/newsreader/desktop.

Q. What happens to my money if a bounty fails?

A. As outlined in the rules, if after 6 months no developer signs up for the bounty the balance of the bounty is transferred into the general fund, unless we are contacted up to 2 weeks after the bounty's closure for a refund. We will try to make an effort to notify registered members of Haikuware of bounty closures, but can't guarantee this. It is the contributors responsibility to observe the deadlines.

Q. I made a payment but don't see any changes on your site, what's up?

A. Patience my son, we'll get around to it!

Q. Can you provide a receipt for tax purposes?

A. No. This may be an option for the future. As it stands now, Haikuware isn't a registered charitable organization. In Canada (probably the U.S as well), this entails a fair amount of paper work. If you're a corporation looking to write-off taxes by contributing to a non-profit, then I may be persuaded to register it as such for contributions in the thousands of dollars. Be aware however, even if this were a registered charitable organization, it would be Canadian, and there may be certain restrictions on international claims. So, I'm not too sure. I think for now, I'd like to keep it simple.

Q. I submitted $X, but the bounty system shows I submitted less:

A. Well convenience isn't free. Even PayPal likes to make money off of charities! There is an approximate fee of 2.5% plus 50 cents per transaction. Please keep this in mind when attempting to top up bounties to a target.

Q. When did this bounty system start?:

A. Haikuware began accepting contributions to the bounty system on July 18th, 2007.

Bounty

Status

Developer

Deadline

Expiry

Target (USD/€)

Amount Raised/Awarded: (USD$)

SATA Driver

Completed!

Marcus Overhagen

Dec. 1st 2007

May 1st, '08

$10,000 - €7000

$1093.76 awarded to developer.

Drive Setup

Expired

Feb 1st, '08

$240.94 moved to bluetooth bounty

Bootman

Expired

Feb 1st, '08

$227.33 moved to bluetooth bounty

CUPS Port

Failed

Ithamar Adema

Feb. 13th, 2008

$1065.60 split to Macbook & Bluetooth

Webkit Port

Partially Completed

Ryan Leavengood

Nov. 15th 2007

$500 - €350

$837.49 awarded to developer

NDIS Wrapper

Expired

Feb 1st, '08

$578.82 moved to bluetooth bounty

Macbook support

Failed

Christopher Plymire

Dec 31st, 2008

$750

$759.31 transferred to Bluetooth bounty.

Bluetooth Stack - Phase I

Completed

Oliver Dorantes

$1950

$1820.47 awarded to developer

Flash port (Gnash or swfdec)

Completed

Adrian Panasiuk

Mar. 01 2009

N/A

$495.27: Donated by Adrian to Wireless Bounty. Received Haiku golf shirt. 15% to the Thank You Award.

Alpha Bug Squashing

Failed

deepix

Apr. 11th, 2009

$250

Failed Transferred to Wireless bounty and 15% to Thank You Award.

Documentation

Expired

Mar. 01 2009

$50-100 each

Failed$0.00

Xbox Bounty

Expired

Mar. 01 2009

$40 Refunded, balance donated to the TYA.

Wifi Bounty

Completed

Colin Günther

Dec. 15th, 2009

$2000-3000

Total Raised: $2184.13
P1 Awarded 1/3: $709.46
P2 Awarded 2/3: $709.46
P3 Awarded
3/3: $765.21

Gutenprint Port

Completed

Michael Pfeiffer (laplace)

Mar. 15th, 2011

$2000

Completed Dec. 5th, 2010.
$2015. 37 awarded.

Wifi Encryption Bounty

Partially Completed

Axel Doerfler

Mar 15th, 2011

$2759.34

$1408.04 distributed to Axel for 2/3 completion. Balance to the General Fund.

TV Bounty

Expired

Mar 15th, 2011

$1004.54

Balance to General Fund

PDF/Document

Viewer

Completed

Ciprian Nesidan

Mar. 09,2012

$1000

$205.89 Raised and transferred to Ciprian on Mar. 09. 2012

In addition, around $1500 was contributed to Haiku inc. in 2005 through contributions raised by our prior project haikubounties.org.

How it works:

Bounties are valid for 6 months. If a developer has not applied for the bounty after 6 months, the bounty is closed and the money in the bounty is transferred into the 'general bounty' account. Those who contributed to the closed/failed bounty may ask for a refund up to a week after it closes by writing to us via email. Refunds will be made only by PayPal, from the original email address, and may be subject to additional fees.
A poll will be held to decide the fate of the holdings in the general account. 15% of the general accounts contents will be automatically forwarded to the 'Thank You' account. The remaining difference could be distributed by donating the money to Haiku, forwarding the money to a different bounty, or giving it to the bounty of the year, hiring a software engineer, or a combination of these ideas. All decisions will be voted upon via a poll.
If a developer is interested in a bounty, they contact Haikuware and apply to the bounty with an application (see developer tab). The developer must complete the bounty within the time frame and to the specifications put forth in the self-stated outline or be subject to rule #4 in the developer section.
Commercial bounty hunters are welcome at Haikuware, however, in the spirit of open source software (and Haiku), we ask that the propietary software/drivers/projects completed by a coder through our bounty system have their project's source code released and contributed back to the community one year after its completion. The general public may still contribute to the commerical bounty, but in order for a commercial entity to have propietary rights over completed bounties, the commercial contributor must have contributed a minimum 75% of the total cash at the time the bounty is taken up by a developer.
Transactions, statements, and website updates reflecting donations are handled manually, please take this into account. We'll make every attempt to be as quick as possible.

Legal:

By contributing money to a bounty or applying to a bounty as a developer you:

Agree that you have carefully read, understand and agree with the rules and terms of the bounty system as set forth on the respective pages.
Agree to abstain from any litigation against Haikuware or the website's owner.

Submitting a bounty:

Any code bounty can be put forth by individuals in the general public as long as it pertains to the Haiku opeating system (and #3 is fulfilled). Do your research, and choose carefully. Before starting a Java bounty for example, contact developers who had previous interest in such a project. Also consider the enormity of such a project and how unrealistic it may be.
Skilled developers, especially for a niche operating system like Haiku, are hard to come by and demand respect. Therefore when starting a bounty, and for the bounty to be taken seriously, we ask that the person that starts the bounty make an inital contribution of $100 USD. If $100 is too much for you, try posting in the comments section or forum to see if someone else will join your effort. Subsequent contributions of >$5 USD can be made by anyone.
Please send us any bounty you'd like to see here (after you've read the rules) with some basic research and what your expectations are. Please DO NOT just send, I want to start an 'x' bounty. The $100 initial contribution can be sent via PayPal to: bounties at haikuware.com. We reserve the right to reject any proposals.
If you submit or contribute to a bounty, you're encouraged to register to Haikuware. Event notifications pertaining to the bounties such as bounty expirations will be sent out exclusively via email to members only.
Does Haikuware have a list of suggested bounties?? No.

Why Bounties?

Haikuware has been collecting funds and distributing bounty money to Haiku developers since July 2007. The project began in 2005 as haikubounties.org. In combination, and as of Jan. 2012, we've awarded ~$24,000 to developers and Haiku Inc. bringing us to probably the second highest financial contributing organiztion to Haiku (after Google Inc).

Successful programs included:

First version of Haiku's SATA driver - Marcus Overhagen
Partial completion of the WebKit port - Ryan Leavengood
Bluetooth Stack - Oliver Ruiz Dorantes
Gnash (Flash support) - Adrian Panasiuk
Wifi Bounty Stack (FreeBSD port & compatibility layer) - Colin Gunther
Gutenprint Port (printer support) Michael Pfeiffer
Partial completion of a bounty to support Wifi Encryption
The donation of $2002.09 & $10,000 to Haiku Inc.
25 Thank You Awards

Here are some reasons I continue to manage these bounties after all these years:

Developers can be motivated to complete tasks the community wants to see in Haiku by money.
Bounties support the development of Haiku
Bounties bring urgency, responsibility and commitment to a developer that takes on a bounty. Where a project may sit on a developer's desk for years, having a structure, proposal and deadline as parts of a bounty kind of force the developer to be accountable to bounty donors. For many developers this is a good thing, as it's motivating!
Developers and the community win in the end.
To me personally, it's rewarding seeing a project completed.

Comments

+3 # lurker — jeanmarc 2009-05-19 20:16

Hello,
I'am just an old BeOS user awaiting for Haiku ;-)

I think it would be nice to make a bounty to purchase the Haiku.org domain.
I've send an email to the owner domains

robustdesign.net, i'am not sure they will reply.
Perhaps you could try to contact them by phone to know their price :
Robust Design
PMB 5540 10002 Aurora Ave. N. #36
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone +1.8772775545
I hope they don't expect too much to be able to make a bounty :cry:

Thanks
Btw, I ok for 50$ and if their price is decent (less than $2000)

+1 # karl 2009-05-19 21:57

It's a good idea.

Please initiate the contact with them per mail or phone, and let us know how much they want.

+1 # jeanmarc 2009-05-21 03:07

hi,
I've contacted them trough Sedo (that's the Brokerage service their url point to)
I hope they will reply and i wil keep you inform :-)

+1 # 500€ — jeanmarc 2009-05-25 02:41

Sedo has declined the first offer of 500€.
I've told them than we might be able to raise up to 2000$ for it.
I will give up for an amount beyond :cry:

+1 # karl 2009-05-28 03:20

Any update from Sedo??

+1 # Sedo — jeanmarc 2009-05-28 14:22

Hi,

Well i've been in touch with Sedo but they don't want to start the negotiations until they have a firm budget.

I propose 500€ (by myself) but they want all least 4 digits. I explain it was a group initiative and that i can't assure the amount.
Sedo wanted me to make an offer on my behalf. Sadely, i can't secure 1000$ or more in it.. So, i have give up in that way. :cry:

I've contacted the domain owner through another email robustdesign

yahoooo.com (spell yahoo correctly ;-), but they didn't reply either. I've said that we might be able to collect up to 2000$. I also asked how much they expect, but still no response from them... :sad:

Well, i think i can't do more. Perhaps someone who live in US can try to contact Robust Design by phone ? (Seattle, Phone +1.8772775545)
If we have a price and if the price isn't ridiculously expensive, we can start a bounty.

+2 # Developers first — BrunoBratwurst 2009-05-29 14:49

Sorry but I cannot understand why to put some effort and money in this domain name at this point.

Sure people will decide on their own if they like to donate/spent money for this domain.

I ask myself why I should spent some money for people who register domain names only to earn some money, without spending much effort in it only to sell them for profit later.

On the other hand there are many developers here working hard and doesn't even ask for money. Haiku developers should be honoured first...

+1 # Re: developers first — Meanwhile 2009-05-29 20:58

I agree with you.

Some more thoughts:
Although haiku.org is easier to type and remember than haiku-os.org and although it's more likely that people who are new to the project will search for haiku.org, if you consider the relative obscurity of .org versus .com to the general public, I think most will search for haiku.com, or just type in haiku in the URL bar, to have it automatically directed to haiku.com.
[sorry, I just didn't manage to chop the sentence above into smaller pieces ;-)

]

Linux.com leads to a Linux related site, that's good.
Haiku's problem is that Haiku already stands for something (the form of poetry) and therefore it makes sense to have a Haiku poetry related site use haiku.com, as is the case right now.

+1 # why — jeanmarc 2009-05-30 17:27

I think this domain would increase our visibility, it is especially important for newcomers. Haiku.org is way more easy to remember, it give a more professional look and it's way much cooler than the official adress

I agree than it's somehow a waste of money to pay the "domain registrer" but if (i said if) the price is decent (less than 2000$), i believe it worth a bounty..
Anyway, I don't think Robust Design will ever reply to me. I can't speak proper english and i'am from europe, so if no one is available to call them, i think we might give up this idea. :cry:

+1 # letter — jeanmarc 2009-06-02 21:28

I will send them a post letter. That's the last thing i can do.. :cry:

+1 # umccullough 2009-06-04 09:00

I did contact the owners of Haiku.org on behalf of Haiku, Inc. some time ago and got no response... sadly.

+3 # Meanwhile 2009-06-04 20:46

How about trying to get a link to haiku-os.org on the haiku.com main page link section?

+1 # jeanmarc 2009-06-15 21:15

Still no news from "Robust Design", i think i will drop this bounty idea by the end of the week :cry:

0 # RE: Bounties — michaelvoliveira 2010-04-16 21:30

How about create a new bounty for improve opengl and/or bring gallium3D up-to-date? huge games and apps could be ported for Haiku like Celestia..

It's a shame but BeOS have better 3D support than Haiku.. (even Win95....)

+2 # RE: RE: Bounties — karl 2010-04-17 05:34

I'll start most any bounty, as long as someone shows the startup money.

That said, I'd wait until the end of April for the GSOC projects...

0 # RE: RE: RE: Bounties — michaelvoliveira 2010-04-17 10:12

I have 20 bucks! In a paypal account that I forget the pass.. heauehae

First.. I need a job... one year by now in home...

+2 # RE: RE: RE: RE: Bounties — karl 2010-04-17 10:54

hehe, I hope you understand why I start the bounties at $100; mostly so they're taken seriously and have a good start. Perhaps others can chip in?

+1 # RE: Bounties — karl 2010-06-07 09:36

In case anyone's wondering about the monetary regression of the wireless encryption bounty by about 4%, an e-check payment of $100 failed (they take 5-7 days to clear).

+2 # RE: Bounties — karl 2010-12-26 19:26

Michael Pfeiffer graciously donated the proceeds of the cash from his work on the Gutenprint Bounty towards filling up the Gallium & TV driver bounties and a year's worth of Thank You Award funds! The balance was then donated to the Wifi Encryption Bounty. Thanks Michael.

0 # ppp bounty — Alan3 2010-12-28 07:20

Now that funds for the current boundies have been achieved, you could not open a bounty to support 3g modem? (ppp support + gui conf ...) I write here because I can not find the topic in the forum...
Happy holidays to all!

0 # RE: ppp bounty — karl 2010-12-28 07:24

I'll open it if someone sends funds! If I recall, Alexander von Gluck is working on 3G modem support. Perhaps you can contact him.

dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/common/usb_modeswitch.cpp?rev=39536

www.unixzen.com/

www..com/

PPP requires a serial port driver I think. Phoudoin was working on bringing dial-up support to Haiku, but this seems to have stalled. Read here for more info:

http://haikuware.com/bounty-discussion/1684-campaign-for-pppoe-support21

+1 # RE: RE: ppp bounty — Alan3 2010-12-28 07:45

Thanks for the info!

+1 # hello — ppp 2011-05-23 10:35

Anyone ever considered alertpay as another way for donation? ;-)

0 # RE: hello — karl 2011-05-23 11:12

I use PayPal because they have over 150 million accounts, so someone is more likely to have a PayPal account than an AlertPay account; I've never heard of the company before.

That said, are there any advantages over PayPal?

thx