As you may be aware, every two months we try to pick out some candidates for our Thank You Award (read more about it in the bounties section). The following people were recently recognized to contribute to Haiku in one way or another. As such, we ask the public to vote who they feel should receive the award; the winner receives a $50 USD prize. Here are the nominees:


1. Begeistert Organizers:

The organizers of the BeGeistert meetings, Charlie Clark, Eric Tiggemann, André
Meissner, Ralf Schülke (I'm not sure these are all the people involved...)

For roughly 10 years they work hard to arrange successful events where developers and
users exchange knowledge and opinions. Even in the hard times, when Be Inc. was gone,
YellowTab were critically watched and Haiku wasn't quite on the map yet, the BeGeistert
Orga-Team persevered and continued their work.

2. Nils Reedijk:

As Team Leader of the documentation team, he devised a procedure to enable any number of
volunteers to contribute to documenting the Haiku API whilst assuring a level of quality.
Besides, he's still the most active writer, recently focussing on BMessage and
BLooper/BHandler. Documentation becomes increasingly important as new developers join the
project (or start creating new applications) and have to rely on correct descriptions of
the system.
Furthermore, he's on the team that's restructuring Haiku Inc. after Michael Phipps left
and gives excellent demonstrations at tech fairs like T-Dose. Right now he's in the
process of updating and better integrating the bug-database Trac into the website.

3. Steffen Friedle

He's cross-financing Haiku work by having Stephan, Axel and Ingo employed in his company
Mindwork, where they work on a Java/BeOS/Haiku based media content system. The Haiku
project probably wouldn't be where it is today, if these three core developers had to earn
their money with non-Haiku work and only had a few hours in the evening to code for Haiku.
Several drivers, thousands of lines of code and fewer bugs are a direct result of this
arrangement.


Please go on ahead now and,

VOTE!


Special thanks to those who donated to make the awards possible, as well as to Humdinger for compiling this award's nominees. Our fund for this award is running low, if you can spare some cash to this worthy cause, please donate on our bounty page.