Over the past while, I (as well as many Haiku followers) have probably noticed that Michael Lotz (mmlr), has been furiously at work programming for Haiku! Michael has helped fix a lot of issues to bring Haiku closer to R1. In particular, I can think of the following things he's accomplished over the last while:

• Ported the TTY module so Haiku now has a working USB serial device
• Added support for tablet devices to Haiku
• Added support for joysticks to Haiku
• Fixed an obscure bug that prevented a lot of AMD motherboards from working
• Enabled IO-APIC which led to proper PCI routing and fixed a huge amount of hardware problems and open tickets.

Anything else? Since about the middle of March he's made around 150 commits to Haiku in several areas!

These were high quality commits that brought Haiku on the fast track. For this reason, I think it's a good idea to reward Michael for his hard work. He has won our TYA before, but I think the cirumstances are extraordinary. I know a lot of people are very greatful their hardware now works or they can now boot Haiku thanks to Michael. 

The TYA fund has a surplus. A while ago, someone personally donated $120 to me for maintaining the website; I put this directly in the TYA. So, I think it would be suitable to take $350 from the TYA, and award it to Michael. That would still leave us with a year's worth of regular TYA funds. With the $350, Michael should be able to reward himself with a decent netbook, or anything else to his liking!