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I'm going to have to cancel the Gallium Bounty between Adrian Marius Popa and Haikuware for failure to comply to our rules. The rules are very simple - among them, quarterly progress reports are mandatory. They help let us know what has (or has not been) achieved, and places a certain order of responsibility on the developer to stick to their timeline. I did email Adrian to ask about the progress, and he promised an update by May 29th - this didn't happen. The formal deadline for a progress update was June 26th - this didn't happen either.

The third alpha release of Haiku is available immediately! For more info, see Haiku's website. Congrats!

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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:

The Russian Haiku community asked I post the following polls here at Haikuware. After a week, we have some results. So, let's see in the comments what the Russian community (and anyone else for that matter) expected from these results, and how they interpret the results!

Q1: How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills?

This time/round I'm on top of things! Please send/comment any nomination (with reason), you have for our June Thank You Award. Have you seen recent

Well, my favourite way to check Haiku's latest commits is now down indefinitely. CIA.vc has been retired by the owner. It was a great service and prov

We recently noticed Michael Lotz (mmlr) has been quite busy committing to Haiku lately. We thought an interview would be timely, and thank Michael for helping explain what he's been up to in such great detail! The interview:

#1 - We've noticed a flurry of commits from you recently regarding ACPI and IRQ tables/routing. Could you please explain if this will help close ticket #5, and help Haiku realize proposition #4 from Haiku's 'must have R1 features' poll? Also, perhaps translate into plain English what it is you've done? :)

What I've done is finish implementing IO-APIC support that I started implementing back in 2008. Back then I only implemented programming of the actual IO-APIC controller, but not the required mapping between PCIinterrupt pins and the IO-APIC inputs. While the IO-APIC basically worked since then, it wasn't usable at all because the essential information, i.e. what pins are physically connected to what inputs was simply missing.

A two week poll has decided that the $2002.09 gathered from an incompletely finished bounty (Wifi Encryption), and an expired bounty (TV Card Support) should be forwarded to Haiku Inc. to be put towards a work contract that will further Haiku's development (it was also interesting to note there was strong support to see Gobe Productive v3.0 on Haiku).

Haiku Inc. have been awarded funding for eight students by Google's Summer of Code! Read more about it.

Scott McCreary (scottmc) will pick up this month's Thank You Award. Already previously included in past polls, he narrowly missed winning a couple of times and is well deserving of the prize! There wasn't enough nominee input  (except for unanimous support for Scott) to hold a poll, so Scott was selected. The list of contributors to Haiku is pretty small, and we've awarded a fair number of prizes already :)

Hello folks, please send/comment any nomination (with reason), you have for our April Thank You Award. Have you seen recent work done by a Haiku dev

Regular Haikuware readers will know that two of our bounties recently expired; the TV Bounty & partially completed Wifi Encryption Bounty. According to our rules, contributors had a week to claim a refund and 15% was subtracted and added to the Thank You Award. That time has passed, and the funds were collected and put into a 'General Fund'. The amount available: $2002.09!