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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

I'm very proud to announce that now we haveOpenAL native sound support for Haikuports.haiku-files.org/ticket/366Thanks to GCI student yeputons and Dav

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!

Haiku isn't really very well supported on Macs. There was one bug in particular that prevented some Haiku users from using Haiku on their Macs (at least to some degree). Ticket #2654 described how the keyboard would be unavailable for Intel Mac users, so that they couldn't even select safe mode options to try to boot Haiku. As of r41117, this has been fixed so that Haiku's advanced boot menu options can be accessed (it took two years to commit this working patch...)!

I'm pleased to announced a developer applied for our Gallium Bounty. Adrian Marius Popa (mariuz) is a Linux programmer/system admin/open source advocate & developer who was inspired by Krzysztof Smiechowicz's recent completion of the Gallium Bounty on AROS - thereby believing the same can be done for Haiku (incidentaly, double as much money is available for this bounty, but we encourage additional contributions). Adrian develops for Ubuntu, and is on his way to becoming a full MOTU. You can read more about him here.

Around $4500 in bounty money is set to expire next week. I've done my best to try to find developers to take these bounties on, but have been unsuccessful :( OSnews and Phoronix even tried to help find developers to take on the Gallium bounty (thanks!). Just goes to show how hard it is to find good knowledgable developers who will work for next to nothing!

One of my favourite emulators, Basilisk, has been ported to Haiku. Basilisk is able to emulate classic Macintosh hardware (more info).

Here are the nominees for the 21th TYA. Voting will take place from today until Feb 3rd!:

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On behalf of Haikuware and community members, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, wherever you may be visiting Haikuware from! That said:

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Regular game contributor/porter Michael Oliviera reports that Urias McCullough has fixed a bug in SDL/OpenGL for Haiku that prevented 3D games from rendering properly. Michael plans to integrate these fixes into Senryu (a Haiku distro which frees the user of any unnecessary complexities, by including the most commonly used default libraries, a GUI package manager, and a good set of default applications and tweaked settings). Michael shows a couple games now running under Senryu (i.e Dream Chess & BallSmacker):

Axel updates his progress on the Wifi Encryption Bounty.

Summarizing his blog, two out of three milestones have been completed, but the rather important part, the wpa_supplicant port, isn't yet working.

As you might have noticed, the WiFi encryption bounty ends tomorrow. Obviously, this is a good time to give an overview over what I did in the past we

With the Wifi Encryption bounty coming due soon (the required funds have been raised), it's interesting to see the following after the results of the 'Future Haiku Features' survey.

The top two requested features for Haiku R1 are:

#1 - Wifi + WPA, WPA2 Encryption
#2 - Wifi userland tools - ifconfig integration