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As you may know, the bounties listed on our website have a shelf life of six months. At the end of the six months, if no developers have applied, donors are given the option for a refund.

I have already emailed all the donors about this, and haven't gotten anything back yet. The email suggested that if no refunds are requested, we transfer the combined sum of the failed bounties into the bluetooth bounty (keep in mind, this is not a public decision, but those of bounty contributors). Donors could have made their own suggestions on what to do with the money, and I would add those into the question, and then we'd have a vote; or simply do nothing, and the bluetooth route would be followed. It also lists in the rules, that if no refunds are taken, 15% of the sum of the failed bounties will go towards the 'thank you award' fund.

As such, for the failed bounties: Drive Setup $240.94 + Bootman $227.33 + NDIS Wrapper $578.82 = $1047.09 - 15% = $890.03

A total of $890.03 would be forwarded to the bluetooth bounty, and $157.07 into the 'thank you award fund'.

We'll also move $33.08 from the general fund into the bluetooth bounty, which combined with the current bounty balance would make that bounty worth $1066.61. I've emailed Oliver and asked if he'd consider lowering the bounty, or accept the current balance. This will bring the bounty closer up to the top, and will help fund this developer's coding for important hardware support in Haiku.

I will give two more days to those who donated to the bounties to claim a refund, after which the above will be finalized.

I know I'm not the first to report this but there was an SVN commit made with the following comment.

"Well, that's all what I've come up with after a Haiku session with an uptime of more than 5 hours, compiling my first haiku-image under Haiku from a tree checked out under Haiku. I even tested that the image boots
and works using QEMU which I copied over from my BeOS partition (including using kqemu that was dropped in from there too and was simply picked up when starting QEMU)."

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From a listing in our 'hardware wanted' donation board , Haiku developer Oliver Dorantes, aka 'urnenfeld ' (who is working on the bluetooth stack) recently received 256mb SDRAM for one of his development machines.

Thanks to Dennis for picking up on the entry and sending out the hardware to Spain.

Hi folks,

I've moved the site over to a new location. The website is really broken right now (broken links), and most, probably all files won't be available for download for a while until I repair the database. One of the main reasons for moving was more processing power, the other is unmetered bandwidth ;)

Shouldn't take too long until I have things back to normal!

*Update - most things are fixed, just a couple minor things to repair.