Thank You Award | Bounties

Thank You Award Winner's Circle:

The Thank You Award has been retired/closed for now

October 2011 - Cipri Nedisan (cipri)

Cipri developed a native Haiku PDF viewer based on mupdf. It's still in the works, and is also a bounty here at Haikuware.

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August 2011 - Brecht Machiels (brecht)

Brecht developed HaikuPorter. HaikuPorter is a command line Python application that, using the information contained in a HaikuPort's BepFile:

fetches the original source code archive
extracts this archive
patches the sources for compilation on Haiku
builds the software
installs the software
zips up the resulting binary for distribution

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June 2011 - Alexander Von Gluck (kallisti5)

Alexander von Gluck won our 23rd Thank You Award for his work on Haiku's Radeon HD driver. This will pave the way to eventually bring native support for the chipsets to Haiku.

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April 2011 - Scott McCreary (scottmc)

Scott is an active maintainer of various software at HaikuPorts, and frequently keeps Haiku up to date with respect to many of Haiku's optional packages. In addition, he's also a Haiku advocate, and has represented Haiku at LUG meetings, LinuxWorld (twice), SCaLE conference, OSCON conference & the LUGRadio Conference. Scott also took part in the GSOC 2010 Mentor Summit and was the Haiku admin for the GCI 2010 program!

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February 2011 - Michael Pfeiffer (laplace)

Michael completed the Gutenprint Bounty at Haikuware which brought the support and integration of 1500 printers to Haiku. Afterwards, he donated his proceeds back to the Bounty and Thank You Award programs!

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	Michael explains the Gutenprint Port

December 2010 - Jérôme Duval (korli)

Jérôme is a regular contributor to Haiku. More recently, he worked on the ext3 filesystem, the bus manager, ffmpeg & freetype and keeps various components up to date (amongst other things). .

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October 2010 - Clemens Zeidler (czeidler)

Clemens improved and integrated Stack & Tile as a regular Decorator within Haiku.

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	Clemens' Interview

August 2010 - Oliver Tappe (zooey)

Oliver Tappe contributed greatly towards the localization of Haiku.

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	Oliver Tappe's Interview

June 2010 - DarkWyrm & Pier Luigi Fiorini

DarkWyrm - For Paladin and his fantastic introduction to C++ programming and the Haiku API.

Pier Luigi Fiorini - for the Caya project - Native Multiprotocol Instant Messaging Software

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	DarkWyrm Interview Pier Luigi Fiorini Interview
	DarkWyrm's Website Pier Luigi Fiorini's Website

April 2010 - Sergei Reznikov (diver)

For his four long years of work looking for bugs. More than 800 bug reports, it is the absolute record in Haiku bug hunting and as of yet, accounts for ~15% of all Haiku's filed bug reports!

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Feb 2010 - Colin Günther (coling)

Colin Günther ported FreeBSD's wireless networking stack to Haiku bringing cord free joy to Haiku users around the world.

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December 2009 - QT4 Libraries & Demo Pack

Evgeny Abdraimov, Anton Sokolov, Gerasim Troeglazov brought

Gerasim Troeglazov

the multi-platform framework Qt4 to Haiku.

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Oct 2009 - Rudolf Cornelissen (rudolfc)

For his work in maintaining and bringing more support to Haiku's unified Nvidia graphics driver.

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Aug 2009 - François Revol (mmu_man)

Organized Haiku's presence once more at the RMLL conference and there educated other free software enthusiasts about Haiku in general and for his work on the port to the ARM platform especially.

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June 2009 - Joachim Seemer (humdinger)

For his hard work making sure Haiku has some good documentation when released.

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April 2009 - Matt Madia (mmadia) & Rene Gollent (anevilyak)

Matt Madia rose to the occasion to become Haiku's "Google Summer of Code" administrator for 2009.

Rene Gollent for his work on Tracker and fixes of messaging in the kernel and much more.

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	anevilyak mmadia
	anevilyak mmadia

February 2009 - Stack & Tile Team

Christof Lutteroth, Gerald Webers, Ahmed Al Hassani, Mohannad Hammadeh, James and John Kim - Professors and students of the University of Auckland, NZ, who developed and applied window stacking and customized widget placing on Haiku. If only they were 7 guys: one t-shirt shared every day of the week... :)

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	Website Demo Video

December 2008 - Artur Wyszynski (aljen)

For implementing gradients in the interface kit, easing the way to a modernized GUI.

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October 2008 - Urias Mccullough (umccullough)

For his continued commitment to get Haiku Inc. to a viable state. Haiku Inc. is an important part of the Haiku project, being the official contact for businesses and other organisations and for collecting donations for PR and development purposes.

Also, he worked with Coverity to get their code analysis tool to work on the Haiku source. Many bugs are fixed already and Haiku is more stable for it, esp. when stressing the system in low resource situations.

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August 2008 - Stephan Aßmuss (stippi)

Stephan Aßmus, for his contributions to MediaPlayer and solving InterfaceKit issues ("mouse message pile-up") in the last two months and his exemplary mentorship for GSoC, helping and inspiring his student while providing status reports to the rest of us. Also, the hard work on the disk management API, and drive setup.

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June 2008 - Michael Lotz (mlotz)

He's working on many, mostly low-level, parts for Haiku. As Haiku's compiler guru he kept gcc2 usable for so long and was paving the way to the recent gcc2/4 mixture. Recently he enabled OHCI and is now working on the last missing features to complete Haiku's USB support.

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April 2008 - Bezilla Team

For their stunning perseverance - hanging on to give us a very solid browser that's become
more polished and smooth than we could ever have imagined.

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February 2008 - Begeistert Team

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.

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December 2007 - Ingo Weinhold (bonefish)

Where would Haiku be with Ingo?? Ingo often commits important and complex code to Haiku that nobody really undertands. He's consistent in daily commits to all elements of Haiku, including Haiku's kernel, servers, and bug fixes.

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October 2007 - Axel Dörfler (axeld)

Axel contributes daily to Haiku and in big ways. Not to mention, always answering emails and questions in a friendly and positive manner. We'd like to thank the other nominees for candidates of this award, as they also deserve the prize, unfortunately I can only give one out :(

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About

The purpose of Haikuware's 'Thank You Award' (TYA), is to show our appreciation towards Haiku developers, documentation writers, community members, or basically anyone that contributes to Haiku to further its cause. The goal of this project is one of recognition (bragging rights!?) and acknowledgement from the community for what most developers at Haiku do in their spare time - and for free!

How it Works

Administration, choosing candidates, comments and suggestions concerning this project are handled on Freelists. We also accept nominations for Thank You Award candidates in advance of each poll in the form of comments on our website. A public poll based on the selection of candidates will then be held, and the winner will be awarded the prize. When considering nominating someone for the Thank You Award, they must meet these conditions:

they must not have previously won an award
their contribution must be recent (

A Haiku Golf Shirt will be awarded every two months (pending funds), making six awards per year. Any money collected above $40 every two months will be saved in the account for subsequent awards. If the balance hasn't reached $40, the award will be skipped until the next round.

Fifteen percent of failed bounties will be moved to the Thank You Award. Recipients of the award will be excluded from future awards.

Balance

Contributors

$0.00

Anonymous: $50, Stella W: $25, Karl vD: $35, Jonas S: $50, Jonas S: $95, Feb 1st Failed Bounties (15%): $157.07, Hubert H: $15, Easy PC Solutions : $17, Urias M: $15, T. J. W: $60, 15% of failed Alpha Bug Squashing Bounty: $37.50, 15% of Completed Flash Bounty: $74.29, Hubert H: $15, Karl vD: $25, Siarhei Z: $85, Geoff T: $31.37 (Expired Xbox bounty), Otto S: $15, $25 Rene P, Stella W: $60, Anonymous: $50, Andrew H. $20, Michael P: $276.19, AGMS: $120, 15% of expired Wifi Encryption Bounty and TV Bounty: $353.31, Thank You Award retired - balance donated to the Gallium Bounty: $260.07

Comments

+1 # karl 2009-06-25 22:28

I've sent emails to all winners asking for their pictures because I wanted to make this section a little prettier. I only got three replies... Anyone want to help me track down available photos on the net for these guys?? (I have humdinger and umccullough's pics).

+1 # Fix speeling — Humdinger 2010-12-05 10:36

How embarrassing, you butchered Clemens' name. :)
It's "Zeidler".

Regards,
Humdinger

0 # RE: Fix speeling — karl 2010-12-05 11:01

oopsie, my bad! fixed

0 # RE: Thank You Award — karl 2010-12-05 11:11

Funds are low for the TYA, had to borrow a couple bucks ($2) from bounty money. I'll start trying to raise money for next year's awards ($40 * 6 = $240), in the new year. That said, anyone is welcome to contribute anytime!