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After close to seven years since the Haiku name and logo were made public during the WalterCon 2004 conference, the Haiku Project has finally realized their goal of securing the Haiku logo as a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). According to sources close to the project, this has been driven by and brought to a successful conclusion mainly by the initiative of Haiku Inc. board of director member Matthew Madia. The registration was filed in July of 2010 and the registration certificate was issued today, March 29, 2011. For those curious, here is the Registration Certificate available for download.

Following the successful Wifi Stack and Wifi Encryption bounties, Haikuware has announced three new bounties and its commitment to make a total of US$2500 available to cover 50% of their target goals. These are the new bounties being started:

• Gallium Port/Some Other 3D Solution
• CUPS Port
• TV Card Drivers

While giving recognition to Haiku supporters, developers and administrators, Haikuware seems to be puzzled (and so are we) by some of the funding choices made by the project, such as pursuing two initiatives to develop Ext3 drivers. Haikuware has chosen, instead, bounties that are meant to fill in the blanks of what they consider to still be sore spots in Haiku from an end user point of view. Perhaps not so much for the Gallium port, but better printer support though a well integrated CUPS port and drivers enabling the use video capture/TV cards would certainly expand Haiku's areas of usefulness for both existing as well potential users.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Linux is at the center of the open source movement. So it is not unusual (in fact, quite common) for many open source events to bear the Linux name, when in the majority of the cases they embrace the wider ecosystem that encompasses an ample variety of open source software projects.

One such event is the Linux Picnic, also known as Picn*x, an outdoors community gathering held every year to celebrate all the accomplishments of Open Source Software since the release of the first Linux kernel in August 1991. Picn*x 19 is scheduled to be held in the San Francisco South Bay Area on Saturday August 21st, at the Sunnyvale Baylands Park, and you can expect Haiku to be there.

The Australian Haiku Users and Developers Conference, Haiku Down Under, is scheduled to be held this coming Sunday August 22nd, from 9:00 in the morning (GMT +10; find your time zone here). This event, also known as HDU, was started in 2008 as a virtual conference by long time community member contributor and Phil "Sikosis" Greenway (see brief history), and is usually held on the same week that Haiku celebrates its birthday. The focus of the event is to raise awareness about Haiku, and generate interest and discussions around the project and the OS, in an attempt to build a community in that part of the world.

The HDU program includes sessions covering topics such as the state of Haiku, an introduction to Project Rhino (http://rhino.haikupc.com) (a native backup application), and a hands on demo of Haiku. Registration and chat will take place online via the Haiku Australia IRC channel (#haiku-au) on Freenode. Edit 8/19: You will also be able follow the life video feed of the event on USTREAM.