Over these past few days (and today as well), different news on Haiku have appeared, we'll try to give you a brief summary, this Sunday evening.

The OpenJDK Porters Group voted to sponsor Haiku's Java port. The vote was unanimous and makes Haiku the first OS to be sponsored. SUN will now setup the necessary facilities for the port, such as mailing lists, site, etc. Read more over at Haiku-OS. Also, on the Java port, Bryan Varner recently sent the initial OpenJDK project page to Michael Reinhold for public posting, which you can find here. The current status is that the Java Port team is working with OpenJDK to setup the above mentioned infrastructures for the port effort.

Also, Haiku presented its first Haiku Recognition Award to ex-leader and founder Michael Phipps. The award was signed by community members who were attending the recent BeGeistert at Dusseldorf and a video was also made. Read the post, watch the video and if you want, leave a comment for Michael.

Yesterday, Franços Revol posted a long one (a technical post) about his work on Haiku's Theme Manager, which, if you follow Haiku's CIA, you've noticed him working on it since, at least, BeGeistert. He goes over the Manager's code and includes two screenshots (hint: François, SGA's shot needs updating).

Finally, last but not least, Luc, aka Begasus, has been working on the port for the latest version of the excellent ScummVM, which we all know. He was asking some to test it and here's the result: ScummVM running on Haiku, running an old 90's game called (as you can see from the image) "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". Nice.

Phew... ok, now you're a bit more up-to-date on Haiku's "going ons". Hope you enjoyed and great work everyone. Also, don't forget to vote on the new poll.