Speaker - Ryan Leavengood

Speaker - Ryan Leavengood

Speaker Bio:

Ryan has been a professional developer for 10 years after graduating from the University of Florida in 1999. He has programmed in Java, Delphi, C, C++, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, with a little HTML and CSS thrown in too. He is currently working as an independent Ruby on Rails consultant for his own company. Ryan's primary passion at the moment is Haiku, the open source reinvention of the BeOS. He has been a volunteer developer with Haiku since 2003, and is currently engaged in writing a new web browser using the WebKit rendering engine, which he and a Google Summer of Code student ported to Haiku.

Presentation Title:

Haiku: What Is It, Where Did It Come From, and Where Is It Now?

Abstract:

Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful. In this talk Ryan will give a brief history of BeOS, its rise and demise, and the reasons why the Haiku project was started and where it stands today. Haiku recently made its first release, R1/Alpha1, which Ryan will use to demo Haiku and some included applications.