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rangoon626
Someone please make these great people a great wallpaper!
rriepe
It's so hard to get attention in October 2020. Great promotional idea.
kkaranth
> Send your work to humdingerb (at) gmail and bitigchi (at) me.

What domain is the second email address talking about?

dpedu
I don't mean for this to be flippant - where is Haiku used today? Does anyone use it to get work done? Desktop or server?
lowtech
What a great OS, its low latency make the mouse motion almost instantaneous. I can only imagine what feels like to use it paired with a crt monitor.
codr7
I ran BeOS off and on for a couple of years right around the time when they dropped PowerPC for Intel.

It truly was awesome, nothing I've used since then made me as happy. Gobe Productive still has a place in my heart.

Programming it was madness though, since everything was MT all the time.

IshKebab
What OS doesn't make mouse motion almost instantaneous? Ok I know Linux sometimes has issues, but Windows and Mac handle this fine.
peatmoss
> If you want to go full 90’s, and submit a version suitable for tiled backgrounds, just let us know :).

I had entirely forgotten about tiled wallpapers. There used to be a website with tons of melty textured tile wallpapers. Does anyone remember what that was called and if it still exists?

Nzen
I don't know about melty, but I like www.subtlepatterns.com tiles
lbotos
I spent a few minutes searching: Where can someone download an SVG of the logo? A google search for Haiku logo doesn't appear to give me an official source for the logo: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Haiku%20logo

I also clicked around the pages, and I found the trademark guide, but no "press kit" or the like.

throwanem
If anyone involved with the project is reading here - as one of the calls is specifically for variations on the Haiku logo, it would probably be a good idea to provide links to SVG versions of the Haiku logo. That'll definitely lower the barrier to entry for folks looking to do you a free art!
cogburnd02
Why wouldn't they accept png format submissions? I create stuff (mostly super-simple tiled backgrounds) in Kolourpaint and I always save as png.