San Antonio ? September 22, 2008 ? power2PEOPLE is pleased to announce its latest bounty initiative. Chris Hodges, the original author of the Poseidon USB system, has proposed to undertake the task of porting Poseidon USB to AROS and release his work under the APL (AROS Public License) transforming Poseidon USB into an open source project. For this to become a reality, it will require a total amount of donations of at least $4000.

Pavel Fedin has been assigned to port AROS to Windows/Cygwin. Basic emulation functionality shall consist of WinAPI graphics HIDD, native Windows keyboard and mouse HIDDs. These basic functionalities should be included by the tentative deadline of March 31, 2009. Further goals consisting of networking, sound support, and other functionality will not be required for the completion of this bounty.

If you would like to donate money to encourage Pavel's efforts, please visit the power2PEOPLE website.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

I would like to thank Dr. Schulz for his long and very hard work for AROS development over the years and completing the SAM440 port nearly ontime.

Chicago, Illinois ? July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster.

Doc Schulz has been cooking up a new ISO for SAM440.

Major changes are going to be happening with TeamAROS. After long consideration on the path for TeamAROS, I've decided major changes are needed after losing technical support that has driven TeamAROS forward over the past couple of years.

The requirements I set forth was that current bounties, either open or unassigned, will remain as is with their current funding. I owe that to the donors and developers. So when developer finish their assigned bounties, they will be rewarded with their bounty. Bounties will still be OPEN for donations during this time period. Finished bounties may not be shown as closed, I simply do not have the technical capabilities to manipulate the mysql db to show it.

What will change is the benefactors monthly donation will be disabled starting May 1st. I'll deal with the benefactors vote for April as soon as I have the mailing list repaired which I hope will be this week.

Target date for the new home for TeamAROS will be mid June under the umbrella of Power2People.org. By going with Power2people.org, I give TeamAROS something I've always wanted for it, tax exemption status (501(c)3). Funds will change hands at that point in time. I will continue to be with TeamAROS after this hand off.

Thanks for so many years of support!

Randy aka Dammy

Paolo B has created a bounty for ES137x driver for AHI.

This is a big perk for those using VMware, qemu, and real hardware.

Nikolaos T has dropped his USB sound bounty and has created a replacement of AROSamp with a MP3 player bounty.

Alain G has completed DHCP Client bounty!