Hi,It was brought to my attention that there is a request for deletion for the German entry of Haiku in Wikipedia titled "Haiku (Betriebssystem)" located at the following URL:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28Betriebssystem%29The person who made the request (username Weissbier) apparently claims, among other things, that Haiku is vaporware.
I am not sure what the motivations for this deletion request are, but it does look to me that this move is unwarranted, and that we should try to make our case to avoid deletion of this page.
There is currently a discussion with regards to this deletion request here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/25._April_2007#Haiku_.28Betriebssystem.29I would like to make a call to the German-speaking community to help make our case in this discussion, so that the Haiku entry is not deleted from Wikipedia. Here are a few links that should help counter the vaporware arguments constructively:
* Learn about it http://haiku-os.org/about/faq http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=236331448076587879 * See it running http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8886611439599748838&q=haiku+os&hl=en http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-2008513940874112547 * Download it and try it yourself http://haiku-os.org/downloads You can also note that:* Haiku was presented at a Google Tech Talk at the headquarters of Google in Mountain View, CA
Photos: http://haiku-os.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1288 Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=236331448076587879 Slides: http://haiku-os.org/files/downloads/2007-02-13_haiku-tech-talk.pdf* Haiku was selected as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007 and assigned 8 students to work on Haiku related projects.
* Haiku exhibited at the latest SCaLE 5x open source conference, where it had a booth and gave two technical talks
Photos: http://haiku-os.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1249Podcast: http://www.clickcaster.com/resource/audio/scale-5-linux-expo-haiku-os-interview.mp3
Above all, keep it civil. :) Cheers, Koki