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Haiku: Contest for System Sounds

34 points by bitigchi 6y ago

whywhywhywhy 6y ago
I love the idea of Haiku but don’t do a contest. Just find a sound designer you believe in and raise the money to hire them. No spec work!!! As a developer would you ever enter a contest to do unpaid work to pitch your code? No of course not so why ask people from other careers to do so?
- agildehaus 6y ago
  Haiku's logo was a contest or a vote at one point, as was the name Haiku. Sort of a tradition :)
  - whywhywhywhy 6y ago
    Was Haiku's file system decided by a contest? Was Haiku's terminal client decided by a contest? Was Haiku's window manager decided by a contest? of course not, why is it ok for UX, audio and design elements to be?
    - agildehaus 6y ago
      It's not like the maintainers won't have the final say. It's a way to get a bunch of people interested in contributing, which is the primary hurdle.
    - cnasc 6y ago
      Is the problem “unpaid” or is the problem “contest?” Because the goalposts seem to have moved a bit from your first post.
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    - takeda 6y ago
      Eh, what a let down, was expecting you to write this in a form of haiku.
- thesuitonym 6y ago
  Haiku is made by people who love Haiku, for people who love Haiku. Those who aren't interested in the project need not apply.
  - whywhywhywhy 6y ago
    don't do a contest at all then if the methodology is "If you build it, they will come" just wait for them to come.
    - dylan604 6y ago
      why not let them have their fun? if you don't want to enter the contest then don't. it's not your concern if other people are happy to participate.
  - Gualdrapo 6y ago
    It's funny that while you're saying this, one of the comments says they should tell Linux & BSD people.
    - nix23 6y ago
      Why do you think BSD's or Linux need System-sounds?
- cxr 6y ago
  > As a developer would you ever enter a contest to do unpaid work to pitch your code? No of course not Huh? This happens thousands of times a day, and that's been the trajectory of the last 30+ years of software development. Every patch submitter is "pitching" their work as the solution to a given bug. They're just generally not highly publicized, precisely because of how common it is.
- mmastrac 6y ago
  This is an open-source project. Everything that goes into it is free work. Why should sounds be any different?
guerrilla 6y ago
For reference, some of the old BeOS sounds [1]. 1. https://youtu.be/f-uCC_bM8zs https://youtu.be/f-uCC_bM8zs
rcarmo 6y ago
Hadn’t checked Haiku for a few months. Just noticed that one of the last blog entries says “kallisti5 continued working on making Haiku working under arm architecture. Currently Haiku is crashing early in the boot process, and it is being investigated.” I’ve been banging the drum for Raspberry Pi support for a good while, hope this is a step forward.

34 points by bitigchi 6y ago

I love the idea of Haiku but don’t do a contest. Just find a sound designer you believe in and raise the money to hire them. No spec work!!! As a developer would you ever enter a contest to do unpaid work to pitch your code? No of course not so why ask people from other careers to do so?

agildehaus 6y ago
Haiku's logo was a contest or a vote at one point, as was the name Haiku. Sort of a tradition :)
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  Was Haiku's file system decided by a contest? Was Haiku's terminal client decided by a contest? Was Haiku's window manager decided by a contest? of course not, why is it ok for UX, audio and design elements to be?
  - agildehaus 6y ago
    It's not like the maintainers won't have the final say. It's a way to get a bunch of people interested in contributing, which is the primary hurdle.
  - cnasc 6y ago
    Is the problem “unpaid” or is the problem “contest?” Because the goalposts seem to have moved a bit from your first post.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
  - takeda 6y ago
    Eh, what a let down, was expecting you to write this in a form of haiku.
thesuitonym 6y ago
Haiku is made by people who love Haiku, for people who love Haiku. Those who aren't interested in the project need not apply.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  don't do a contest at all then if the methodology is "If you build it, they will come" just wait for them to come.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    why not let them have their fun? if you don't want to enter the contest then don't. it's not your concern if other people are happy to participate.
- Gualdrapo 6y ago
  It's funny that while you're saying this, one of the comments says they should tell Linux & BSD people.
  - nix23 6y ago
    Why do you think BSD's or Linux need System-sounds?
cxr 6y ago
> As a developer would you ever enter a contest to do unpaid work to pitch your code? No of course not Huh? This happens thousands of times a day, and that's been the trajectory of the last 30+ years of software development. Every patch submitter is "pitching" their work as the solution to a given bug. They're just generally not highly publicized, precisely because of how common it is.
mmastrac 6y ago
This is an open-source project. Everything that goes into it is free work. Why should sounds be any different?

guerrilla 6y ago

For reference, some of the old BeOS sounds [1]. 1. https://youtu.be/f-uCC_bM8zs https://youtu.be/f-uCC_bM8zs

rcarmo 6y ago

Hadn’t checked Haiku for a few months. Just noticed that one of the last blog entries says “kallisti5 continued working on making Haiku working under arm architecture. Currently Haiku is crashing early in the boot process, and it is being investigated.” I’ve been banging the drum for Raspberry Pi support for a good while, hope this is a step forward.