As I'm sure many of you know, WalterCon was held this past weekend, in Orlando, Florida, USA, the World. During the weekend, demos were held, lectures spoken and as is the norm in events like this, people mingled, talked and had a good time. One of the attendees was Jem Matzan from the Jem Report, and report he did. In it he writes a bit about Haiku's past, its future and of course, gives his thoughts on WalterCon. He has some pics for your voyeurism pleasure, but the mother lode comes from Haiku themselves, as you can see over at the WalterCon page (ok, who's with me here, doesn't my friend Rene look like he's sleeping in this pic? He's the one on the right).

The surprise you ask? Ah yes. One thing that was announced over the weekend, was the winner of the Haiku Icon Set contest. And we here at ICO happen to know which one it was... *opens envelope*... and the winner is... Stippi! As you can see from the shot, it's a very nice looking set, which manages to both stay faithfull to the original BeOS look but with slight changes that make it different enough to keep you looking for what's new. Congratulations to Stippi and to all others who sent their work.

Update: Ryan Leavengood wrote a report, over at the Haiku site, about his experience at WalterCon 2006. It's a very nice write up, so head over and enjoy.

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Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2006-10-31 14:24:13 Congratulations, Stippi!  I like Your iconset. I like!

Written by humungus on 2006-10-31 14:28:53 Not the one i chose thought. there's no change at all. its booring to me.. i hope we can change icon themes in the future..

Written by Rene on 2006-10-31 14:29:24 I'll take that as a compliment if it means I can hold my phone while I'm sleeping and not slump over on the desk. :P

congrats, Stippi! Written by tigerdog on 2006-10-31 15:55:14 A well-designed and thoroughly thought-out iconset. The slight perspective will take some getting used to for an old dog like me, but your use of color and faithfulness to the original deserve our thanks.    Only one problem, "HaikuFox" for Firefox no longer looks like Haiku OS!

Nice icons, sleeping Rene Written by David J. Orman on 2006-11-01 15:40:00 It's funny to see my old buddy "sleeping" at waltercon, but I think - more likely - he just had his eyes closed... resting..... :P    On topic, however, the new icons look nice. I'm glad something that didn't deviate too far from what made BeOS look/feel "right" got chosen.

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