From: "Patrick Kelly" <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: <corey@bitworthy.net>,
"'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:20:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000401cadf5e$72734fc0$5759ef40$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004181751.17158.corey@bitworthy.net>
Then let's see it happen; I'm not sure what you're waiting for.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-bounces@9fans.net] On Behalf Of Corey
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 8:51 PM
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women
>
> On Sunday 18 April 2010 13:58:19 erik quanstrom wrote:
> [purposefully removed context surrounding the following statement:] <snip>
> > seems awful limiting for a research os.
> >
>
> Exactly.
>
>
> Plan X proposes an extension of 9 space for the experimental purpose of promoting and supporting an additional class of research
> vectors using Plan 9 technologies.
>
> The official Plan 9 source base is used as a seed platform from which to build one or more alternate Plan 9 based distributions, with the
> goal of fulfilling a different collection of somewhat higher-level use-cases than what Plan 9 proper is optimized towards.
>
> Some examples of research areas and theoretical use-cases that a Plan X project might help foster:
>
> * Plan 9 based handheld/phone platform
>
> * Personal home distributed network serving 9'ified general purpose end-user applications via a clean yet contemporary gui over 9P
>
> * a distribution focused towards increasing the ability of developers to comfortably run a native Plan 9 installation as their day-to-day
> os at their workplaces
>
> * Plan 9 based os for iPad/WePad-like tablet devices
>
>
> The initial milestone for Plan X is simply to stake out an appropriate space somewhere that will facilitate productive collaboration and
> "greenfield"
> exchange of ideas between interested parties in a non-hostile environment.
>
> If it languishes, so be it - the experiment would then be considered DOA - but at least the space will be there for potential future
> collaboration: the catalyzing spark of new communities and projects are impossible to predict.
>
>
> <further explanation/ideas abridged, to prevent "TLDR" responses>
>
>
> Respectfully
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2010-04-16 11:57 [9fans] TeX: hurrah! tlaronde
2010-04-16 12:43 ` Jacob Todd
2010-04-16 13:20 ` David Leimbach
2010-04-16 13:32 ` Alexander Sychev
2010-04-16 13:47 ` tlaronde
2010-04-16 14:07 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-16 14:12 ` James Chapman
2010-04-16 14:27 ` Alexander Sychev
2010-04-16 16:19 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-16 16:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-16 16:47 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-16 17:05 ` Jack Johnson
2010-04-16 17:55 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-16 18:14 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-16 18:22 ` Joseph Stewart
2010-04-16 18:37 ` James Chapman
2010-04-16 18:55 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-16 22:10 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-16 23:00 ` Jorden M
2010-04-18 4:24 ` Joel C. Salomon
2010-04-18 7:22 ` [9fans] C++ support [was: TeX: hurrah!] EBo
2010-04-18 8:52 ` lucio
2010-04-18 14:30 ` Jorden M
2010-04-18 12:45 ` [9fans] TeX: hurrah! Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-19 12:31 ` James Chapman
2010-04-19 8:34 ` [9fans] C++ support [was: TeX: hurrah!] staalmannen
2010-04-16 18:27 ` [9fans] TeX: hurrah! Patrick Kelly
2010-04-16 17:11 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-16 17:17 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-16 17:46 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-04-16 18:10 ` tlaronde
2010-04-16 18:10 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-16 23:58 ` [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!) Corey
2010-04-16 23:58 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-04-17 4:20 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-17 4:29 ` lucio
2010-04-17 6:49 ` Corey
2010-04-17 7:41 ` lucio
2010-04-17 9:39 ` Corey
2010-04-17 12:20 ` lucio
2010-04-17 13:46 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-17 14:02 ` lucio
2010-04-17 14:19 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-17 14:25 ` lucio
2010-04-17 14:54 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-17 16:09 ` lucio
2010-04-17 16:26 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-17 18:01 ` lucio
2010-04-17 18:26 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-19 7:15 ` Tim Newsham
2010-04-17 16:30 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-17 17:01 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-17 17:46 ` lucio
2010-04-17 17:58 ` lucio
2010-04-17 18:33 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-17 17:29 ` Albert Skye
2010-04-17 13:39 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-17 17:45 ` Albert Skye
2010-04-17 16:30 ` Jack Johnson
2010-04-17 17:41 ` lucio
2010-04-17 12:06 ` Nick Frolov
2010-04-17 17:06 ` Iruata Souza
2010-04-18 19:45 ` Corey
2010-04-17 18:55 ` Richard Miller
2010-04-18 16:48 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-19 2:10 ` Jack Johnson
2010-04-19 3:21 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-17 17:09 ` Jack Johnson
2010-04-17 7:28 ` SHRIZZA
2010-04-17 10:21 ` Corey
2010-04-17 14:00 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-18 19:26 ` [9fans] Mars Needs Women Corey
2010-04-18 20:58 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-19 0:51 ` Corey
2010-04-19 1:20 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2010-04-19 3:33 ` John Floren
2010-04-19 4:46 ` lucio
2010-04-19 0:10 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-19 3:18 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-19 12:14 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-25 4:20 ` Rahul Murmuria
2010-04-25 6:14 ` Corey
2010-04-25 15:22 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-25 22:33 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-25 23:07 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-25 23:35 ` Alex Lee
2010-04-26 2:04 ` [9fans] [PlanX] " Corey
2010-04-26 4:06 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-26 5:24 ` Corey
2010-04-26 8:08 ` hiro
2010-04-26 13:06 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-26 18:42 ` Corey
2010-04-26 19:24 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-26 19:55 ` Corey
2010-04-27 9:25 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-25 18:55 ` [9fans] " blstuart
2010-04-26 1:01 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-19 8:45 ` [9fans] C, APE, Posix C H Forsyth
2010-04-17 19:27 ` [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!) Bakul Shah
2010-04-17 21:35 ` C H Forsyth
2010-04-18 15:52 ` Scott Sullivan
2010-04-18 20:58 ` C H Forsyth
2010-04-19 1:43 ` Jeff Sickel
2010-04-18 18:24 ` Bakul Shah
2010-04-16 18:03 ` [9fans] TeX: hurrah! Joel C. Salomon
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