Hello,

I’m Andrea, an Italian universitary student (2st years of Computer Science 
in “La Sapienza” Univesity of Rome). I am writing to find out more about 
the project “Write a basic Dis interpreter for web browsers in Dart”.

I found this project so interesting because combines Dart language (I 
discovered it few weeks ago but I love it for his sintax very similar to 
Java) and DIS. I didn’t know 9Plan and DIS until a few days ago but as soon 
as I read DIS specification (
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/dis.html) I found this project an 
exciting challenge.

The DIS virtual machine is an opportunity to work on that branch of 
computer science that I like most: Computer organization and design. 
Implement a virtual machine (with its instruction set very close to the 
machine language) in a high level, web oriented language should be *really 
fun*! Do not you think so? 
If possible I would like to receive more information on skill requirements 
in order to participate in this project. Any information, links or other 
documentation of DIS would be welcomed! 
P.S.: I'm still working on my english. If there is any error please forgive 
me: I'm debugging! :D

Il giorno martedì 9 aprile 2013 01:29:41 UTC+2, Anthony Sorace ha scritto:
>
> Folks, 
>
>         We're in! Plan 9 has been accepted to participate in this year's 
> Summer of Code. This will be our fifth year participating, and as for 
> the past few, we'll be again serving as an umbrella organization for 
> the extended family of Plan 9 projects, including Inferno, Plan 9 from 
> User Space, and so on. 
>
>         I've filled in our profile on Melange (the webapp that Google uses 
> to run the program) so we're visible on the accepted-orgs list[1], but 
> I'm still going around updating various things, so (for example) the wiki 
> isn't updated yet. This should all be done shortly. 
>
>         So now the fun work starts. We need to get as many students as 
> we reasonably can interested in what we're doing and convinced that 
> working with us for a summer is a good plan (and, really, who could 
> argue with that?). More students yield more accepted projects, and 
> better ones to pick from. 
>
>         We could also still use more mentors and ideas, of course. The 
> ideas page[2] is still the correct place to submit those. Just follow the 
> format of the existing example and attach your name for any idea 
> (including existing ones) you'd be willing to mentor for. As a reminder, 
> putting your name there now is not a commitment to mentor any 
> particular proposal; we'll still evaluate those as they come in. 
>
>         The next big milestone is when student applications open on 
> April 22. Until then, come hang out in #plan9-gsoc or #plan9 on 
> irc.freenode.net if you're interested in answering student questions. 
>
> This is pretty exciting. 
> Anthony 
>
> [1]        
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013 
> [2]        
> http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc-2013-ideas/index.html 
>
>