Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

[hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>]

uh, sorry to hear that.
Well, maybe next year...
Saludos

2009/3/6, Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>:
> > I heard that there will be a GSoC this year, are there
>  > any plans to get plan 9 as a mentoring organization?
>
>
> There has been some discussion about this among the people who
>  put together last year's application.
>
>  For whatever mixture of factors, we ended up "below the line"
>  last year.  This year more groups are expected to apply, and
>  Google has indicated they plan to support fewer groups and
>  fewer students this year as compared to last year.  Each of
>  those trends seems likely to push us further "below the line"
>  if we submit a similar application again this year.
>
>  For that reason, the thinking is that this summer we should
>  pursue alternative courses of action.  Examples might include
>  organizing some bug-fixing weekends or install fests, improving
>  performance and usability of Plan 9 in various VM's (since this
>  is probably the safest way to ensure that a new user's install
>  works the *first* time)...
>
>  Next year maybe we'll be different, and maybe GSoC will be
>  different.
>
>
>  Dave Eckhardt
>
>


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Hugo