From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5116.1236360133@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> References: <138575260902091223i5efd20cakc43b68a26f104bfc@mail.gmail.com> <5116.1236360133@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:31:14 +0100 Message-ID: <138575260903060931s4bbedf8eie37f01b4161d8db2@mail.gmail.com> From: hugo rivera To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b4e13016-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 uh, sorry to hear that. Well, maybe next year... Saludos 2009/3/6, Dave Eckhardt : > > 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 > > -- Hugo