Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women

[Corey <corey@bitworthy.net>]

On Sunday 18 April 2010 13:58:19 erik quanstrom wrote:
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> seems awful limiting for a research os.
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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.


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Respectfully