From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Summer of Plan 9
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:40:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319164008.GB552@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD500ABC-E6E8-4A81-A04C-1D6531918448@9srv.net>
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:50:54AM -0400, Anthony Sorace wrote:
>[...]
> So that brings me to my two main questions for a hypothetical
> Summer of Plan 9:
>
> 1) Participation
> Do folks believe (based on knowledge of actual students, not
> just "of course Plan 9 is awesome!") that we could get some
> promising students interested in participating in such a
> program for the summer?
May I suggest a more long term perspective?
I claim that Plan9 with kerTeX (that is finally starting to get the
impetus) gives the best distributed OS for science related
publication in the academic world. Not to mention OS study by itself.
So the more Plan9 (or derived) is used---and the TeX framework is
instrumental for this---, the more attraction it will have; and,
by mere statistics, the more potential about students. And the more
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 19:17 [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012 Anthony Sorace
2012-03-16 19:36 ` tlaronde
2012-03-18 20:30 ` ron minnich
[not found] ` <CAP6exYJu1YTDWQK58cnD9T2235iaSXzphpXVTEW_6VogV3F+Sg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-18 20:35 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-18 22:06 ` Joseph Stewart
2012-03-18 22:20 ` John Floren
2012-03-18 22:39 ` Joseph Stewart
2012-03-18 23:49 ` John Floren
[not found] ` <CAL4LZyhpc=qJVNeBCX2uPLkFeD4tLGYUBPtwiDu3WWS3uqrHPg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-19 0:37 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-19 1:33 ` Calvin Morrison
[not found] ` <CAJFUHyUv=F5PrLAn4eae_28u-oinycPGPWJwVLhS552O1+LFJg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-19 2:04 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-19 2:09 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-03-19 8:47 ` tlaronde
2012-03-19 4:07 ` Tristan
[not found] ` <CAJFUHyUv=F5PrLAn4eae_28u-oinycPGPWJwVLhS552O1+LFJg@>
[not found] ` <CAJFUHyVQEO8a9uEqc8=zsh725Z_=sq-zBCvZEVTrdrsdOznszQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-19 2:16 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-19 2:40 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-03-19 3:15 ` andrew zerger
2012-03-19 18:21 ` steve
2012-03-19 15:50 ` [9fans] Summer of Plan 9 Anthony Sorace
2012-03-19 16:40 ` tlaronde [this message]
2012-03-19 9:35 ` [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012 faif
2012-03-19 11:47 ` Paschke Christoph
2012-03-19 12:10 ` tlaronde
2012-03-19 14:25 ` Christoph Paschke
2012-03-19 16:26 ` tlaronde
2012-03-19 16:30 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-19 16:52 ` tlaronde
2012-03-19 19:53 ` Christoph Paschke
2012-03-19 22:08 ` Jacob Todd
2012-03-19 22:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-03-19 23:07 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-03-19 23:24 ` Bruce Ellis
2012-03-20 8:25 ` Paschke Christoph
2012-03-20 9:17 ` Bruce Ellis
[not found] ` <CAOw7k5iJzhaX-TuCiNtvwM0=XqUK5oZG4cUV2g9DkbKJ=65YCg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-03-19 23:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-19 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-20 9:54 ` faif
2012-03-27 17:11 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-03-28 5:24 ` erik quanstrom
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