* [9fans] inquiry about project sponsorship outside GSoC
@ 2014-09-17 21:33 Caleb Malchik
2014-09-17 23:22 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
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From: Caleb Malchik @ 2014-09-17 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Greetings 9fans,
I am a senior studying computer science at Tufts University. I'm
interested in Plan 9 and frequently read this list. As seniors at Tufts
we are required to do a year long capstone project; it's fairly open
ended but must be motivated by some external sponsor. If sponsoring a
group of 3 university students to do a year-long project around Plan 9
sounds cool, read on!
What project we choose to do (Plan 9 or otherwise) is still up in the
air, and depends on our sponsor. In the Plan 9 vein, the GSoC wiki page
has a nice selection of projects that are of comparable size:
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc-2014-ideas/index.html
Some projects from that page that seem particularly intersting and
in-scope:
* alternative window system
* create additional modules for pq
* Kernel lock analyzer for amd64 kernel
* Kernel lock timing analyzer for amd64 kernel
* a per-processor scheduler
* Implement TLS 1.2 in libsec
* Add support for OAuth2 Login authentication to factotum
* 9p on Arduino Yun
* Teach Plan 9 to speak mDNS
We're also very open to other project ideas.
Your role as a sponsor would look something like this: fall semester
(between now and mid-December) you would help define requirements and a
deliverables timeline, and approve design documents. In the spring you
would monitor progress and optionally provide support to the
implementation. There are resources for in-house support at Tufts, but
nobody here knows Plan 9 well enough to provide Plan 9-specific
support, or clarify requirements such that the project will be useful
to the community. If you are worried about the time commitment, a
couple emails per month would be sufficient once we get the ball
rolling (more frequent communication could be necessary at first to get
us to a place where we can write and test code).
If this seems at all interesting, feel free to contace me off-list.
Best,
Caleb Malchik
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* Re: [9fans] inquiry about project sponsorship outside GSoC
2014-09-17 21:33 [9fans] inquiry about project sponsorship outside GSoC Caleb Malchik
@ 2014-09-17 23:22 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
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From: Aleksandar Kuktin @ 2014-09-17 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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>On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:33:36 -0400
>Caleb Malchik <cmalchik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your role as a sponsor would look something like this: fall semester
> (between now and mid-December) you would help define requirements and
> a deliverables timeline, and approve design documents. In the spring
> you would monitor progress and optionally provide support to the
> implementation.
They used to call this mentoring.
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