From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <52894C22.1060708@debu.gs> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:07:14 +0000 From: Pete User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130918 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [9fans] Summer of Code as Thou Wilt Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8aa92e8a-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 As you may recall, MycroftIV announced earlier this year the Summer of Code as Thou Wilt ( http://9fans.net/archive/2013/05/38 ), in which he offered some compensation for people that did interesting but unfunded=C2= =B9 open-source Plan 9 and Inferno hacking. Summer is well over, so it is time to start the second half (paying out the rewards) of the Summer of Code as Thou Wilt, the "Fall Slash Winter of Getting Paid for the Code That Thou Wrote as Thou Would'st During the Summer of Code as Thou Wilt" (which Reverso Labs is helping to organize logistically, which is why I'm the one sending this email). Before we get to the pragmatic concerns, due to the fire damage to the Central Headquarters of the Lunar Revolution, MycroftIV's timetable for large-scale Plan 9 based fiction/reality bind-hybridization has been delayed, but he promises to return to the Plan 9 community soon. He would also like to address concerns that he lost his mind completely due to overwork on the ANTS project. He confirms this is true and that going crazy was the best thing that ever happened to him. He spent the summer riding a custom-built bicycle around his city in runic shapes while holding quartz crystals aloft and shouting "Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony" at drunk college students. (I have not seen this with my own eyes, but I believe him when he tells me he did this.) If you did hacking of the aforementioned type during the summer, please get in touch by emailing fallslashwinter@reverso.be. (Even if you don't want to receive compensation, even if you don't want to say who you are, etc., we would still like to hear from you.) That email address will eventually go away, so please contact us as soon as you can. Please include this information when you contact us: =C2=B7 Your name ("real" name, nom de plume, nom de guerre, whatever) =C2=B7 A link to the code=C2=B2 for the project(s) that you worked on =C2=B7 A description of the project =C2=B7 A Paypal=C2=B3 account, included in the repo somewhere (to prevent shenanigans of people claiming other people's code) =C2=B7 Optionally, a link to your personal site, blog =C2=B7 Whether or not you want your project/name/site/etc. to be listed o= n the (pending) CATW=E2=81=B4 site As I said, we would like to hear from you even if you decline payment, in which case all of the information is optional. (Why would you do that, though?) If you want the payment, only the personal site link is optional. Thanks very much! =E2=80=94 MycroftIV, via Reverso Labs. ---- =C2=B9 i.e., not part of your job, not part of GSoC, etc., since the goal= is to fund people that don't get funded otherwise. =C2=B2 Preferably Mercurial or Git repos, but tarballs/Venti scores/directories in contrib/etc. are fine, too. =C2=B3 Yeah, Paypal, sorry. We might be able to make other arrangements = if you *can't* do Paypal, but no promises. =E2=81=B4 Not to be confused with "cat -v"=E2=81=B5, which is considered = harmful. =E2=81=B5 Not to be confused with cat-v.org, which is a website and not a= BSD extension=E2=81=B6 to cat(1)=E2=81=B7. =E2=81=B6 https://raw.github.com/pete/cats/master/4.3bsd-cat.c =E2=81=B7 Although it was named after=E2=81=B8 the considered-harmful BSD= extension to=20 cat(1). =E2=81=B8 Or, technically, named after the presentation given by Rob Pike= and Brian W. Kernighan, which was entitled "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", a title derived from their perspective=E2=81=B9 on the harmfulness of the BSD extensions to cat(1). =E2=81=B9 It's the correct perspective.