Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

Uhu? Who 'decided' this? And where was this 'discussed'? Certainly not
in any of the Plan 9 GSoC lists.

It is total nonsense not to apply based on pure speculation, and you
can be certain there will be an application, whatever it will be
accepted or not, who knows, and what evidence there is that things
will be any better a year from now?

Hackathons, and other 'events' have been proposed in the past, and
nobody has shown any interest in them other than to ridicule the
concept.

Five, four, and three years ago people were saying the same nonsense,
and nobody ever did anything, until somebody got feed up and applied,
some things went very wrong, but other useful stuff came out of it.

I have yet to see anything useful come from the attitude reigning in
other parts of the 'community' though, maybe ten years from now the
new 64 bit kernel will be released...

uriel

P.S.: Also note that as far as I know Glendix and suckless.org will be
applying, Inferno DS might, and Inferno OS should certainly apply too,
but I'm not counting on it.



On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> uh, sorry to hear that.
> Well, maybe next year...
> Saludos
>
> 2009/3/6, Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>:
>> > 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
>>
>>
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> Hugo
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