From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <138575260903060931s4bbedf8eie37f01b4161d8db2@mail.gmail.com> References: <138575260902091223i5efd20cakc43b68a26f104bfc@mail.gmail.com> <5116.1236360133@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> <138575260903060931s4bbedf8eie37f01b4161d8db2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:04:29 +0100 Message-ID: <5d375e920903061104o3fdccb45vb06c106db86c7277@mail.gmail.com> From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b4eaa088-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 wrote: > uh, sorry to hear that. > Well, maybe next year... > Saludos > > 2009/3/6, Dave Eckhardt : >> > I heard that there will be a GSoC this year, are there >> =C2=A0> any plans to get plan 9 as a mentoring organization? >> >> >> There has been some discussion about this among the people who >> =C2=A0put together last year's application. >> >> =C2=A0For whatever mixture of factors, we ended up "below the line" >> =C2=A0last year. =C2=A0This year more groups are expected to apply, and >> =C2=A0Google has indicated they plan to support fewer groups and >> =C2=A0fewer students this year as compared to last year. =C2=A0Each of >> =C2=A0those trends seems likely to push us further "below the line" >> =C2=A0if we submit a similar application again this year. >> >> =C2=A0For that reason, the thinking is that this summer we should >> =C2=A0pursue alternative courses of action. =C2=A0Examples might include >> =C2=A0organizing some bug-fixing weekends or install fests, improving >> =C2=A0performance and usability of Plan 9 in various VM's (since this >> =C2=A0is probably the safest way to ensure that a new user's install >> =C2=A0works the *first* time)... >> >> =C2=A0Next year maybe we'll be different, and maybe GSoC will be >> =C2=A0different. >> >> >> =C2=A0Dave Eckhardt >> >> > > > -- > Hugo > >