From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <32d987d50903252032y444ebddcq670e12d1a94e4f2f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7A238j) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:59:03 -0500 References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <14ec7b180903251802q130470fco6a4d878a097640f6@mail.gmail.com> <924E6995-A949-41D6-8844-2B2FF87CB937@gmail.com> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> <20090326032009.7CFB05B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> <32d987d50903252032y444ebddcq670e12d1a94e4f2f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c79a09da-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:32 PM, "Federico G. Benavento" wrote: > > I think that gsoc is a good chance to get going stuff that > we need and we will really use. > My personal belief is that this is a really bad, if not dangerous criteria for projects. The goal for gsoc should not be to assign work for stuff 'we need' -- if we need something we should be doing it ourselves. The goal should be to create interesting projects that attract new developers and ideas to the system -- and ones tha > > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Bakul Shah > wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:25:07 CDT Eric Van Hensbergen > > wrote: >>> Also, figuring out how multitouch works with plan 9 would be >>> valuable >>> in itself -- although admitadly could be done without an iPhone. >> >> Exactly what I was thinking while reading this thread! An >> intuitive multitouch interface that goes beyond cut-n-paste >> would go very well with a 3D graphics protocol. 9gl anyone?! >> >> > > > > -- > Federico G. Benavento >