From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <89FDB329-B008-41C3-BAB2-3B8B801BE9B2@gmail.com> <02f5fc7d-bf68-4f91-ab82-6b79d6cebe99@posteo.net> From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 14:16:30 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms Topicbox-Message-UUID: e00c59fa-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 9/2/18, Lucio De Re wrote: > On 9/2/18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> already cinap is supporting dp9ik in drawterm, so... >> > That's subversive in the most practical sense. Is academia aware of it > and its import? That is what curatorship (a friend from past days was > and may still be the curator of the South African National (Art) > Gallery, I am thinking of the role he and his predecessors play in the > Arts landscape): inform potentially interested parties of the > existence of something valuable. > > Of course, it is clearly not only academia that needs to know and > curatorship would extend beyond that, clearly. Sponsorship is probably > even more important. A curator may be able to justify a salary from a > successful crowd-funding effort, for example. > > Am I being unreasonably optimistic? > > Lucio. > > I'm not aware of adademia, but funds and code are always welcome.