I'm interested!
On Apr 8, 2013 7:31 PM, <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> Folks,
>
>         We're in! Plan 9 has been accepted to participate in this year's
> Summer of Code. This will be our fifth year participating, and as for
> the past few, we'll be again serving as an umbrella organization for
> the extended family of Plan 9 projects, including Inferno, Plan 9 from
> User Space, and so on.
>
>         I've filled in our profile on Melange (the webapp that Google uses
> to run the program) so we're visible on the accepted-orgs list[1], but
> I'm still going around updating various things, so (for example) the wiki
> isn't updated yet. This should all be done shortly.
>
>         So now the fun work starts. We need to get as many students as
> we reasonably can interested in what we're doing and convinced that
> working with us for a summer is a good plan (and, really, who could
> argue with that?). More students yield more accepted projects, and
> better ones to pick from.
>
>         We could also still use more mentors and ideas, of course. The
> ideas page[2] is still the correct place to submit those. Just follow the
> format of the existing example and attach your name for any idea
> (including existing ones) you'd be willing to mentor for. As a reminder,
> putting your name there now is not a commitment to mentor any
> particular proposal; we'll still evaluate those as they come in.
>
>         The next big milestone is when student applications open on
> April 22. Until then, come hang out in #plan9-gsoc or #plan9 on
> irc.freenode.net if you're interested in answering student questions.
>
> This is pretty exciting.
> Anthony
>
> [1]     http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013
> [2]
> http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc-2013-ideas/index.html
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