The general idea of teaming up to address issues/bugs or add features is
some sort of hackathon.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:49 PM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:

> > Jeff (jas) and I have been chatting about organizing a "Plan 9 : 2020"
> > workshop.  We're trying to gauge everyone's interest, and to solicit
> agenda
> > items, venue suggestions, and hopefully volunteers to help organize it.
>
> I'd be interested in attending, and I don't mind taking some time to
> help organize.
>
> > If you have a different suggestion, or are willing to offer a venue,
> please
> > comment.
>
> Some of us have also been talking about planning an OpenBSD-style
> hackathon.  (OpenBSD hackathons: Get developers in a room, and write
> code for a week, exchanging ideas, trying to get commits into base and
> ports.  Beer is usually involved.)
>
> We'd discussed putting together something like that for Plan 9 in the
> first half of 2020. Anyone hacking on Plan 9 related code would be
> welcome.
>
> I don't know if this is a different suggestion so much as a different
> event.  Experience implies that merging the two together may be a bit
> too much in one shot.
>
> Expect a post about that when we start sorting out the details.
>
>