From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_7447976E-7A79-47A6-838E-0E24BEEEAAA3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) From: Anthony Sorace In-Reply-To: <0adc03fe37ebac68dc31a2683d7a66ec@mikro.quanstro.net> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:40:55 -0500 Message-Id: References: <5778ffc079ca4ad7227b37b1158b29f1@proxima.alt.za> <3b72cf2290d28c849e1f7a5ffde134a6@mikro.quanstro.net> <0adc03fe37ebac68dc31a2683d7a66ec@mikro.quanstro.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella Topicbox-Message-UUID: b752e82c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail=_7447976E-7A79-47A6-838E-0E24BEEEAAA3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I mostly agree with Erik (I don't think it's *quite* as bad as = presented, but certainly in the ballpark, and it's worth erring in that direction). In addition, one other thing to note about hardware projects in GSoC: = you have to make sure that the student, the mentor, and the backup mentor = all either have or have ready access to the part in question. For things = folks are likely to have or which can be picked up at a local shop, that's no big = deal; for "fringe" parts like this, with backorders, preorders, and/or supply constraints, it's a significant hurdle. It's not impossible, but it's = another thing that has to be sorted out. Any proposal for a hardware-based GSoC project will need to answer this question ("I have 4 and will ship them at my cost...", "you can reliably = buy these at Radio Shack...", "Potential mentors Joe and Jane have said they already have the part...", or similar). [I expect to have a first draft of the wiki pages and application up = tonight or tomorrow morning; news as it happens.] --Apple-Mail=_7447976E-7A79-47A6-838E-0E24BEEEAAA3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlLyW40ACgkQyrb52b5lrs4XbgCfRKxUnFKkd1MX0nueaNXJ0Oe0 gXkAn0e3NBGMFW9sYWnmNkbLjxSvbW4N =WHYc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_7447976E-7A79-47A6-838E-0E24BEEEAAA3--