From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Sorace Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_9CFDA89D-4AAA-4BCF-B52F-6E484A2F45BC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:08:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4072867.LQ7B86OH6c@coil> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <836eec6b1f8009ba1aeee8b198d88201@quintile.net> <4072867.LQ7B86OH6c@coil> Message-Id: Subject: Re: [9fans] Governance question??? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8da28dee-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail=_9CFDA89D-4AAA-4BCF-B52F-6E484A2F45BC Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > there used to be that `9grid' thingie (can't find much of it anymore), = which=20 > offered free accounts to anyone who bothered asking. >=20 > there was a public list of user accounts on some page; IIRC well over = 50. some=20 > had custom face(7)s. 9grid is a bit of an overloaded term, but I think you're thinking of = something else regardless. The Tokyo Inferno / Plan 9 Users Group (TIP9UG) was, until a catastrophic hardware failure, the longest-running public Plan 9 = resource, and had the page of faces of people with accounts, which I suspect you're = referring to, on their web site. Sadly, that's gone now, but thanks to the Wayback = Machine, we can take a look at it near the failure point: = http://web.archive.org/web/20080724201812/http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/index.h= tml Looks like in the neighborhood of ~150 people (of course, that has the = same problem of any web/public service, where that includes people who signed = up and never came back). 9srv.net (which I run) provides public accounts for interested folks. = See the wiki for instructions on making a request. It's not as well-developed as = tip9ug was, and we've got about a dozen users (same caveat as above), but it's = growing. I would like to do something like tip9ug's faces page, but haven't gotten = there yet. Anthony --Apple-Mail=_9CFDA89D-4AAA-4BCF-B52F-6E484A2F45BC 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----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk+yf5IACgkQyrb52b5lrs6MfACdGYF8o8X/gt0FghEPI0XEtP/V m3MAnjmxJ1QMsPITkfR/IJjdMQbzzXJ9 =afkk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_9CFDA89D-4AAA-4BCF-B52F-6E484A2F45BC--