Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Federico G. Benavento
<benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My personal belief is that this is a really bad, if not dangerous criteria
>> for projects.  The goal for gsoc should not be to assign work for stuff 'we
>> need' -- if we need something we should be doing it ourselves.  The goal
>> should be to create interesting projects that attract new developers and
>> ideas to the system -- and ones tha
>>
(damn iphone interface cut me off! how's that for irony) -- what I was
going to say was

...ideas to the system -- and ones that provide opportunities for
folks to learn Plan 9
ways of doing things and incorporating new approaches into Plan 9
(like multitouch).
This is more of a general concern than specific support for the
drawterm on iphone
project idea.

>
>But, the main point of this paragraph isn't to support multi-touch, just to steer folks away
>this is a bit misleading, if someone wants to explore small screens,
>multi-touch and whatelse, why not getting a linux phone and starting
>there?
>
>I mean, drawterm for the iphone! why not for symbian?
>

I'd have no problems with those suggestions either, as far as multitouch
goes there are probably even further platforms -- even just support of
2 simultaneous mice.
But the student seems keen on iphone, and if there is a mentor
similarly interested then
I don't see a problem.

         -eric