From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32d987d50903260530n50a3a389i43a605a242733506@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> <20090326032009.7CFB05B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> <32d987d50903252032y444ebddcq670e12d1a94e4f2f@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903260530n50a3a389i43a605a242733506@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:16:09 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c7b0a078-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: >> My personal belief is that this is a really bad, if not dangerous criter= ia >> for projects. =A0The goal for gsoc should not be to assign work for stuf= f 'we >> need' -- if we need something we should be doing it ourselves. =A0The go= al >> 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 t= o 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