From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1a075bc081158dd466c23ba3c4c26c82@quanstro.net> References: <1a075bc081158dd466c23ba3c4c26c82@quanstro.net> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:06:23 +0530 Message-ID: From: Vinu Rajashekhar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c282cee-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:52 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > personally, i think the best contributions come > from people who have a real personal need or > better want to solve a problem, solve it and > contribute the solution back to the community. > Yes, I do agree with that. > i think that's why unix and plan 9 exist at all. > > so i would encourage folks who would like to > contribute to find stuff they're intereted in. > > i also think that it may be a good idea for > us to figure out how to help folks who would > like to take on projects like this do so outside > the framework of gsoc. I wasn't thinking about doing this as a GSOC project, I wanted to do something for my master's project which was a hardcore open-source implementation, that's why I was going through the gsoc ideas page. > > i'm willing to contribute time to that end. > > - erik > > -- Vinu Rajashekhar, 5th Year Dual Degree Student, Deptt of Computer Science & Engg, IIT Kharagpur, India.