From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:00:11 -0400
Subject: [9fans]  some questions--gsoc
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> hi,
> i saw some project ideias in the following page:::
> http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc-2011-ideas/index.html
> 
> i liked some project ideias, like ::
> Native asn.1 DER encode/decode library
> Make a keyboard file server
> Create an alternative window manager
> 
> but there are missing some informations like:: the skills the participant
> must have, the programming language he must know to be able to do the
> project , perhaps some exaples, links to external references, some similar
> code , etc

except for inferno projects that require limbo, almost all of the code
required will be in c.

> for the project ideia:::Native asn.1 DER encode/decode library
> 
> i have not uderstood what are the following things:::
> Write a native (non-APE) library for encoding and decoding ASN.1 DER data.

ape is the plan 9 ansi/posix emulation libraries, compiler, etc.

> 
> what is non-APE, ASN,DER data, , LDAP, RFCs,

the rest you can google.

- erik