Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Corey <corey@bitworthy.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 April 2010 13:58:19 erik quanstrom wrote:
> [purposefully removed context surrounding the following statement:]
> <snip>
>> seems awful limiting for a research os.
>>
>
> Exactly.
>
>
> Plan X proposes an extension of 9 space for the experimental purpose
> of promoting and supporting an additional class of research vectors using
> Plan 9 technologies.
>
> The official Plan 9 source base is used as a seed platform from which to
> build one or more alternate Plan 9 based distributions, with the goal of
> fulfilling a different collection of somewhat higher-level use-cases than
> what Plan 9 proper is optimized towards.
>
> Some examples of research areas and theoretical use-cases that a
> Plan X project might help foster:
>
> * Plan 9 based handheld/phone platform
>
> * Personal home distributed network serving 9'ified general purpose
> end-user applications via a clean yet contemporary gui over 9P
>
> * a distribution focused towards increasing the ability of
> developers to comfortably run a native Plan 9 installation
> as their day-to-day os at their workplaces
>
> * Plan 9 based os for iPad/WePad-like tablet devices
>
>
> The initial milestone for Plan X is simply to stake out an appropriate
> space somewhere that will facilitate productive collaboration and "greenfield"
> exchange of ideas between interested parties in a non-hostile environment.
>
> If it languishes, so be it - the experiment would then be considered DOA -
> but at least the space will be there for potential future collaboration: the
> catalyzing spark of new communities and projects are impossible to predict.
>
>
> <further explanation/ideas abridged, to prevent "TLDR" responses>
>
>
> Respectfully

The examples you give don't really need a fork of Plan 9, but if you
really want to fork it just do it. You don't need permission or
anybody's blessing, but if you're looking for somebody to say "Sounds
great, where do you want me to start?" you'll probably be waiting a
long time, because nobody's going to sign up for a project backed up
by nothing but talk.

John Floren