> I heard that there will be a GSoC this year, are there > any plans to get plan 9 as a mentoring organization?
There has been some discussion about this among the people who put together last year's application. For whatever mixture of factors, we ended up "below the line" last year. This year more groups are expected to apply, and Google has indicated they plan to support fewer groups and fewer students this year as compared to last year. Each of those trends seems likely to push us further "below the line" if we submit a similar application again this year. For that reason, the thinking is that this summer we should pursue alternative courses of action. Examples might include organizing some bug-fixing weekends or install fests, improving performance and usability of Plan 9 in various VM's (since this is probably the safest way to ensure that a new user's install works the *first* time)... Next year maybe we'll be different, and maybe GSoC will be different. Dave Eckhardt
