uh, sorry to hear that. Well, maybe next year... Saludos 2009/3/6, Dave Eckhardt <davide...@cs.cmu.edu>: > > 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 > >
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