On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:52 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> 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.