Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-02-01 Thread ori
Quoth Anthony Sorace : > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the application is the > project ideas page. If you’ve got ideas that seem like they’d > be a good fit for the program, and *especially* if you’re up for > mentoring them, please think about how to describe them in > sufficient d

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-02-01 Thread raingloom
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 03:26:35 -0800 Bakul Shah wrote: > Chibi-Scheme supposedly works on plan9 though I haven’t played with > it in years. Chibi is very broken on arm64 and possibly other architectures. I have attempted to fix it but didn't get far. -- 9fan

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-02-01 Thread Bakul Shah
On Jan 31, 2021, at 4:36 PM, ~vidak wrote: > > There are various languages we were thinking of doing the implementation > in, ultimately some flavour of scheme. Perhaps one that could compile to > C. There is Nils Holm’s s9fes Scheme. It is strictly an interpreter but easy to extend with C cod

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-02-01 Thread svaderaa
This has been my dream for the past year, I am a  student(36yrs) , coming to programming after a 20year break , I was a musician for the last 6 years. I have a diploma in C from when I was 13 , other than that I'm drop out, so no Uni Degree(just a diploma in Biotech). Though I had a dream of cre

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-02-01 Thread sirjofri
Hello ~vidak, Quoth ~vidak : > I am currently a computer science undergrad, and I have a project > idea. Me and a few friends from the fediverse were thinking of > implementing the ActivityPub protocol (mastodon/pleroma) into plan9 as a > kind of 'social file system', or 'socialfs'. Iirc there's

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-01-31 Thread ~vidak
Hey! I am currently a computer science undergrad, and I have a project idea. Me and a few friends from the fediverse were thinking of implementing the ActivityPub protocol (mastodon/pleroma) into plan9 as a kind of 'social file system', or 'socialfs'. The idea, as I take it, would be to introduce

[9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021

2021-01-29 Thread Anthony Sorace
Hello! After a few years away, we’ll be applying to Google’s Summer of Code program again this year. Summer of Code is a program Google runs where they fund students to work with mentors from open source organizations. The primary purpose of the program is to help students work with real-world