On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:50:54AM -0400, Anthony Sorace wrote:
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> So that brings me to my two main questions for a hypothetical
> Summer of Plan 9:
>
> 1) Participation
> Do folks believe (based on knowledge of actual students, not
> just "of course Plan 9 is awesome!") that we could get some
> promising students interested in participating in such a
> program for the summer?
May I suggest a more long term perspective?
I claim that Plan9 with kerTeX (that is finally starting to get the
impetus) gives the best distributed OS for science related
publication in the academic world. Not to mention OS study by itself.
So the more Plan9 (or derived) is used---and the TeX framework is
instrumental for this---, the more attraction it will have; and,
by mere statistics, the more potential about students. And the more
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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