Hello dear community, some time ago I started writing some kinda christmas mail to the community. Not some "special christmas edition", more like an annual reminder, invitation for looking back, and (of course) as a wish to all members to have good days with their families and friends.
However, this year is different. My mail server didn't have enough storage to even receive mails and I didn't have much time to fix it - until now. I now switched from a WORM+cache to a fsmain CWFS setup, so it's fine for another few years of saving files. I'll certainly miss my dump sometimes, but that's just how it is, maybe I'll try some venti some day. Anyways, back to topic: Usually, I'd start the mail with christmas greetings to all who celebrate, as well as to all who don't celebrate. I'd wish you all a nice end of the year, and hope for a good start of the next year 2022. However, I'm late, so I can just hope that you all celebrated well and had a good start into the new year. I'd like to look back at the last year, maybe mention (and smile) at certain events we encountered. I also invite all of you to share more stories and your personal highlights. On-topic or off-topic, I think it doesn't matter and you know very well when you spam the list with irrelevant stuff. THE YEAR 2021 Last year started with a hassle. There was a small internet storm about a certain jpg file and people began to hate 9front for something that it never was. As bad as it seemed, it feels like today nothing of that is left and everything is back to normal.[1] However, it left its traces: mycroftiv officially "ended" the live part of the 9gridchan project. Many of its services are read-only today and the gridchat is offline. Some services are still live and people continue to use them, some users are asking for ANTS patches every now and then. Good bye 9gridchan, Hello 9p.zone! Because of these events, we wanted to continue something of the spirit of 9gridchan. Therefore some individuals and 9gridchan users started 9p.zone, which wants to be some public registry with services like chat and maybe more. I tried adding some (experimental) public auth server with an additional 9front network for people to join. 9p.zone continues to live on and people are joining the chat and hanging out together. These were roughly the events of January, but from my perspective that's almost everything that happened. Well, almost. Let's not forget the official announcement of the Plan 9 foundation. Many people didn't know what exactly will happen, and to be honest, I'm still not sure about that, but they're here and organized the GSoC, which is a good thing, isn't it? Also they got the rights for the original Plan 9 sources and built a small museum about it. Welcome Plan 9 foundation. For me, large parts of the following months were shaped by not having much time for community and Plan 9 in general. "My memory of 2021 is fading" and I can only roughly summarize SOME events. Feel free to add more larger milestones I'm missing. In July, 9front released a new version "Community vs Infrastructure". Normally I wouldn't mention 9front releases, but this one changed the whole source control to git. Ori's git was good enough to be integrated and after a few sysupdates, all future sysupdates don't need python/hg anymore! I believe this is a huge step forward and it makes many things easier. Throughout the year we welcomed many new users and community members. Although I was missing many opportunities to actually meet all of you I noticed many new nick names and it's great to see the community grow. And that's basically everything I can remember right now. I personally ended the year reading through the A64 manual as well as figuring out how the Pinephone works and the 9front source code is organized, fighting blindly with u-boot; as well as fixing my mail server in the last few days[2]. I hope to be able to hang out more with many of you and dedicate more time to helping new users and writing documentation. I also hope we can organize some European/German Plan 9 meetup this year when the pandemic is (hopefully) over. Stay healthy and may God bless you! As mentioned before I encourage you to share your personal highlights, especially Plan 9 related ones. sirjofri --- 1. If you don't know what I'm talking about: Don't care too much. I don't think it's worth it. 2. Yes, I'm trying to port 9front to the Pinephone. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8425cdee7071f9dc-M15d6140f7b18f2cef014eb36 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
