On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Rahul Murmuria <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hey Ebo,
> Your email to the Plan9 GsoC list reminded me that your previous email
> is yet to be answered :P
> Sorry about not responding... I was hoping Anant Narayanan, our
> project lead, would take this thread up..
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:57 AM, EBo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Rahul,
>>
> [[snip]]
>> Are there any potential mentors on the list I could start discussing
>> potential project details for GSoC applications for Glendix, Plan9
>> and
>> Google?
>>
>
> Well, last time it was only Anant Narayanan who was a mentor from our
> side. You never know what might happen next year. Its too early to be
> talking about GSoC. However, all you need for being eligible is to be
> a student. Its fine if you started working on the project already a
> few months ahead, when you apply as a student through GSoC. So feel
> free to start hacking on the project right away. We apologize for the
> low activity on this project the last few months, but both Anant and I
> have been busy with grad school...
>
I am still alive, but cab do nothing other than offer opinions,
advice, and the occasional technical answer.
>> As a note, I have roughly 30 years of programming experience from
>> twiddling bits on real-time hardware to scientific visualization and
>> modeling. My current research and interest is self-adaptive software
>> engineering in multi-scale integrative modeling. With the heavy-
>> lifting of providing functional replacements for MPI/PVM and Globus
>> (see: "Petascale Plan 9 on Blue Gene") this seems a fruitful
>> approach.
Cool.
>
> I did not really comprehend much of what you said there. I know what I
> want to do with this project, and I am doing what I can minus any 30
> years of programming experience. Heck, I am not ever near as old! I
> would love for you to join us, and if you can break down your
> questions into more simple packets and make em specific, I would love
> to answer them. We could really use someone who likes to code.
>
>> The question I have is what can I do to help make it easier
>> to setup, run, and develop applications.
>>
Maintaining everything Glendix has by keeping the patches migrated to
the latest version of the kernel would be a big help. Making pre-built
VM images would be nice. Bootable ISOs would rock.
>
> http://www.glendix.org/docs/quickstart
>
> That should be all you need.
>
> (I apologize if this is not what you asked) :-P
>
>> While I could speculate here about suitable projects, I do not
>> currently know enough about Plan9 to have a good sense of what is
>> lacking or could best use my skills. I will continue reading through
>> the documentation to get a sense. I was hoping that I could start
>> looking for an appropriate mentor to hash these ideas/issues over
>> with.
>>
If you can't run it native, get plan9port and *use* it. Also, tinker
with 9vx. We learn by doing. Plan9port and 9vx let you learn without
wiping a hard drive for plan9. Of course contact the mailing list with
any questions.
>
> You are on the right channel. This mailing list is were you ask. When
> the question makes sense to one of us, we shall respond with whatever
> we feel is appropriate.
>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>>
>> EBo --
>>
>> ps: for various reasons I am switching my account off the university,
>> but I'm the same John David who posted before.
>>
>
> P.S.: My work and ideas for the /net project is at
> http://slashnet.wordpress.com/
> All the remaining good stuff done by Anant can be found at
> http://www.glendix.org/docs/
>
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> Rahul Murmuria
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