Rahul Murmuria <[email protected]> said: > 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..
;-) no problem. > 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 really could not do anything before now anyway. I too was hammered with grad school. I'll just now about cleared the decks to start on plan9/glendix. Oh... this is going to be fun. > > 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. > > 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. Just consider me an old dog trying to learn new tricks ;-) > > The question I have is what can I do to help make it easier > > to setup, run, and develop applications. > > > > http://www.glendix.org/docs/quickstart > > That should be all you need. > > (I apologize if this is not what you asked) :-P The last part of the question had to do with my intended audiences -- the modeling tools which I will try to rebuild on top of plan9 are used by ecologists, biologists, and natural resource managers. They have to be intuitive and easy to learn/use. There are similar issues with OS programming too -- ex. you have to understand how plan9 represents hardware in its naming convention to boot any of the CD's on any of my machines. I'll take a look at making the hardware discovery a little more straightforward. > > 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. > > > > 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. OK. Thanks. > > 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/ Thanks. I'll take a look at these again. Well, hollidays with my best friend is calling so I'll work on this a little later ;-) Cheers, EBo -- > -- > Rahul Murmuria > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glendix?hl=en > -- -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glendix?hl=en
