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

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. --

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-01 Thread sirjofri
Hello, many many really cool ideas. Most of them get a big heart icon, but I don't want to repeat your ideas. So consider this one large heart for all of them ♥️. My annotations are inline. 01.02.2021 08:16:58 cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org: (2) A Zoom/video conferencing application for

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Simon
someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card. i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere. this worked on an old pci card i had at one time. -Steve On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace

[9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread cigar562hfsp952fans
Anthony Sorace writes: > Hello! After a few years away, we’ll be applying to Google’s Summer of Code > program again this year. ... > 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 Plan 9-related: (1)

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

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

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