Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Replace language for wikifs

2014-03-21 Thread Derek Carter (aka goozbach)
On 2014-03-20, 1950, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: Hi, I've just published a Summer of Code proposal for Replace language for wikifs.[1] What do you think about my candidature. Maybe should I explain something more? BR, Szymon

[9fans] GSoC proposal: Replace language for wikifs

2014-03-20 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've just published a Summer of Code proposal for Replace language for wikifs.[1] What do you think about my candidature. Maybe should I explain something more? BR, Szymon [1]https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/hafron/5629499534213120

[9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Caleb Malchik
Greetings, I am a student interested in participating in GSoC under Plan 9. My project would involve writing a new window manager as an alternative to rio: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/alternative_window_system/index.html I thought I'd say a few words informally as my proposal

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Bence Fábián
We already have a lot of hacks to make rio tiling. In my opinion the most interesting/worthwhile projects mentioned on that wiki is to make things touchscreen friendly. 2014-03-19 9:36 GMT+01:00 Caleb Malchik cmalc...@gmail.com: Greetings, I am a student interested in participating in GSoC

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Shane Morris
Cohesive compilation of hacks? On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Bence Fábián beg...@gmail.com wrote: We already have a lot of hacks to make rio tiling. In my opinion the most interesting/worthwhile projects mentioned on that wiki is to make things touchscreen friendly. 2014-03-19 9:36

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
It would be nice to have something like old Oberon OS had; I think acme was inspired in part by it (I may be wrong). Some time ago, I had some ideas on windowing design; were anyone interested, they're here: http/www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/newUI.pdf

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
What did old Oberon have? -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 10:14:26 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: What did old Oberon have? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) - erik

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Bence Fábián
I think Plan B / Octopus's omero does these things already. I'm still voting for touch interface 2014-03-19 15:17 GMT+01:00, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: On Wed Mar 19 10:14:26 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: What did old Oberon have?

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 11:01:54 EDT 2014, beg...@gmail.com wrote: I think Plan B / Octopus's omero does these things already. I'm still voting for touch interface we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that required as step 0:

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that required as step 0: identify, purchase and write driver for enabling hardware. If someone were interested in doing this in the short term, the best option is likely tying it to

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 11:33:58 EDT 2014, a...@9srv.net wrote: I'm still voting for touch interface Not to be pedantic, but note that there isn't any voting here. Students come up with a proposal for something they'd be interested in working on for the summer, and the prospective mentors order

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm still voting for touch interface Not to be pedantic, but note that there isn't any voting here. Students come up with a proposal for something they'd be interested in working on for the summer, and the prospective mentors order them and fill however many slots we get (short version). I'd

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Mar 19 11:36:39 EDT 2014, a...@9srv.net wrote: we don't drive any touch hardware, so in the interest of success, i would not be interested in a gsoc project that required as step 0: identify, purchase and write driver for enabling hardware. If someone were interested in doing

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring the ios drawterm port back to life. Certainly. It doesn't currently build. Old binaries start up but quickly crash. From memory, I don't believe keyboard input currently works.

[9fans] GSoC proposal - Improvements to the HTML5 draw server

2014-03-19 Thread David Hoskin
Hello 9fans, I'm applying to the Plan 9 GSoC again this year. I propose to continue work on the HTML5 drawterm I started in last year's GSoC, in the hope of making it a usable alternative to the native drawterm. I have identified three major areas for improvement: * cleaning up and fixing bugs

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Wed Mar 19 10:14:26 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: What did old Oberon have? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) - erik Yes, I know what Oberon is, I even used it. Peter mentioned something

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Anthony Sorace a...@9srv.net wrote: given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring the ios drawterm port back to life. Certainly. It doesn't currently build. Old binaries start up but

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:36:34 EDT Caleb Malchik cmalc...@gmail.com wrote: For my project, I would build a tiling window manager similar to dwm (what I use on Linux). I think a dwm-style interface that could be controlled from the keyboard would provide a nice contrast to what we already have

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal - Improvements to the HTML5 draw server

2014-03-19 Thread Steven Stallion
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:07 PM, David Hoskin r...@davidrhoskin.com wrote: Hello 9fans, I'm applying to the Plan 9 GSoC again this year. I propose to continue work on the HTML5 drawterm I started in last year's GSoC, in the hope of making it a usable alternative to the native drawterm. I

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Paul Lalonde
Multiple displays and display dpi awareness in acme would make my day! Multi-display looks easy - we just need handling for adding a new row, which is already handily abstracted. Fitt's law aware mouse movement would be nice too, particularly on large screens. You could slightly trap the mouse

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Ventilator or Access to host's devices

2014-03-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 11 March 2014 08:39, tuchalia tucha...@gmail.com wrote: If it isn't, I may still be interested on working on Access to host's devices**, so where can I start looking with that? The old way way was to add an internal virtual device to Inferno's emu or 9vx or drawterm. I think the best way

Re: [9fans] GSOC proposal for plan9

2014-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
[3]. Should avoid the patent issue of the K42 system. [Yan] For this problem, I do not have any idea right now. Do we need to propose a different solution (from K42's MCS lock), but solve the same problem (do not need to pass node data structure in the parameter)? of course the simplist

[9fans] GSOC proposal for plan9

2014-03-15 Thread yan cui
Dear all, I have noticed the comments of Anthony Sorace and Quanstro in my GSOC proposal. Thanks very much! Basically, there are three problems. [1]. The timeline has the time of reading related documents and source codes, but Anthony thinks it should be solved before the coding stage. [Yan]

[9fans] GSoC proposal: Ventilator or Access to host's devices

2014-03-11 Thread tuchalia
Hi everyone! I'm trying to get to work on the Ventilator project during the GSoC, and in order to have a good proposal I'm asking for some information here. Where should I start looking? Also, I have just seen this: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/2/venti.html Is it still possible to get

Re: [9fans] GSOC proposal

2010-04-17 Thread Jeff Sickel
This is really too late for the GSoC bits. But possibly of interests for later developments... On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:03 AM, yy wrote: Would such a project be interesting for this year gsoc? Is any mentor interested in Forth? I really think acme would make a great environment for Forth

Re: [9fans] GSOC proposal

2010-03-25 Thread yy
2009/3/28 Bruce Ellis bruce.el...@gmail.com: Just a suggestion, A good forth system using acme, probably based on fgb's 4th. The goal is to conquer the Seaforth chip. I know the dev kit is US$500 but their compiler and simulator, written in forth, doesn't need hardware. And at least two

[9fans] GSOC proposal

2009-03-27 Thread Bruce Ellis
Just a suggestion, A good forth system using acme, probably based on fgb's 4th. The goal is to conquer the Seaforth chip. I know the dev kit is US$500 but their compiler and simulator, written in forth, doesn't need hardware. And at least two 9fans have a kit. brucee