Hello,
I’m Andrea, an Italian universitary student (2st years of Computer Science in “La Sapienza” Univesity of Rome). I am writing to find out more about the project “Write a basic Dis interpreter for web browsers in Dart”. I found this project so interesting because combines Dart language (I discovered it few weeks ago but I love it for his sintax very similar to Java) and DIS. I didn’t know 9Plan and DIS until a few days ago but as soon as I read DIS specification ( http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/dis.html) I found this project an exciting challenge. The DIS virtual machine is an opportunity to work on that branch of computer science that I like most: Computer organization and design. Implement a virtual machine (with its instruction set very close to the machine language) in a high level, web oriented language should be *really fun*! Do not you think so? If possible I would like to receive more information on skill requirements in order to participate in this project. Any information, links or other documentation of DIS would be welcomed! P.S.: I'm still working on my english. If there is any error please forgive me: I'm debugging! :D Il giorno martedì 9 aprile 2013 01:29:41 UTC+2, Anthony Sorace ha scritto: > > Folks, > > We're in! Plan 9 has been accepted to participate in this year's > Summer of Code. This will be our fifth year participating, and as for > the past few, we'll be again serving as an umbrella organization for > the extended family of Plan 9 projects, including Inferno, Plan 9 from > User Space, and so on. > > I've filled in our profile on Melange (the webapp that Google uses > to run the program) so we're visible on the accepted-orgs list[1], but > I'm still going around updating various things, so (for example) the wiki > isn't updated yet. This should all be done shortly. > > So now the fun work starts. We need to get as many students as > we reasonably can interested in what we're doing and convinced that > working with us for a summer is a good plan (and, really, who could > argue with that?). More students yield more accepted projects, and > better ones to pick from. > > We could also still use more mentors and ideas, of course. The > ideas page[2] is still the correct place to submit those. Just follow the > format of the existing example and attach your name for any idea > (including existing ones) you'd be willing to mentor for. As a reminder, > putting your name there now is not a commitment to mentor any > particular proposal; we'll still evaluate those as they come in. > > The next big milestone is when student applications open on > April 22. Until then, come hang out in #plan9-gsoc or #plan9 on > irc.freenode.net if you're interested in answering student questions. > > This is pretty exciting. > Anthony > > [1] > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013 > [2] > http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc-2013-ideas/index.html > >
