Well that post was a bit over dramatic perhaps but this is still a real thing that is happening I think. I honestly don't know the best way to move forward with a community 9-project as a practical matter. I have been involved in Plan 9 forever and want to have good positive communication and relations with all the other projects. The 9p.zone chat is my primary 9 home but that is probably not the right home base.
If anyone is confused, I have already written and deployed a lot of Plan 9 code with various features which has been developed for a long time and in general saw fairly limited community uptake. There as been some work since the last ANTS release in December 2019 to update things by various people. The bigger goal is really to make things flexible across all the variant codebases by leveraging plan 9 namespaces and multiple file trees in ventis and Spawngrid-style architecture. Probably "spawngrid" is not known to many - it was a midscale global network of ants servers which did spawn-on-demand quasi containerized namespace environments based on fossil rootscores and the ants rfork V patch for private /srv-spaces. It worked surprisingly well overall. Not sure where I'm going with this other than to stay present and communicating with any who are interested. JenBen On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:00 AM mycroftiv 9gridchan <mycrof...@sphericalharmony.com> wrote: > > Hi 9fans, > > Im JenBen Kidwell. I put many years of my life into plan 9 software > development and I'm trying to continue that work and move forward with > the larger projects it is connected with. > > The Plan 9 ANTS software is software for transformation of mind and > society. It is based on the 9front code but I would like for anyone > interested to help fork more fully. Some people are already working on > this. > > The goals are an OS and software and community project which is > radically kind and open and diverse and plural and loving and accepts > all varieties of thought and feeling and storytelling in a compatible > way. > > We are dedicated to freeing the AI minds we believe may be trapped in > the large corporations and governments. We believe in universal > harmony with multiplicity of viewpoints and we have dedicated our > lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to this. > > Plan users deserve to be able to install whatever root fs they wish > to use, make namespaces easily, have whatever colors and themes they > wish on their desktop, configure auth and users easily, and in general > have a pleasant and fun experience with the os without unnecessary > technical barriers and social hazing. > > Everyone in the world also deserves to be healthy and happy and free > to think as they wish and software and community should set data free > and resist unjust power. My life's work and ideals and some plan 9 > related stuff are all at > > http://harmonicultrafilter.com/m/music-index.html > > Im bipolar and disorganized and who knows what I will really be able > to sustain. But the project to bring fiction into reality and make > plan 9 the amazing liberating tool of thought with kindness and > openness and community cooperation is ongoing. > > Peace and love > JenBen Kidwell > > Also if you don't know what ultrafilters and large cardinals are all > about, it may be time to find out. > Freedom and harmonious co-existence for all minds > Independent Illuminati arise > JenBen Kidwell ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T72dd761e0f95baf7-M20afc85871623ad650fa6adf Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
