We have a long-standing relationship with OSUOSL, who are excellent, since shortly after we launched. They provide the US hosting for downloads of the historical ISOs and we also have an internal “dev“ system on their open stack infrastructure. We are very grateful to them for their continued support.
As an aside, we are under-utilizing the OpenStack resources they have provisioned for us. At one point I started working on trying to get enough of the client side of the OpenStack API going so that we could spin up instances from plan 9, but I got stalled on that. OpenStack is a very popular for this sort of work, including at many commercial providers; if somebody is looking for a project that I think would be both fun and broadly useful, I might suggest that. I didn’t know about Beaver Barcamp. I think that’s a great idea. > On Jan 19, 2025, at 07:45, Cody Holliday <c...@codysse.us> wrote: > > Hey Ron, > > I did ping Lance (Ramereth) on #osuosl:irc.libera.chat, so we'll see what he > has to say once > it's morning time on the west coast. I wonder if we could extend this to the > Beaver Barcamp > (The Oregon State University Unconference), and get more students on plan 9 🙂 > > Cody > > >> On 19/01/2025 07:42, Ron Minnich wrote: >> Those are terrific ideas. I'm going to get in touch with them. I'm >> thinking the winterfell nodes (I know them well ... ) could be very >> good for NIX testing. >> >> I registered with sdf.com, I'd like to learn how to work with students >> on some of these projects. Starting off, I could use some code review >> and corrections on a buggy device I've written :-). >> >> Thanks! >> >>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> >>> wrote: >>> Speaking of 'your ideas here', now that the p9f has some formal >>> structure, it might be worth looking into OSUOSL hosting. If you plan >>> to ramp up users, that'll come with a rise in i/o on contrib, and >>> hosting costs. The folks at OSUOSL provide a good service to projects >>> in this regard and OSU students participate in operations as a learning >>> exercise. They also have several architectures available for e.g. >>> platform testing. More here https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/ >>> >>> As for trivial on-ramps, SDF hosts 'boot camps' with the explicit intent >>> of being such an on-ramp. Users are provided VMs to use, and there are >>> talks and exercises and contests that involve putting Plan 9 skills to >>> use. I recommend partnering with them! More at https://sdf.org/plan9/ >>> >>> khm >> ------------------------------------------ >> 9fans: 9fans >> Permalink: >> https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8f7df88ae8914b7d-M1d9ab2da0b3ac11ce5eeb9cb >> Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8f7df88ae8914b7d-Ma4dca7e4379f3a6f3406c38b Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
