Twente9con 2004 report

-as of Sun Dec 25 22:46:52 EST 2005-

Tuesday 21 + Wednesday 22 December 2004 at University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Attendees, please help to make this page complete by adding to it and/or fixing errors.

ATTENDEES

  • boyd roberts
  • matthias teege
  • charles forsyth
  • richard miller
  • devon o'dell
  • vincent van gelderen (only tuesday 21)
  • mechiel lukkien
  • omer sinan kaya
  • sape mullender
  • axel belinfante
  • sascha wildner
  • jan meuleman (only tuesday 21 morning)
  • uriel

DISCUSSION on 21th

  • why use plan 9?
  • why teach plan 9?
  • current usage?
  • 9grid, inferno grid

DISCUSSION on 22th

  • how to make contributions visible to all?
  • stuff that bell labs people would like to see work on

Solicted contributions: (hope I got this correct - axel)

  • drivers for new hardware
  • web browser
  • usb2 (and/or firewire ieee 1394)
  • new interface to drivers, to allow stacking, e.g. for usb ethernet card

To make contributions visible: anyone who has something to share that is not ready for the distribution can apply for a directory on sources.

LECTURE on 22th

DEMOS

  • music stuff (a version of /sys/src/games/music, now on sources)
  • smardcard things (richard)
  • usb mass storage (richard)

PICTURES