This year Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a mentoring organization at the Google Summer of Code!

We are interested in all kinds of projects related to Plan 9, Plan 9 from User Space, 9P and Inferno. We have a list of ideas but we are happy to help you come up with a project that suits your interests and skills best.

Aside from the 4500$ provided as part of GSoC, we will send all participants a fantastic Glenda T-Shirt!

Hurry up, the deadline to apply is the 24 of March!

The first Swedish wmii9con will take place the 18/19 of February in Stockholm.

The main aim is to have fun and meet other Plan 9 and wmii users. It will be more more of a party with a bunch geeks than any sort of conference, but if you are interested in learning more about Plan 9 feel free to drop by and have some drinks with us.

I also will be speaking at FOSDEM the following week and a bunch of 9fans will co me along.

In other news the new Plan 9 web site has been quietly launched which much cleaner design and the full "sources" source tree is available over the web. We also have a more friendly address: 9fans.net

The new website is generated from troff(!) source using a new tool htmlroff , it still needs a bit of polishing but works great and the html version the papers look much nicer, for example see the Security in Plan 9 paper.

I have been quite busy with various things, but I promise to try keeping this diary more updated.

Experimental Plan 9 from Bell Labs changes and patches mailing list: plan9changes

The archives have been populated with most of the changes of the last few months to have a pseudo-changelog.

It even has RSS and Atom feeds for those that like that kind of thing, not me ;)

Did some wikifs hacking and 20h got it running in 9grid.de.

caerwyn wrote a wikifs client for the Inferno version of acme, so now one can edit the Plan 9 wiki from outside Plan 9, lets hope this doesn't bring spam ;) See the lab 43 entry in the Inferno Programmer's Notebook for the details.

And today I submitted the proposal for my talk at 22C3; 20h and garbeam already have sent theirs. I hope to make it to CCC this year at last, I have missed it the last five years because I'm always too busy with work...

wmii is moving forward towards wmii-3, full 9P support is almost done... oh, and forgot to mention that v9fs will be part of the kernel 2.6.14 release!

I'm probably forgetting some other things, but work is killing me lately, I'm considering taking a couple of weeks off and go to the hackmeeting in Menorca to relax for a while.

(Oh, and I'm a Journeyer now, yay! thanks everyone that certified me)

I'm a bit annoyed that after more than a couple of months in advogato and getting certified by a quite a few people, I still can't even post comments to existing articles, which was one of my main reasons to register...

I think I wanted to post some comment to mako's article about CC(to which incidentally I made some very small contributions in the hours prior to it's publication, mostly suggesting bits that could be deleted ;)), but by now, I have forgotten what I wanted to say, except probably that mako toned it down too much ;)

Oh, and neither can I 'register' with various of the projects I'm involved(eg., wmii)... oh well...

Ok, now I should stop whining and go hack wikifs... oh, and I had an idea for a cross between wiki, blog and irc that I plan to write for Inferno. If only days had 32 hours...