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> , and source archives seem to be maintained by fewer and fewer people... Untrue, the community is quite active and alive. I've lurked for years, but this pas

> , and source archives seem to be maintained by fewer and fewer people... Untrue, the community is quite active and alive. I've lurked for years, but this past spring I stumbled on 9gridchan. I was hooked and drawn in by it's simple the interfaces, clean api's (just look at the man page for dial(2)), fresh take on a C library, and great documentation. Second, pure labs Plan 9 is pretty much unmaintained. 9front is the most up-to-date distribution complete with a very active community and a small yet extremely talented group of core developers. You also have 9gridchan which is maintained by another talented individual. 9gridchan is two things: first a 9front fork called ANTS and a publically accessible grid system where users can connect to share files, chat in an irc like chat program which is just a shared text file and the ability to plumb messages, code and images. In addition, there's spawngrid which provides on demand CPU environments similar to Linux containers.

rcarmo 8y ago
Well, only the other day people were discussing how to keep the archives alive on the mailing-list. And the community hasn’t been very active in the sense of new projects, software ports, etc. Plus the number of e-mails I get has been steadily decreasing over time...
- MisterTea 8y ago
  Depends on which community camp you're in. I'm more in the 9front camp where yes, you have to deal with a lot of younger people, some even young teens. They lurk 4chan and meme like children but it's active and there are a lot of passionate people on there. There is even a 9front discord clent called disco that's written in Go. There is also an IRC bridge (##9fans on freenode). The 9front camp might be off putting to some but I don't mind. It's good to see young people be passionate about something and actively participate.
  - calvinmorrison 8y ago
    that and hubchat is where a lot of conversation goes on. #cat-v is a perennial winner of course. There's plenty of ongoing work. the ANTS stuff in particular coming from mycrotiv is pretty interesting, though as usual somewhat whacky.
    - MisterTea 8y ago
      He's a really nice guy though. 9front didn't do itself any favors with the arrogance and RTFM mentality so I didnt feel comfortable asking questions. But mycroftiv really makes hubchat pleasant and welcoming along with the others. I felt comfortable asking questions that I felt were dumb, e.g. why does 9fs 9fat fail in a drawterm session? "Oh you just have to `bind -a '#S' /dev` to get the serial ata controller in your shells namespace" Cool people.

rcarmo 8y ago

Well, only the other day people were discussing how to keep the archives alive on the mailing-list. And the community hasn’t been very active in the sense of new projects, software ports, etc. Plus the number of e-mails I get has been steadily decreasing over time...

MisterTea 8y ago
Depends on which community camp you're in. I'm more in the 9front camp where yes, you have to deal with a lot of younger people, some even young teens. They lurk 4chan and meme like children but it's active and there are a lot of passionate people on there. There is even a 9front discord clent called disco that's written in Go. There is also an IRC bridge (##9fans on freenode). The 9front camp might be off putting to some but I don't mind. It's good to see young people be passionate about something and actively participate.
- calvinmorrison 8y ago
  that and hubchat is where a lot of conversation goes on. #cat-v is a perennial winner of course. There's plenty of ongoing work. the ANTS stuff in particular coming from mycrotiv is pretty interesting, though as usual somewhat whacky.
  - MisterTea 8y ago
    He's a really nice guy though. 9front didn't do itself any favors with the arrogance and RTFM mentality so I didnt feel comfortable asking questions. But mycroftiv really makes hubchat pleasant and welcoming along with the others. I felt comfortable asking questions that I felt were dumb, e.g. why does 9fs 9fat fail in a drawterm session? "Oh you just have to `bind -a '#S' /dev` to get the serial ata controller in your shells namespace" Cool people.