International Workshop on Plan 9, Call for Papers

[Edouard Klein]

Dear Guix devs,

The 11th International workshop on Plan 9 will take place in France this
year, at the CNAM in Paris.

Plan 9 is an operating system created in the 90s at Bell Labs, and
although it is 30 years old, it makes almost all the "innovations" we
see in the industry today (Kubernetes, Docker, virtualization, etc.)
obsolete.

The paper I published there last year featured Guix prominently, and the
one I'm preparing for this edition will do too.

Guix containers and the need for Guix to isolate the build process from
the underlying system find echoes in Plan 9's namespaces. I'm posting
here because I think this connection could be of interest to some of you
here.

It is the conference where I've learned the most.

I'm copying the call for contributions below and I invite you to at
least attend this incredible conference next May:

http://iwp9.org/

Looking forward to seeing you there (maybe),

Edouard.


 This 2025 edition of the International Workshop on Plan 9 aims to bring
 together researchers, developers, and students working on Plan 9,
 Inferno, the 9P family of protocols, and related technologies to
 discuss advances in these fields, ideas for further improvement,
 applications, and impact of these ideas on the broader computer science
 community; and to work together on key issues identified during the
 first two days of the workshop or during the discussions leading up to
 it.

This year, our host having a focus on computer security, papers about
cryptography, authentication, fault tolerance, robustness, security
applications, error detection and remediation, software reliability,
etc. are particularly welcome.

A second area of focus this year include Plan 9 and its derivatives’
history, and their impact on the broader computer industry. A round
table will be held on these topics, and the history team at the Cnam is
willing to assist in conducting oral history interviews with interested
parties. Any paper or talk proposal focusing on the history of these
technologies will also be particularly welcome.

As usual, the workshop topics also include, and are not restricted to:
- system architecture
- system services
- file systems and servers
- applications
- projects for other platforms related to Plan 9