10th International Workshop on Plan 9

April 12-14, 2024
Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics
3675 Market St
11th floor
Room 1104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States of America
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Program - Scope - Important Dates - Types of Submission - Paper Submission - Work-In-Progress Submission - Registration - Location & Travel - Previous Workshops

Program and Proceedings

An electronic version of the proceedings will be provided to all participants and authors and are now available here.

Live Broadcast

Presentations will be broadcast live on the Plan 9 Foundation YouTube channel.

Schedule

April 12
10:30-11:20 A Git for 9 — Ori Bernstein
11:30-11:50 centre, left and right: beyond the stereotype — Daniel Maslowski
12:00-13:30 lunch
13:30-13:50 Portability has outgrown POSIX — Jacob Moody
14:00-14:50 Distributed Industrial Protocols: Serving Modbus on Plan 9 — Thaddeus Woskwiak
15:00-15:30 break
15:30-15:50 Adapting Plan 9s listen to GNU Guix — Edouard Klein
16:00-16:20 Neoventi — Noam Preil
19:00-??? Dinner + bar
April 13
10:30-11:20 Three More Cortex-M Inferno Ports — David Boddie (remote)
11:30-11:50 5e: Memory Corruption Detection for the Rest of Us — Ori Bernstein
12:00-13:30 lunch
13:30-13:50 GPU Filesystem for Plan 9 — Joel Fridolin Meyer (remote)
14:00-14:50 Θfs: An Experimental Generalized Storage Server — Brian L. Stuart
April 14
10:00-19:00 hack!

Papers

  • A Git for 9Ori Bernstein
  • Θfs: An Experimental Generalized Storage ServerBrian L. Stuart
  • Distributed Industrial Protocols: Serving Modbus on Plan 9Thaddeus Woskwiak

WiP

  • 5e: Memory Corruption Detection for the Rest of UsOri Bernstein
  • Three More Cortex-M Inferno PortsDavid Boddie
  • Adapting Plan 9s listen to GNU GuixEdouard Klein
  • centre, left and right: beyond the stereotypeDaniel Maslowski
  • GPU Filesystem for Plan 9Joel Fridolin Meyer
  • Portability has outgrown POSIXJacob Moody
  • NeoventiNoam Preil

Scope

This 2024 edition of the International Workshop on Plan 9 aims to bring together researchers, developers and students working on Plan 9 from Bell Labs or related systems, platforms, and projects, to discuss a wide range of system and application ideas and issues.

Important Dates

February 13, 2024: Paper submission deadline
February 13, 2024: Proposals for hackathon and tutorials deadline
February 27, 2024: Paper acceptance notification
February 27, 2024: Works in Progrss submission deadline
March 6, 2024: WiP acceptance notification
March 10, 2024: Registration deadline (to receive workshop schwag)
March 13, 2024: Camera ready papers and WiP reports
April 12-14, 2024: Workshop

Types of Submission

In order to increase the interactivity of the workshop, we intend to offer a hackathon in addition to the presentation of regular and short work in progress papers. Please send your proposal to iwp9paper at iwp9.org including the topic and a short abstract of the session, the name(s) of the organizer(s), duration of the session and required infrastructure (e.g. wired/wireless network, power, video projector).

Paper Submission

Papers of up to 15 pages must be sent to iwp9paper at iwp9.org in PDF format. Please do not forget to include the email address of the contact author. Submissions will be acknowledged via email.

Work-in-Progress Submission

Works in progress of up to 3 pages must be sent to iwp9wip at iwp9.org in PDF format. Please include the email address of the contact author. Submissions will be acknowledged via email.

Registration

The registration deadline is March 10th, 2024. To register, please visit Eventbrite or send an email to iwp9reg at iwp9.org with your name, affiliation, email address, and t-shirt size, one per line. Late registrations will be accepted, but will not receive IWP9 schwag. Please note that we can accomodate, at most, fifty (50) attendees.

Location & Travel

The workshop will be held in 3675 Market St, on the campus of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in the United States.

Some attendees may need visas. To check, please look here. Letters of invitation will be available by request.

Suggested Lodging:

Hotels near Drexel QR code to a list of nearby hotels via Google Maps.

Respect

We expect that attendees will remain respectful of one another. Any organizer has the right to request an attendee to leave.

Sponsors

Professor Brian L. Stuart, Host and Faculty Sponsor, Drexel University, College of Computing and Informatics

Program Committee

Brian L. Stuart, Drexel University - Chair
Ori Bernstein, 9front
Michael Engel, University of Bamberg
John Floren, Gravwell
Daniel Maslowski, Oreboot
Ron Minnich, Samsung System Architecture Lab

Organizing Committee

Brian L. Stuart, Drexel University -- host and faculty sponsor
Ori Bernstein, 9front
Michael Engel, University of Bamberg
Daniel Maslowski, Oreboot
Ron Minnich, Samsung System Architecture Lab
Fariborz Tavakkolian, 9Netics

For further inquiries, please send an email to iwp9 at iwp9.org.

Previous workshops

1st IWP9 (2006), Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain; 2nd IWP9 (2007), Bell Labs, NJ, United States; 3rd IWP9 (2008), University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece; 4th IWP9 (2009), University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States; 5th IWP9 (2010), Seattle, WA, United States. 6th IWP9 (2011), Madrid, Spain. 7th IWP9 (2012), Dublin, Ireland. 8th IWP9 (2013), Athens, Georgia. 9th IWP9 (2023), Waterloo, ON, Canada. Recordings of sessions are availble on YouTube.