Program and Proceedings

A printed version of the proceedings will be provided to the attendees. A PDF of the proceedings will be posted here once available.

Live Broadcast

Presentations will be broadcast live on the Plan 9 Foundation YouTube channel.
Direct links: Day 1 — Day 2
Questions can be submitted online via the IRC channel here:

Schedule

Papers

• Revan Edfrey — Sdb: General-purpose Simple Databases
• Nicholas Ingravallo — Investigating Performance Bottlenecks in the Plan 9 SPI Driver
• Maksym Radziwill — p9wl: A 9P wayland compositor
• Konstantinn Bonnet — Audio and music production on Plan 9
• Ori Bernstein, Jacob Moody — What Are We Securing?
• Yoann Padioleau — Principia Softwarica: Plan 9 Code Explained
• Paul Lalonde — Rich Text, Markdown Preview, and External Syntax Coloring in Edwood

WiP

• Revan Edfrey — Pfs: A Caching Proxy for High Latency 9p Links
• Yoann Padioleau — Goken: The Plan 9 Toolchain Reborn
• Andrew D. Gibson — To Be Determined File System
• Anand Tamariya — Plan 9: The Infinity Notebook

Scope

This 2026 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.

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

Important Dates

March 9, 2026: Submission Deadline
March 30, 2026: Papers announced
May 7-10, 2026: The 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 include the email address of the contact author and specify that your submission is a "Paper". Submissions will be acknowledged via email. The recommended roff and TeX macros can be found at hjgit.org

Work-in-Progress Submission

Works in progress of up to 3 pages must be sent to iwp9paper at iwp9.org in PDF format. Please include the email address of the contact author and specify that your submission is a "WiP". Submissions will be acknowledged via email.

Registration

The registration deadline is May 1st, 2026. Please register either by emailing: iwp9reg at iwp9.org or registering through Zeffy.

Donation amounts are shown in the Zeffy registration page above. Please note that we can accomodate, at most, fifty (50) attendees.

Location & Travel

The workshop will be held at the University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada. This UVic link provides some information on travel options and directions to the university.

Respect

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

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Sponsors

Kula: Library Futures Academy and the Historic Computing Lab @ UVic Libraries

Program Committee

Organizing Committee

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. 10th IWP9 (2024), Philadelphia, PA, USA. 11th IWP9 (2025), Paris, France. Recordings of sessions are available on the Plan 9 Foundation YouTube channel.