If you have a project and want people to help, go ahead and add it.
- * SIPB website (sipb.mit.edu)
- * (More information here)
+ * SIPB website (sipb.mit.edu) -- talk to `price`
+ * We're working on making the website a wiki, which will hopefully
+ help it get and stay up to date in the long term. The core software
+ should be up before the hackathon.
+ * write stuff about SIPB
+ * convert material from the old sites and this doc wiki
+ * help style it to look good
* mailman.mit.edu hacking -- Talk to `kcr` or `nelhage`
* There are two ways to create mailing lists at MIT -- Moira, and
* There are a number of ways this could be implemented, including
moira <-> Mailman sync, direct Moira integration in Mailman, or
something in between or different.
- * MIT runs Mailman 2, but Mailman 3 has been released as alpha and
- may be worth investigating. It's likely to be far easier to get
- significant patches back upstream for mailman 3, if we go that
- route.
+ * MIT runs Mailman 2, but Mailman 3
+ [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2009-January/000126.html has been released]
+ as alpha and may be worth investigating. The author is explicitly
+ open to major changes for mailman 3, so we could push some of our work upstream.
* Dodona -- Talk to `jhamrick`
* `jhamrick` is working on a Zephyr bot designed to answer technical
questions using a natural-language interface, and is looking for
people to help hack on it.
+ * create a web interface using pyjamas (or something else?) for people who don't use zephyr
+ * figure out the best way to store and retrieve technical data. Currently
+ Dodona pulls from a text file and parses that information into a dictionary.
+ * improve Dodona's UI
+ * IF (and only if) we finish all of the above, start the NLP! (the fun part!)bbb
+
* `scripts.mit.edu` -- Talk to `geofft` or `quentin`
* Find some software we don't have an autoinstaller for, and write an