## Bazki
-[Bazki](http://bazki.mit.edu/) is a wiki written in Python designed around several principles: structured data with object-oriented inheritance; using a wiki language with powerful macros that can be compiled into either HTML or PDF (via LaTeX); and making the content editable offline using a VCS. Bazki works enough to to be useful, but it has lots of room for improvement and probably would benefit from some design changes.
+[Bazki](http://bazki.mit.edu/) is a wiki written in Python designed around several principles: structured data with object-oriented inheritance; using a wiki language with powerful macros that can be compiled into either HTML or PDF (via LaTeX); and making the content editable offline using a VCS. Bazki works enough to to be useful, but it has lots of room for improvement and probably would benefit from some design changes. It could also definitely use documentation.
_Contact: xavid_
_Contact: jhamrick_
+## Multiple views in BarnOwl
+
+[BarnOwl](http://barnowl.mit.edu/) nominally has views support. However, it consists of verifying that the view name is "main" and returning an error otherwise. It would be nice to maintain multiple sets of view state at once. This would involve figuring out semantics, moving some data structures around, adding the new functionality, designing some interface, and probably much testing for subtle bugs.
+
+_Contact: davidben_
+
+## Etherpad
+
+[Etherpad](http://etherpad.com/) is an awesome tool for online collaborative text editing. It's recently been open-sourced; set up a Java servlet container on XVM, make it work, and then start adding cool MIT features like, oh, the ability to edit daemon.etherpad-writable files in AFS, login with certs and see all your files, and print to Athena printers. Or add cool non-MIT features such as an Emacs client (possibly proxying [Infinote](http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/wiki/Infinote/Protocol), which appears to have some F/OSS implementations already), or integration with [codepad](http://codepad.org/) or [gists](http://gist.github.com/).
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
+## RFC pretty-printing
+
+I think every RFC website I know of just puts the entire RFC plain text in a <pre&rt; tag. It should be possible to parse out the headers and footers every "page", make section headings into useful ones, and reflow the non-diagram text in a proportional font, which would make RFCs more readable.
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
+## scripts.mit.edu file upload form
+
+Really, it should not be as hard as it is to make a website where people can upload files too big for e-mail to your locker. Either find a good, simple, PHP or Python or something file upload app, or write a (relatively small) one of your own and a scripts autoinstaller.
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
+## fakechrooted distros in AFS
+
+Thanks to the deeply disturbing magic of a couple of programs named fakeroot and fakechroot, you can without root privileges enter a "chroot" of an operating system and look at how things work in it. Create some appropriate chroots for popular Linux distros in a locker and appropriate wrapper scripts.
+
+_Contact: geofft, broder_
+
+## A couple of C/C++ hacking projects
+
+* Each AFS cell has its own database of users and groups. If you run `ls`, it will look up users and groups against the local machine's conception of users and groups, so if you take a stock Linux etc. machine and look at most any AFS cell, you'll get a bunch of unhelpful numbers. Make an interface that stands a decent chance of being merged into upstream `ls` to permit it to call `pts examine` (or, rather, the AFS library equivalent) against the appropriate servers instead of `getpwnam` etc. on AFS files. See also [Debathena Trac #300](http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/300).
+* OpenSSH has an option to enable [non-strict acceptor checking](http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh-patches/strict-acceptor) for Kerberos authentication, so you can ssh to, say, scripts.mit.edu and successfully authenticate despite being load-balanced to a machine that thinks its name is, say, old-faithful.mit.edu. (Specifically a non-strict acceptor lets you authenticate to a machine using any credential in its keytab; a strict acceptor will require that you authenticate to the specific key for the machine's name.) Port the non-strict acceptor option to [Cyrus SASL](http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/) so that scripts.mit.edu can pull the same trick for SVN and LDAP and so forth.
+* I often find that [sbuild](http://packages.debian.org/stable/sbuild) installs many of the same packages into the "base" chroot; for instance, a bunch of Debathena packages depend on cdbs and config-package-dev. sbuild should have the ability to take advantage a chroot with these packages preinstalled (so long as all the packages in this chroot still are a subset of the build dependencies), and for extra awesome bonus points, look at a repository and suggest what non-base chroots I should create.
+* [Write a caching NSS module](http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/486) that will play more nicely with Debathena than nscd (the current solution) does. It will probably end up looking like nss_nonlocal.
+
+_Contact: mostly geofft_
+
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