Added link to SIPB Library catalog

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@@ -145,20 +145,18 @@ configuration mangement framework is the Right Answer here. We looked at
 Puppet and a bunch of others last summer and concluded none fit our
 workflow well, but we could re-evaluate that.
 
-_Contact: geofft, scripts-team_
+*Note:* mitchb has begun working on this. Coordinate with him if you'd like to
+work on this project.
 
-We'd like a cron job to automatically tell us if
-there are RPM packages installed on some but not all of the servers,
-or if there are changes in /etc, other than hostname and such, that we
-haven't committed to the scripts Subversion repository.
+_Contact: geofft, scripts-team_
 
 ## SIPB Library
 
 SIPB has a bunch of books in its library. It'd be nice if a list of
 the library books also existed online in some sort of sane, searchable
-database. One possible platform is the [Exhibit](http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/) project (which originates from a collaboration between the Haystack group in CSAIL and the MIT Libraries). This would require mostly just making a spreadsheet of the information.
+database. One possible platform is the [Exhibit](http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/) project (which originates from a collaboration between the Haystack group in CSAIL and the MIT Libraries). This would require mostly just making a spreadsheet of the information. Check out <http://sipb.mit.edu/library/> for the current state of the catalog.
 
-_Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_
+_Contact: zhangc, fawkes_
 
 ## Improve the Setup and UI for new users of Zephyr
 
@@ -213,6 +211,9 @@ _Contact: davidben_
 
 [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/).
 
+*Note:* tvald has set up [etherpad.mit.edu](http://etherpad.mit.edu/).
+Coordinate with him if you'd like to get features into etherpad.mit.edu.
+
 _Contact: geofft_
 
 ## RFC pretty-printing
@@ -233,12 +234,6 @@ Thanks to the deeply disturbing magic of a couple of programs named fakeroot and
 
 _Contact: geofft, broder_
 
-## Zcommit: A git-to-zephyr connector
-
-For git repositories that we have control over, it's easy to use our home-grown [post-receive zephyr hook](http://web.mit.edu/snippets/git-hooks/zephyr-post-receive) to send zephyrs when somebody pushes. We can't directly edit hooks on sites like [Github](http://github.com). However, Github does support [submitting a POST request](http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/) to an arbitrary URL when somebody pushes. We've created [zcommit.mit.edu](http://zcommit.mit.edu) to allow people to send commit zephyrs from Github.  Now we'd like to extend it to other public code hosting platforms with similar APIs, such as [Bitbucket](http://www.bitbucket.org/help/ServiceIntegration#post) and [Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/PostCommitWebHooks).
-
-_Contact: broder, gdb_
-
 ## 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).
@@ -273,6 +268,12 @@ Athena documentation these days seems somewhat lacking and/or hard-to-find, whic
 
 _Contact: zhangc, kasittig_
 
+## Zephyr Client Hints
+
+Some time ago I wrote [a spec for zephyr client hints](http://geofft.mit.edu/p/zephyr-client-hints.txt), optional extensions that zephyr clients can easily implement to add nifty stuff like typing indicators and [preventing zwgc from starting more than once per user](http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/206) and such. I got lazy before actually implementing these specs, but I believe they'd be relatively easy extensions to both zwgc and barnowl (in their respective extension languages, even &mdash; no changes needed to core).
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
 ## Your Project Here
 
 SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and