-Stuff to try doing at the hackathon on Saturday, October 25th.
+Here are ideas you can try to get started on a SIPB project. Some of
+these are mature projects with active new development a new
+contributor can help out with, others are only grand plans that need
+someone to take them on as their own.
-Most of these will also be good things to try before or for some time
-after the hackathon. Talk to the people identified for each project
-to see how you can help.
+Talk to the people identified for each project to see how you can
+help, or ask the SIPB Chair (`price`) or Vice-Chair (`nelhage`). The
+descriptions here are usually accurate but the projects are constantly
+changing.
+
+If you have a project and want people to help, go ahead and add it.
+
+ * 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
+ Mailman. Moira has much better integration with MIT
+ infrastructure, but doesn't support spam-filtering or interfaces
+ for non-MIT users. Mailman is the opposite. Jeff Schiller has
+ expressed some willingness to deploy patches to make Mailman
+ integrate better with MIT's infrastructure, if someone else were
+ to write them.
+ * 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
+ [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
-If you have a project and want people to help, add it.
* `scripts.mit.edu` -- Talk to `geofft` or `quentin`
* Find some software we don't have an autoinstaller for, and write an
works
* Write a blog aggregator, something like planet.debian.org, so that scripts
blog users can publish their entries on certain topics to an MIT-wide blog
- * install `old-faithful`; see [http://scripts/trac/browser/server/doc/install-howto `server/doc/install-howto`] for the steps
* XVM - talk to `price` or `broder`
- * (done) make `validation.py` available on remote
* validate more operations at remote rather than web
* expose more operations over remctl in addition to web
* put our hosts in Moira
* ajaxify / javascriptify the website
- * get SPNEGO working, i.e. accept Kerberos auth on the website
* Give the website a stylistic facelift.
* voip-scripts - talk to `geofft`
* Cull old Ask SIPB columns into documentation.
* Cull documentation into new Ask SIPB columns.
- * Debathena - talk to `broder` or `geofft`
- * a livecd would be awesome; there are tools these days to make this tractable
-
* Archiver - talk to `nelhage`
We want to build a mail archiving system for Moira lists. We're
planning to store mail into AFS, and expose archives via AFS, IMAP,
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