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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ along with the person who's suggested the project or a team that would
 be good to contact. Feel free to get in touch if something sounds
 interesting or you want advice getting started.
 
+A [[list from 2008-2009|/doc/project-ideas]] may also have some relevant ideas.
+
 ## "add me to this list" button
 
 If I'm a webmaster for some group with an announcement list, it would be
@@ -107,19 +109,6 @@ support. If this is the kind of thing that interests you...
 
 _Contact: nelhage_
 
-## inotify logger for scripts and Debathena
-
-On both our [web hosting platform](http://scripts.mit.edu/) and Athena
-cluster machines, we have way more software packages installed than we
-suspect people use, but no good way of determining this. There's a Linux
-interface called [inotify](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify) that
-lets you get notifications when another user accesses the filesystem: it
-would be pretty simple to use this to collect aggregate (anonymous)
-statistics of what programs and packages are used frequently or even at
-all.
-
-_Contact: geofft_
-
 ## SIPB PostgreSQL server
 
 A lot of people prefer Postgres to MySQL, so having a community Postgres
@@ -175,9 +164,9 @@ haven't committed to the scripts Subversion repository.
 
 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.
+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.
 
-_Contact: pbaranay_
+_Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_
 
 ## Your Project Here