Added MITeX to project ideas

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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
@@ -46,8 +48,8 @@ out each update to a ticket with a generic subject line, so it doesn't
 easily indicate whether the bug was resolved or someone just commented
 on it. It also doesn't know how to receive e-mail, so we can't reply to
 the e-mails it generates and have our comments go back into the bug
-tracker, and we can't (make bugs@mit.edu create Trac
-tickets)[http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/216]. There are one or two
+tracker, and we can't [make bugs@mit.edu create Trac
+tickets](http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/216). There are one or two
 alleged plugins to do this, but they create a new ticket on every
 e-mail, rather than doing something intelligent with replies; a better
 plugin in both directions would be extremely helpful.
@@ -97,19 +99,6 @@ 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
@@ -161,6 +150,30 @@ 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.
 
+## 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.
+
+_Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_
+
+## Improve the Setup and UI for new users of Zephyr
+
+Currently, it is a pain to get someone else set up using zephyr
+within screen on Linerva with automatically-renewing tickets.
+We should write scripts to set them up so that that all they
+have to do is enter a command or click an icon, type their kerberos
+password, and then know how to use Barnowl.
+
+_Contact: afarrell_
+
+## MITeX
+
+Not a fully formed thought, yet, but the basic idea is to have a web app that lets users create a document, and then it texs the document nicely for them, based on some template that they've selected, and gives them a PDF.  They should have the ability to edit the source or just use the WYSIWYG editor.
+
+_Contact: jhamrick_
+
 ## Your Project Here
 
 SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and