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@@ -145,12 +145,10 @@ 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
 
@@ -158,7 +156,7 @@ 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_
+_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
@@ -277,6 +278,10 @@ _Contact: zhangc, kasittig_
 
 BarnOwl is a great program, but it's typically most useful when you can SSH to a server somewhere and run it in screen. It would be nice to have some sort of webpage where you could send and view zephyrs. I've written one, but it's not ideal -- in particular, it depends on having a daemon running somewhere to collect and store zephyrs. There's probably a better way, though I have no idea what it is. (Zcommit would be useful for sending; viewing is trickier.) Ideas?
 
+*Note:* There is already a [Webzephyr](http://webzephyr.mit.edu/), but it was
+written before AJAX and other modern niceties. You may wish to talk to jdaniel
+or other webzephyr folks about this.
+
 _Contact: cesium_
 
 ## MITeX
@@ -285,6 +290,12 @@ Online WYSIWYG Latex editor. Features include Google Preview and equation suppor
 
 _Contact: leonidg, jhamrick, mats_a, jgross
 
+## 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 — no changes needed to core).
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
 ## Your Project Here
 
 SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and