_Contact: davidben_
+## Etherpad
+
+[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/).
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
+## RFC pretty-printing
+
+I think every RFC website I know of just puts the entire RFC plain text in a <pre> tag. It should be possible to parse out the headers and footers every "page", make section headings into useful ones, and reflow the non-diagram text in a proportional font, which would make RFCs more readable.
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
+## scripts.mit.edu file upload form
+
+Really, it should not be as hard as it is to make a website where people can upload files too big for e-mail to your locker. Either find a good, simple, PHP or Python or something file upload app, or write a (relatively small) one of your own and a scripts autoinstaller.
+
+_Contact: geofft_
+
+## fakechrooted distros in AFS
+
+Thanks to the deeply disturbing magic of a couple of programs named fakeroot and fakechroot, you can without root privileges enter a "chroot" of an operating system and look at how things work in it. Create some appropriate chroots for popular Linux distros in a locker and appropriate wrapper scripts.
+
+_Contact: geofft, broder_
+
+## Github-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. It would be cool if there was a site - probably running on scripts.mit.edu - that you could point Github's post-receive hook at to get zephyred whenever somebody pushed to Github.
+
+(Bitbucket)[http://www.bitbucket.org/help/ServiceIntegration#post] and (Google Code)[http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/PostCommitWebHooks} also support similar APIs.
+
+_Contact: broder_
+
+## 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).
+* OpenSSH has an option to enable [non-strict acceptor checking](http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh-patches/strict-acceptor) for Kerberos authentication, so you can ssh to, say, scripts.mit.edu and successfully authenticate despite being load-balanced to a machine that thinks its name is, say, old-faithful.mit.edu. (Specifically a non-strict acceptor lets you authenticate to a machine using any credential in its keytab; a strict acceptor will require that you authenticate to the specific key for the machine's name.) Port the non-strict acceptor option to [Cyrus SASL](http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/) so that scripts.mit.edu can pull the same trick for SVN and LDAP and so forth.
+* I often find that [sbuild](http://packages.debian.org/stable/sbuild) installs many of the same packages into the "base" chroot; for instance, a bunch of Debathena packages depend on cdbs and config-package-dev. sbuild should have the ability to take advantage a chroot with these packages preinstalled (so long as all the packages in this chroot still are a subset of the build dependencies), and for extra awesome bonus points, look at a repository and suggest what non-base chroots I should create.
+* [Write a caching NSS module](http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/486) that will play more nicely with Debathena than nscd (the current solution) does. It will probably end up looking like nss_nonlocal.
+
+_Contact: mostly geofft_
+
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