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
_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
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_
+
+## Build a web client providing full control to the user
+
+Create a web browser extension (or possibly a stand-alone browser) that is "web-developer antagonistic". It essentially takes full advantage of the
+immense power of a web client, ignoring the wishes of the web developer and server while letting the user take full control. Every JavaScript event (ideally variable, function, etc.), every rendering decision, every cookie setting, every HTTP request, if the user so desires, etc. is not only made visible but easily changeable. When making a request, every aspect of the
+transaction can be completely fiddled with.
+
+There are several extensions that allow you to do stuff sort of like
+this (Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, Chrome's web developer tools). But they're hard to use and really mostly just debuggers. Our goal here is to build something that goes out of its way to give you complete control via a nice UI.
+
+_Contact: leonidg_
+
## Your Project Here
SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and
sipb-www / wiki.git / blobdiff