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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.
 
 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
 ## "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_
 
 
 _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
 ## SIPB PostgreSQL server
 
 A lot of people prefer Postgres to MySQL, so having a community Postgres


@@ -179,6 +168,25 @@ database. One possible platform is the [Exhibit](http://simile-widgets.org/exhib
 
 _Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_
 
 
 _Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_
 

+## Search across every public git repository
+
+The [git](http://www.git-scm.com/) version control system has been
+rapidly gaining in popularity both in the world of free software at
+large as well as at here at SIPB. One of the properties of git is
+that every object, whether it's a specific version of a file or a
+changeset to a project's source code, has a unique identifying hash
+(e.g., "8c5fa44b1a4902ba1f84a71df20bfe4f21867a7c"). Given one of these
+hashes, it should be possible to identify which project it came from
+and what it refers to.
+
+The "easy" way to do this is to create a massive single git repository
+with references to every public git repository we can find, but that
+probably causes performance problems, so you may need to be cleverer
+about how data is stored and expose a different interface. You'll
+also need to figure out a way to find all public git repositories.
+
+_Contact: geofft, nelhage_
+

 ## Your Project Here
 
 SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and
 ## Your Project Here
 
 SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and