X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/4cbfeec5e73bae9afb4765faa38ab7c346844eb3..5e38bd10ae5f2181502ca2546ae056ee3a5f73af:/projects/ideas.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/projects/ideas.mdwn b/projects/ideas.mdwn index a859aaa..0f895cc 100644 --- a/projects/ideas.mdwn +++ b/projects/ideas.mdwn @@ -158,25 +158,6 @@ database. One possible platform is the [Exhibit](http://simile-widgets.org/exhib _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_ - ## Improve the Setup and UI for new users of Zephyr Currently, it is a pain to get someone else set up using zephyr @@ -187,6 +168,12 @@ 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