X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/4f2f307a5903b906c3d8c9bb445e17da3ac8e359..ba8768d7e12d8d4a60d823e684502ef24b6a8473:/projects/ideas.mdwn diff --git a/projects/ideas.mdwn b/projects/ideas.mdwn index 6dc21bd..1375376 100644 --- a/projects/ideas.mdwn +++ b/projects/ideas.mdwn @@ -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. +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 @@ -107,19 +109,6 @@ support. If this is the kind of thing that interests you... _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 @@ -175,9 +164,9 @@ haven't committed to the scripts Subversion repository. 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. +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_ +_Contact: pbaranay, fawkes_ ## Your Project Here