X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/52a405b79f75cf7291b3fe0a19d620ade4d23b45..ecf9139555b1bc863a8b29c312a598fbd89a942c:/hackathons/great-hacksby/projects.mdwn diff --git a/hackathons/great-hacksby/projects.mdwn b/hackathons/great-hacksby/projects.mdwn index 23cb10b..fce883d 100644 --- a/hackathons/great-hacksby/projects.mdwn +++ b/hackathons/great-hacksby/projects.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +There are a lot of projects: Scripts, Barnowl, Straversity, smiopp and cyclist all have different things to work on. Skim through, see what catches your fancy. + [Scripts](http://scripts.mit.edu) ================================= talk to: @@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client used by many MIT students. Work you do here - **Facebook direct message support**. We recently landed Facebook support in the trunk, but it only supports messaging on walls. Add support for direct messages. -- **GMail new message support**. Now you can obsess over your new emails in realtmie! Add support for GMail's notification API: http://code.google.com/apis/talk/jep_extensions/gmail.html (see our existing XMPP bindings.) +- **GMail new message support**. Now you can obsess over your new emails in realtime! Add support for GMail's notification API: http://code.google.com/apis/talk/jep_extensions/gmail.html (see our existing XMPP bindings.) - **Setup [gerrit](http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/)**. We've been talking about moving from github to gerrit, which seems to have a better code review model, but we haven't had the chance nor time to set one up. @@ -70,6 +72,14 @@ Central Hub for a variety of MIT websites, much more comprehensive than MIT's ma To get involved, you should know HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS. You'll also want to know a backend language for more, complex, and easier integration. (That will make sense when I talk about it.) Should be very simple to think of something innovative and how to implement it quickly. +Need to work on: +-Best way to handle login for the site (eventually ability to recognize .edu address for different things, such as Facebook networks) +-Build an online bookmarking system where people can access saved links online and access them in self managed folders in a simple manner. +-Set up search feature for the site +-Have a way for students to add sites and make their own folders for those sites and folders within folders. +-Folders that are expanding instead of the radio buttons +-Adding a hover over description of all the links + smiopp