X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/537314853f3a4cfc77e68bc74eddcd6921bb5a7e..5e38bd10ae5f2181502ca2546ae056ee3a5f73af:/projects/ideas.mdwn diff --git a/projects/ideas.mdwn b/projects/ideas.mdwn index 03c51d7..0f895cc 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 @@ -76,16 +78,6 @@ This would be immensely more useful as an iPhone application. _Contact: ccpost_ -## Safari plugin for setting identity preferences - -Safari's handling of client-side certificate authentication [changed around OS X 10.5.3](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1679), such that Safari won't present (and won't prompt you to present) a client-side certificate if certs are only optional. Unfortunately, most sites around MIT only optionally accept certs, in spite of the fact that they'll error out if you don't provide one. - -You can override this unfortunate behavior with "Identity Preferences", and IS&T's answer for this is [CertAid](http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/certaid/10x), which simply seeds the Keychain with a pre-defined list of websites for which Safari should present your cert. This isn't a great solution for, e.g., scripts.mit.edu, which has thousands of sites - far too many to give to IS&T to include in CertAid. If that wasn't irritating enough, Identity Preferences don't take affect until you restart your browser. - -A better solution would be a plugin for Safari that intercepted 401 errors sent over SSL, prompted you to set an Identity Preference, and then attempted to reload the page with the new identity preference set. - -_Contact: broder_ - ## Snapshotted virtual machines for all popular Linux distributions A common need for people writing Linux software is to check that their @@ -166,6 +158,22 @@ database. One possible platform is the [Exhibit](http://simile-widgets.org/exhib _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_ + ## Your Project Here SIPB can help you out in terms of both computing resources and