Freshman Project Ideas
Put project ideas for new people here.
Contrib Services
- Make awstats work again
- Online splitting of apache logs into user-accessible ones
Help test & roll out orgwikis
Tartans Wiki
- (See design work)
- Help maintain mediawiki patches
- Join moderating board
- Volunteer to be a moderator
- Add content
Design Work
- Make club website look nicer, use CSS
- Take up maintaining tartanswiki skin
- Design another / more colorful logo
- Design a T-shirt!
- Help us design flashy posters
Retro-computing
- Get the HP 9000/300 running
- Get the SGI Indy running
Get the AT&T 3B2 running
- Do something interesting with one or two of the old Suns
Leadership & Bureaucracy
- Rewrite constitution
- Help figure out how to get more people involved
Infrastructure
- Write crontab script to initiate digests for mailing lists
- Write fs/volume "out of space" monitor that whines at gripe loudly
Researchy Projects
- Do something cool with BGP feed
- e.g. a daily net-i1-transfer-limited Tor node
- Network-based RAID (RAID on Linux netblock or DST system) for super high availability
Misc
- Setup an OpenID service on www.{contrib,club}
Create a service aiding the development of CMU student programming projects (like SourceForge)
- Provide a mailing list service for organization bboards