Freshman Project Ideas
Put project ideas for new people here.
This list isn't exclusive! If you're interested in the club and have a cool idea, suggest it at a meeting!
Contrib Services
- Online splitting of apache logs into user-accessible ones to help people debug CGI scripts
- tylerni7
Help test & roll out orgwikis
Determine what services could benefit and work with load balancing (see Other Informative Documentation/Setting Up LVS)
Create a service aiding the development of CMU student programming projects (like SourceForge)
- Provide a mailing list service for organization bboards
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
- Find cool games and demos for the Amiga
- Find a nice Atari (800?) or other ancient stuff for sale online (e.g., ebay)
- [Atari 800 found and bought]
- RS 6000 (not really retro...)
Leadership & Bureaucracy
- Rewrite constitution (approach with caution)
- Lead a recruiting campaign
Infrastructure
- Write fs/volume "out of space" monitor that whines at gripe loudly
- Make service monitor (Nagios) check more things
- Help with transition from older machines to virtualization on faster machines
- Finish munin deployment
- fix Xen munin plugins
- RT-style incident tracker system
Researchy Projects
Do something cool with BGP feed (see 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
- Student supercomputer built of computrons
- we have progressed a bit with this, but could use some work
Misc
- Setup some kind of slash thing for members so we don't have to spam members@club all the time