Project Ideas
We're always coming up with various ideas that the club needs people to work on if they're ever to become reality.
2011 Project Ideas
- Create a second Squeeze Shell machine, edit MOTD, Change unix.club dns
- UPS Battery Pack Rebuild
- Building dom0s - If we can find a sane way to do this
- Sorting RAM
- Rear Machine Labels
- Serial Dongles
2010 Project Ideas
Social Activities
- Lead/organize topical tech talks
- Organize modern/retro cluster/LAN-party gaming events
- Do more with the club facebook group
Make club website (http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu) live/interactive (news postings/comments/forum/facebook integration/RSS-something/whatever)
Contrib Services
Help finish implementing & testing services for clubs
- org websites
- org SQL dbs
- org wikis
- Online splitting of apache logs into user-accessible ones to help people debug CGI scripts
- tylerni7 has been working on this
Create a service aiding the development of CMU student programming projects (like SourceForge)
- Provide a mailing list service for organization bboards (for alums)
Artsy/Design Work
Redo club (http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu) and contrib (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu) websites
Design/find cool mediawiki skin/theme for retroarchive wiki (http://retroarchive.club.cc.cmu.edu/wiki)
- Design another / more colorful logo
- Design a T-shirt!
- Help us design flashy posters
Electronics/Retro-computing
Contribute to retroarchive wiki (http://retroarchive.club.cc.cmu.edu/wiki)
- Help get an overall structure of pages completed
- Add info you know
- Learn about bizarre platforms of yore and document your findings
- Talk to mdille3 about Atari/Amiga/Apple hardware and video hackery
Get one of the old scary systems in the machine room up & running
- HP 9000/300
- SGI Indy
- IBM RS6000
- Do something cool with old suns?
Infrastructure
- Get debian installed on more idle machines
- Dom0 VM hosts
- DomU VM guests
- Migrate more service VMs to lenny (build new lenny VM, move service daemons configs over)
- Pick and setup a helpdesk ticket/request incident tracker system for gripe
- Make VM tracking system (what-xen) more useful
- Make sure it's collecting data for all machines
- Collect more data on machine specs (CPUs, RAM, etc.)
- Make service monitor (Nagios) check more things
- Eg: fs/volume "out of space" monitor for important AFS volumes
Finish munin (machine resource usage tracking & aggregation) deployment
- fix Xen munin plugins
- Finish setting up Dell management network
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
- Various security related projects through Cylab