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		<outline created="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:03:14 GMT" ctSaves="8" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="591" text="4 more free ideas for your next hackathon" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2010/10/08/4MoreFreeProjectIdeasForYo.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.39" versionServer="0.38" whenLastSave="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:17:36 GMT">
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:51:37 GMT" pgfnum="2586" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2010/10/08/espresso.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named espresso.jpg&quot;&gt;This follows on the earlier &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2010/10/08/ideasForAnAcademicHackatho.html&quot;&gt;7 free project ideas&lt;/a&gt; piece, posted earlier today."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:52:13 GMT" pgfnum="2587" text="8. I love Dropbox, but it's going to go down someday, and I don't know how to prepare for that. It's also a huge red bull's eye for hackers. It's wonderful, but like all good things, there comes a time when it must decentralize. Preparing for that day, we're going to need an &lt;b&gt;open source Dropbox clone&lt;/b&gt;. It's a lot to do in a 24-hour hackathon, but you could get started, and possibly make something that's useful. It would be worth it just to find out what the issues are in implementing a multi-user file synchronizer. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:54:39 GMT" pgfnum="2588" text="9. Following on #8, we still haven't got &lt;b&gt;drop-dead simple&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;static hosting&lt;/b&gt;. But we're getting there, with Dropbox. I'd like to have a folder named Apache, and inside it are folders with the names of domains that I've mapped to a magic IP address. When a request comes in for that host, look in my Apache folder, if you find a match, serve the file from there. Yes, Dropbox already has a Public folder. That's why this can't be a commercial offering, Dropbox would squash it immediately. But it would be a killer add-on for an open source Dropbox clone. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:57:27 GMT" pgfnum="2589" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://legacystatic1.userland.com/snImages/marcInTrieste.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2010/10/08/marquisDeTrieste.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;109&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named marquisDeTrieste.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;10. NYU is a great university, and there's a lot going on here, but no best place to go to find out what. Wouldn't it be great if every &lt;b&gt;university&lt;/b&gt; had a fantastic &lt;b&gt;news site&lt;/b&gt;, with a small number of feeds to go with it. Start with your campus and work out from there. Give us a great news site. I know it's not going to blow anyone away, but sometimes tech projects are just useful. And boring. ;-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:59:08 GMT" pgfnum="2590" text="11. In the 1990's we used an web server called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbs.ingedigit.com.ve/Teach/Teaching/manuscript/0800-machttp.html&quot;&gt;MacHTTP&lt;/a&gt;. It was configured with menus, dialogs, pop-ups. Almost anyone could figure it out. Fast-forward to today and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.machttp.org/&quot;&gt;MacHTTP&lt;/a&gt; is gone and we configure our web server with a weak, cryptic, confusing, ugly config file format. Come on, let's get our shit together and catch up to where were 15 years ago. Start a simple open source &lt;b&gt;graphic user interface for Apache&lt;/b&gt;. "></outline>
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