Some Project Ideas#

• First National Bank of Dad
• Points system: Every hour: On Task, Speaks Nicely, Follows Directions
  • Simple status display for kid (today, this week, totals so far, nice colored grid)
  • Similar display for parent/administrator, with ability to toggle a particular cell to earned, unearned, unknown [, unavailable?]
  • Ability to log free-text why a point was unearned.
• Math Drill 2
• Diaspora cluster generator
  • Clickable image generated with dot (or D3)
  • Ability to add notes for each system
• Haskell: world generator based on the algorithm in the paper "Planet Map Generation by Tetrahedral Subdivision", by Mogensen. The C program he provides on his site (http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Planet/) truncates elevation data at some max, which makes coloring desert world elevations problematic (since they start with a positive elevation bias, and wind up with a lot of max-elevation values))
• Hakyll, source = org-mode or TWiki markup, dest = differential upload to Amazon S3.
• 2-D surface with arbitrary positioning and rotation of arbitrary rectangular pieces of "paper" (with arbitrary text & icons).
• Software idea: length of voting line with reputation of data source
• Project idea: post-it style task board
• JSPWiki improvements
  • new: JSPWiki renderer for org-mode.
  • bug: new pages stay in "not-found/non-existent" mode for a very long time (until session timeout?) after they've been saved. Once they're saved, the link should take users to the newly-created page, not the "new page" (oh, and you can't log in because it's not a public wiki) dialog, and not the "edit page" dialog if you do happen to be logged in and have edit privileges. At least the content isn't lost.
  • Add OpenJML http://www.openjml.org/
• XML tools like http://www.utilities-online.info/
  • Subscription model
    • Users pay for account
    • Some sort of metered access? Need to balance heavy users and casual one -- don't want casuals to starve.
• Family Grocery List PWA for multi-member households
  • FAB: add item
  • Deep links to actions that can be shortcutted
  • Recipe database, w/ability to fix a meal w/known ingredients on hand, or with one or two missing ingredients, or with only one ingredient known to be on hand (i.e., something we'd like to use up). Can print out shopping list for pickup on the way home that evening.
  • Features for roommate/housemate situations?
• Microscope tabletop
  • animate card rotation & movement

Corporate Life#

• "Coffee's Up!" app. Also, "pizza's here!" and "ping-pong table free! (or in-use)". So, needs event status (what/when was the last event for the thing?). Conference room in use. That seems like it might be impinging on some existing enterprise system, like Outlook. This app would be intended to be a lightweight adjunct to the existing system, not a replacement.
• Ad-hoc conference room finder
  • Map of conference rooms indicating present status (free, in-use (and by whom))
  • In-use status status expires (configurable) on the hour or half-hour.
    • Or maybe when declared in-use, user specifies for how long, but app pings user on half-hour or hour whether it's still in use.
  • NOT a reservation system
  • Although... it could be? Need some sort of data-sharing interface w/other services
  • Must check in within 10 (configurable) minutes of start time or conf. rm. is freed
• Workgroup thermostat setting poll -- let co-workers vote on temperature, with notifications and recommendations for setting changes
  • Record of when last adjusted and by how much (from what to what)
  • Seating map?
    • (Optional) Weight by proximity to thermostat?