There was some discussion during the semester about listing and maybe
hosting student projects on the CS lounge site. I volunteered to help
setup Subversion hosting, but haven't gotten around to it.

Laziness aside, I'm not sure what people actually want. There's already
a number of sites that offer project hosting (e.g. Google Code,
Sourceforge, GitHub, etc.). I don't see any point in duplicating these.
For open/public projects, it seems more sensible to just point people to
one of those places. A directory of projects that students are
developing and contributing to might be nice.

On the other hand, I can imagine that it would be handy to just have a
place to stash your personal work, class projects, and minimally-baked
ideas. If people are interested, I think it might actually make sense to
set up:
* Repository hosting
* Access control (make it easy to give your friends and partners access)
* Repository browsing with history
Features I often find useful, but might not make sense here:
* wiki
* ticket/bug/to-do list
* source code search (like http://mxr.mozilla.org/ )

I don't know how much time I'll have for this, but I think it's good to
know what to aim for.

Other people who were/are interested in helping:
* Ed Kohlwey - Mercurial
* Matt McCutchen - Git

Cheers,
-Nikolas

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