Today marks the start of hacking on the new VT web application. IcedTea6 and Tomcat are now available on VT, along with a wiki. I’ve also asked support to set up a vtdevel@ alias for us so I can keep track of who is using and abusing VT. The code for the web application will be hosted in VT’s mercurial repositories as usual.

Some planned features:

  • Generate some of the really dumb ™ VT web pages, like the people and project lists.
  • Generate publications lists from the publications database via George’s corporate author hack.
  • Handle seminar announcements
  • Monitor lab resources

Feedback welcomed.

Also a quick reminder to all that Google Summer of Code 2008 applications now close on the 7th of April. Hopefully we will have some successful students from UniShef this year.