#ECC Goals and Ambitions

##Launch Dates

• Exeter Craigslist launches BEFORE CHRISTMAS BREAK
• 163 launches BY THE FIRST 2014 ECC MEETING
• Phone Calendar launches BY THE END OF CHRISTMAS BREAK

##Ideas ####Projects

• An Exeter craigslist!
• A better Exeter Connect
• Implement auto-correct and auto-complete; compression of English text as a corollary problem.
• Easily-deployable (out-of-the-box) HMMT-style guts round scoreboard, with a really solid UI.
• Something that can get Exeter connect data without Exeter connect itself
• Implement blog recommendations; generate an aggregate stream of news and things you would (statistically) like.
• Set up a server to run AI competitions.
• Go to AI competitions.
• Web based RPG with programming challenges (like hacker.org but cooler!)
• Autonomous quadcopter
• Virtual bitcoin exchange (with API to accomodate trading bots)
• Write 2D games in Lua (http://love2d.org)
• Possible Google summer of code projects (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012)

####Workshops

• C/C++
• Embedded systems
• Hacking
• OpenGL
• App development for Iphone and Android
• Data visualization (for example, at http://d3js.org)

##Thoughts Next year we must recruit and retain more people at Club Night in order to make use of the server. In order to do that, we must start to do actual projects. This is Ben, Hey guys, I'm just seeing how the hell this works