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- IMPORTANT: Set up an announcements mailing lists for e.g. new releases of software, new iLabs, etc. This was suggested in China, but would be broadly useful. See bullet point below for other mailing lists.
- Move to more popular free software platforms
- C++/Java or other commonly known programming languages
- Add support for lower-cost platforms (e.g. Apache+JSP+PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Open up development process
- Publically readable CVS tree
- Public mailing list archives (with de-spammed e-mail addresses)
- Make it fast, easy and light-weight to develop new lab servers
Piotr Mitros has a prototype client with all of these improvements hacked in, although rather crudely. In particular, the way that the client can do math in my version is not vectorized (the equation is parsed once per datapoint, rather than once), so it is rather slow. The code for open being an alias for I=0 is not implemented.