• Write a SCADS client app in RoR—a clone of eBay, or some other interesting big-data app  (Lead: Amber or Allen)
  • Get Rails environment running using JRuby interpreter and ability to call existing SCADS client library functions, so RoR apps can run in-process with SCADS (Lead: Marcelo?)
  • Devise a Ruby gem that encapsulates SCADS functionality to wrap the above (Lead: Brandon)
  • Write a crawler for Twitter data and metadata; collect a bunch of it, then create some MapReduce jobs to find statistics like density of friendships, things about structure of followers graph, etc., as well as to have tweet data with which to populate SCADr database (Lead: Aaron or Tim)