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This friday is the beginning of PyCamp, four days of python hacking without
distraction or pause. And I want to code a lot. My main target is features
for `Nikola <http://getnikola.com>`_ my static blog generator.

If you are attending PyCamp (or even if you are not), you are welcome 
to join me in implementing these in a marathon of kickass coding 
starting this friday and lasting all weekend.

I have a few ideas in my head, but I want *more*. These are the 
ones I have, please add more in the comments if you have any:

Code Gallery 
    Like image galleries but for code. Put code in a folder and it will be
    beautifully displayed. With the addition of a "listings" docutils 
    directive, it will make showing code in detail and in context easy
    and powerful, and make Nikola more attractive to programmer-bloggers.

Gallery Polishing
    Image galleries are implemented and work, but they could use a lot
    of polish. From making them more network-efficient, to image RSS
    feeds, recursive galleries, gallery metadata, image texts, and 
    much more.

File Pipelines
    Want to minimize your CSS? Tidy your HTML? pngcrush your images?
    apply HTML transformations? Other things I can't imagine?

    File pipelines would bring the power of the unix shell to a site
    generator, letting you connect lego-like filters, some provided,
    some from the community, into a powerful machinery.

Online Editing (Alva)
    While static site generators have lots of benefits, they have
    one significant downside: you edit the files in your own 
    device. A online editor for Nikola lets you edit them
    through a web interface for blogging-from-aywhere goodness.

Nikola Hosting (Shoreham)
    Why not create a service where the user feeds posts to a server
    and then the server publishes them? The feeding can be via
    a DVCS, or a file sync service, or via online editors, and
    the output is published automatically or at the push of
    a button.

Drafts
    I don't do drafts. I type and that's it. But others prefer 
    more cautious and sane approaches. So, how should drafts work?
    While the feature may be easy to implement, it's a good
    beginner programmer's task, where you have to think more about
    what you want to achieve and providing a good user experience
    than about just banging code.

So, is there something you saw in another static blog generator 
and Nikola lacks? Any cool ideas and want a friendly codebase to
hack them on? Do you have any crazy ideas noone would touch
with a ten-foot-pole but you think would be awesome to have?

Well, now's a good time to talk about it!