I am currently working on a scriptable alerting/monitoring application which I will try to finish (be)for(e) the contest. I'm writing this to monitor servers, but you could use if to alert or monitor about anything, the weather, a meeting, etc,...
All objects (alerts, sensors, GUI objects,...) will be scriptable in python.
A (very early) screenshot below,... not too much to be seen on there, most stuff I worked on sofar is backend:
