diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c02860f167ed665432e4d068f44731ee1e870b16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Some of the files that are generated by the setup script don't want to be version controlled.
+# To that end I have added this .gitignore file to ignore the following files and folders
+
+# This is the generated .htaccess
+htdocs/.htaccess
+
+# Generated settings.php file
+settings.php
+
+# Compiled templates_c
+templates_c/
+
+# Password file for the su-api thing
+suapi.inc.php
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diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed6b5606274d9e625e5b85be68364cc4147c3e88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "htdocs/js/ckeditor"]
+	path = htdocs/js/ckeditor
+	url = git://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor-releases.git
diff --git a/htdocs/js/ckeditor b/htdocs/js/ckeditor
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a93cb51eb1fc85a13892706dd61eccfd4c999947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/htdocs/js/ckeditor
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit a93cb51eb1fc85a13892706dd61eccfd4c999947
diff --git a/lib/session.php b/lib/session.php
index cb2ac364821c502c6e990cd1c243f833b36ebdbb..e0cc856bf2eb5788b3c8cf060bb13bddc1c6df7f 100644
--- a/lib/session.php
+++ b/lib/session.php
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ private $datahash='';		// hash of data field
 		}*/
 		// a sure-fire way to check to see if the user has any unread email
 		// the bash script returns 0 for no and 1 for yes, takes one arg, username
-		$this->email = shell_exec("/home/member/imranh/bin/sucsunreadmail $user");
+		$this->email = shell_exec("../plugins/sucsunreadmail $user");
 
 		if (file_exists($info['homedirectory'][0]."/.forward")) {
 			$forward = file($info['homedirectory'][0]."/.forward");
diff --git a/plugins/sucsunreadmail b/plugins/sucsunreadmail
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca3d1f5902b6b3bb113f647b1afb8805730f1654
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/sucsunreadmail
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if finger -m $1 | grep "New mail" &> /dev/null
+	then
+		echo "1"
+	else
+		echo "0"
+fi
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diff --git a/static/Community.txt b/static/Community.txt
index 5de423478ae4cc16f08fd661bf8b2b322dbcbaf6..7058f06cdc5f980b6f044ce45201d8fa4e30f30b 100644
--- a/static/Community.txt
+++ b/static/Community.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Community</h3>
 <dt><a href="Community/Talks">SUCS Lightning Talks</a></dt>
 <dd>A great way to share things you are passionate about with fellow members. We've had 3 Lightning Talks so far in the past 2 years and each of them have been very well received.  Footage of the talks can also be found in this section.</dd>
 <dt><a href="Community/Projects">SUCS Projects</a></dt>
-<dd>SUCS hosts a number of open source coding projects and offers its members Subversion repositories and Trac wiki/ticket trackers to manage their projects. The projects page lists a number of projects which SUCS members are currently working on, and which you can get involved with.</dd>
+<dd>SUCS hosts a number of open source coding projects and offers its members Git & Subversion repositories. To enhance these repositories we also provide Gitlab Projects & the Trac wiki/ticket tracking system to assist in the management of projects. The projects page lists a number of projects which SUCS members are currently working on, and which you can get involved with.</dd>
 <dt>Socials</dt>
 <dd>We regularly meet in JCs every Wednesday at 1PM and most Fridays at 7PM. It's a great chance to get to know everyone and have a chat with people. </dd>
 </dl>
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ Community</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>We have a page on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SwanseaUniversityComputerSociety" title="SUCS">Facebook</a></li>
 <li>Through our <a href="https://twitter.com/SUCSExec">Twitter</a></li>
-</ul>
+</ul>
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diff --git a/templates/projects.tpl b/templates/projects.tpl
index 305f57a546c478b5a7748cd48e59e018e6b86cdb..dd5ee49f749f65ac03a12a797e437c669fac760f 100644
--- a/templates/projects.tpl
+++ b/templates/projects.tpl
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 <h3>Projects currently hosted by SUCS</h3>
+
+<p>SUCS has recently deployed <a href="https://projects.sucs.org/explore">Gitlab</a> with a more expansive list of projects.</p>
+
 <dl>
 {foreach name=projects from=$projects item=project}
 <dt><a href="http://projects.sucs.org/projects/{$project.filename}">{$project.name}</a></dt>
 {if $project.descr}<dd>{$project.descr}{/if}</dd>
 {/foreach}
-</dl>
+</dl>
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