reader beware: brainstorming/scratch area locker core manages Me/ folder, default 8042 starts dashboard! web service providing what connectors/collections/apps exist or are running provides data dirs on installing new services provides local port assignments scan all Apps/Collections/Connectors dirs to make a map is asked to run stuff, returns localhost:port of it running notifies dashboard when anything is created any service started is run in it's source directory and given a data directory as an argument contains me.json file with any details it needs