The main thing about reddit is the community, not the underlying code, and while I'm sure a SoC project could do something with the code, I don't see how you could build such a community. And if you did build a big community, then I think it would spiral out of control with only a summers work to do it.
One related idea that might be more useful is a Content Management System on top of happstack. Most other languages have these kind of things, and you could certain give features to your CMS that makes it a reddit-a-like with certain configurations, without loosing the CMS bits for everyone else. You could then as an example host a haskell-redit-a-like, but it wouldn't be the main focus. Thanks Neil On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:50 PM, fallintothis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm planning on applying for the Google Summer of Code and the more I > think about it, the more excited I am over a Haskell reddit-alike[1]. > I'm interested in web programming, Haskell, and reddit (being an > addict for some years now). There's plenty of work to be done on such > a project, there are existing code bases to help along with ideas, and > it doesn't require the deepest knowledge of Haskell or, say, GHC's > guts (not that I don't find those interesting, I'm just no expert). > The hang-up I see is that there's not too much of an immediate > community benefit if reddit already exists (which, I have on good > authority, it does), other than in the interest of eating (or > customizing) your own dog food. Any members of the Haskell community > (more involved than I am) care to comment? Would the project be > useful or otherwise good as a Summer of Code idea? > > If people don't get too sick of my pestering, I'm also considering > opening it up as a ticket on the trac to see if it gets feedback > there. > > Thanks! > > [1] > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7u48x/a_simple_redditlike_happsbased_proposal_voting/ > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
