In theory, I think there would be a lot of overlap. However, I still think a separate site is worthwhile because:
* We can focus exclusively on Haskell. * We can make the site streamlined for this specific purpose, as opposed to just a small corner of another website. * We'll probably want to add a bunch of other features in the future. A simple example would be polls. * The profiles can be much more rigorous, including Hackage contributions, social network, etc. * And if my other Haskell unified login takes off, this would be a great feature of it. That said, I don't intend to reinvent the wheel for its own sake or split the community. If there was lack-luster interest in my idea and people were content with CUFP, I wouldn't bother. It seems, however, that there is general interest in a new site. Michael On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Don Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > michael: >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Andrew Coppin >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 16/09/2010 08:52 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: >> >> >> >> future it would be beneficial to the community to have this >> >> information centralized on a website. I think it would be useful to >> >> have some basic skills and experience information, including system >> >> administration abilities. >> > >> > [..] >> > >> > (And yes, given the frequency with which this gets asked, we should >> > probably >> > write this info down somewhere!) >> > >> >> OK, I'll bite on this one. I just registered the domain name >> haskellers.com (I was surprised it was available). So let me ask the >> community what information they would want out there. Here's the ideas >> I had: >> >> * Users can create their own profiles. Profiles have the following >> information: >> * Basic name, contact, website, photo, etc. >> * Brief bio >> * Skills. We'll probably have a list of skills to choose from. >> * Notable projects worked on, with strong focus on Hackage packages. >> * Some kind of "web of trust" feature, where users can confirm that >> someone else's profile is accurate. Open to suggestions on this. >> * A public message board for posting job information. I think this >> would not require login to post, but we would have spam protection >> (recaptcha). >> >> And then of course the basic what is Haskell, links to haskell.org, >> etc. I'll probably be able to get started on this early next week. >> > > Does http://cufp.org/jobs solve the same problem? user profiles/job > listings etc. > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
