Re: [Haskell-cafe] Web development work

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 wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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 On 16/09/2010 08:52 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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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.

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(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.