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 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... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe