From: Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T23:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Drops

> [... social network ...]

I do like the idea, but it's a different spirit from what I'm going  
for. There are tons of developer communities, and tons of source code  
repositories. While I don't think I've seen a social network for  
developers before, I don't really see it kicking off so well unless  
it happens to be language agnostic, which is fine except that it  
would only become that much more difficult to find anything that  
applies to your particular project.

I'm trying to do this as a learning experience, and something that  
hasn't been done before. While I like some social networks, there are  
only so many people can be so active in. A web site like this would  
have to compete with other social networks (with overlapping  
functionality) in order to have anything worth using, but I know I  
can't do that. I have to try something new because of that.

> This might include open commenting systems on the source code, so that
> people can review the code live, things which automatically sense
> similar projects or similar dependencies and things like that, and
> just the general cool stuff that well set up social network could
> provide.

I thought of this, but I don't like the idea of having to go through  
so much extra trouble just to get rigged up for the system. And as  
for automatically sensing similar projects, that's just a larger  
scale version of what I'm trying to do already.

- Jake McArthur