Re: Idea: Grails based open source project

Dmitry,

Just something to think about:
Digg (or your favorite web 2.0 site) isn't so much a piece of software
as a community wrapped around a database.  To me, cloning reproduces the
piece of the puzzle with the least value.  How about moving a step up
the chain and creating an entirely new piece of software that uses
Digg's API (or pligg/rigg/figg) to do something interesting with the
content that's already there.  That way you get both a showcase for
Grails and more total value for the community.

Best of luck!

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitriy Kopylenko [mailto:dmitriy.kopylenko@...]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 1:20 PM
To: grails_user
Subject: [grails-user] Idea: Grails based open source project

Hello Grails community. I just had an idea. How about an open source
Grails project to create a Digg clone? I think it would be cool to
create an open source version of one of the most popular concepts of web
2.0 era and it would serve as a great "showcase" for Grails, and last
but not least it should be fun :-)

I'm aware of a similar effort in PHP: http://www.pligg.com/ but it's
more of a CMS than simply a digg clone.

What do you guys/gals think?

Cheers,
Dmitriy.


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