Re: Idea: Grails based open source project

> I think Ben Hammersley built a "Ideas Repository" ages ago... .But what
> has happened to it I do not know....
>
> Some ideas
>
> 1) How about a voting system for America.... Next year is the American
> election. The results effects us all, but we have no votes. How about a
> system that would record all our votes....
>
> 2) A system that allowed children in the developed world to make friends
> with children in the developing world. It would be done school by school
> so that there would be some form of security.... With the advent of One
> Lap Top Child it could become big... If anybody was interested I could
> try to get the endorsement of AfrIspa (The African ISP Association) that
> I do some work with and for.
>
> 3) A system that allowed towns/villages to communicate with each other.
> Again developed /developing world. Again I could ask AfrIspa for some
> kind of endorsement.
>
> 4) A system that scanned some of the government Western Travel Advisory
> sites (British Foreign Office, US State Department, Australian
> Department of Foreign Affairs), and warned you if an area became
> dangerous to travel in. It could alert you via twitter if something
> happened.
>
> 5) A system that scanned some of the more respectable news sites for
> Breaking News. Unlike google news that shows you everything. This site
> only shows you Breaking News and could alert you via twitter ...
>
> 6) A cms every framework needs its own CMS....
>
> Just some ideas for starters... What do people think? All these ideas
> need fleshing out... What would give grails the most PR.... One of the
> reasons for the Africa bent is that software for Africa gets newspaper
> inches....
>
> James
>
>
>
> On 6/4/07, *Raffaele Castagno* <raffaele.castagno@...
> <mailto:raffaele.castagno@...>> wrote:
>
>     I don't think that a clone of such a successful project would be so
>     interesting...
>     It would be better imho to think about something new.
>     I've proposed some time ago the idea of an "Ideas Repository", but
>     daytime job, various commitments and my not so developed skill in
>     software design concurred in leaving this "project" at the status of
>     "idea".
>
>     Anyway, the proposal is still valid, if someone would like to help in
>     some way...
>
>     Raffaele
>
>     Dmitriy Kopylenko wrote:
>      > 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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