Neddick

Don't you think that something like a private HN for the Enterprise could solve this problem (actually I'm thinking of a little bit Quora/HN solution)? Yep. In fact, I'm actively working on building something like that. Although I use Reddit as a comparison more than HN, and the scope goes further than a Reddit/HN clone, that's a big part of it. If you're interested in looking at what I'm doing, it's all open source. See: (project site): http://code.google.com/p/neddick (Github repo): http://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick (demo site): http://spdemo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick1/ (warning: the demo site can be abysmally slow at times, but I'm not promoting this real heavily yet, so I haven't put a lot of effort into make the demo real stable and performant.) 2. karma points (reward for being active and a way to find out what is more interesting

What kind of person are you looking for? Curious, motivated, and has initiative. Not scared to take on things that are "too big." Smart, confident, but not too arrogant. What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project? There's all sorts of stuff my project(s) could use help with. Simple stuff like going through GSP (Groovy Server Pages) pages and replacing instances of hard-coded URL strings with the appropriate tags that generate that stuff, and more involved stuff like UI improvements; to hard-core backend stuff involving experimental / research-oriented machine-learning stuff. Is there anything simple you would like people to help with? Sure,there's always low hanging fruit that is good for people just getting involved in a project. If you want to take a look at my project, see: http://code.google.com/p/n

The most straightforward way is to start with some default value for "hotness" and then decay the hotness by time (a logarithmic basis is popular for this), and increase hotness based on activity (votes, comments, etc.) For a real-world example (albeit one from code that's not much beyond "prototype" status) feel free to look at what we do in Neddick: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick/blob/master/grails-app/se... look at the calculateScore() and calculateHotness() methods in particular. What we do there is basically just use 0 as the default, count each upvote as +1 to score and each downvote as -1 to score, then use the score as the hotness, before decaying by age. It's simple and not optimized at all, but it gives the general effect we're looking for.

Alternatively, are there any open-source Stackoverflow/HN look-alikes that I can download and modify for my needs? There are multiple open-source clones of StackOverflow. One well-known and popular one is OSQA[1]. Additionally, the Reddit source-code is open[2] (although their license is one of the "weird" ones by my standard), so that's an option. Also, I'm working on a project that is very reddit-like in a lot of ways, including the ability to vote things up/down, rank by votes, add comments, etc. It's still pretty alpha, but if you want to take a look see the source[3] and/or the demo site[4]. [1]: http://www.osqa.net/ [2]: http://code.reddit.com/ [3]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick [4]: http://spdemo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick1 If you're interested in the Neddick stuff at all, feel free to shoot me an email. It's under active de

Finish techpreview2 of Neddick (https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick) Finish techpreview1 of Quoddy (https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy) Finish techpreview1 of Heceta (https://github.com/fogbeam/Heceta) Get out of the office (well, my apartment) and get in front of some potential customers and start soliciting feedback. Use Steve Blank's Customer Development Methodology. Spend some serious time researching the competition in this space; figure out how my vision fits in with Microsoft Sharepoint... am I building a Sharepoint complement or a Sharepoint killer (so to speak)? Decide if there's going to be a SaaS model for this stuff, and - if there is - what goes into it, and start exploring building out the SaaS version (probably on Amazon's infrastructure, but we'll see.) Depending on the results of some of the above goals: Maybe find a co-f