DearIdea.net

This document proposes DearIdea.net, an open source collaboration platform that uses natural language processing and user tags to identify shared needs or resources between community projects. The platform would allow projects to be submitted with tags and analyzed to determine similarities through weighted scoring of user and machine-applied tags. Challenges include inexperience, determining feasibility, and maintaining interest, but presenting the idea at BarCampNYC could help address feasibility while using existing tools could reduce programming requirements. Currently, the domain exists without content and the author seeks advice and criticism to further develop the idea.