The Everything Development Company did set up a site called javajunkies.org, using the same Everything software that the Monastery uses. However, it seems that there was little take-up (correct me if I'm wrong), and the people subscribing were Perl monks, or found out about the site through Perlmonks.

At the time of writing this, javajunkies seems to be off the air.

It seems that the Perl community had much in the way of untapped momentum when this site first opened - people could easily see the need for it. There was also the novelty factor: nobody had run a technical Q&A discussion forum with voting before (slashdot is journalistic, and its primary function is not Q&A).

I would welcome anybody setting up a monastery based on some technical field I had an interest in, but it is not that easy to be successful.

Update: It seems that my problems getting to Java junkies were with my ISP. I have successfully been able to connect since.

In reply to Re: Consideration of the Monk Trademark by rinceWind
in thread Consideration of the Monk Trademark by enigmae

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