There is a discussion going on Lamont Harrington's Blog about the idea of using Sharepoint a platform for the GotDotNet community site. This is an interesting idea, because it could use a lot of the Sharepoint functionality:
”Envision this: Registered GotDotNet community users would get their own "My Site" which would serve as their own personal portal to store and share personal content with other users. GotDotNet workspaces would be replaced with Windows SharePoint Services team sites/document workspaces which would promote a more collaborative environment centered around the numerous open-source projects (both new and old) that are currently hosted by GDN. The new portal would provide a more elaborate and detailed search mechanism built on SharePoint search, therefore searching for that source code artifact would be made much easier and more efficient. Because of SharePoint Portal Server's built-in functionality for creating areas for grouping related content/sites/workspaces and audiences for content targeting, the user's experience on GDN would be radically improved.
Architecturally, it will present a challenge to come up with the proper application architecture to determine the overall portal structure (parent vs child portals), facilitate the proliferation of WSS sites, and provide adequate data storage for infinite amount of data that would be consumed. However, I think that SharePoint Portal Server would be an ideal solution to the GDN woes.”
Follow this discussion on Lamont Harrington's Blog