The coding contest would be good, though could also take it a step down and do daily (or every few days, or weekly) programming challenge(s). So would be problems much simpler than the contest.

I feel like the coding section does need some restructuring, as some of the sections seem out of place or just confusing. For instance, the "Perl and Python, Haskell, Ruby" section (description includes Lua too), possibly this should just be renamed to Scripting Language section? And remove Haskell from it, Haskell doesn't seem to get much attention here (as far as on the forum, I know there's some Haskellers in the community though) so could possibly just create a Functional Programming section. Then there's the Web Markup languages section but it also includes PHP, possibly just change it to Web Development? The last thing is for general development discussions and languages not currently mentioned, there doesn't seem to be an appropriate section for those.

So I propose restructuring it so possibly a few key languages or key family of languages that are some what popular get their own section and then general type sections (Scripting, Markup, General Development, etc.). Or making it very language specific, and just having a general (for languages that aren't added yet) and adding other languages later if they're popular. If we also do a coding contest and also include programming challenges it may be good idea to have a section for that?

An Example:

* General Programming/Development (basically stuff that won't fit in the other sections)
* C Family
* Scripting Languages (Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.)
* Shell Scripting
* Functional Languages (Purely functional languages or languages heavily influenced by the functional paradigm)
* Web Development (Web markups, as well as languages associated with Web development)

One problem with the above is if wanting to talk about a language often associated with web development (e.g. Javascript) but the discussion is not in a web context. Possibly could specify the Web Development section would be exclusively for discussions that are in the context of web. So a non related JS discussion (say you're using it as a scripting language in an application) would then go in the Scripting Languages section.

Alternatively:

* General Programming/Development (basically stuff that won't fit in the other sections)
* C Family (though may want to split this up into the individual languages)
* Ruby
* Python
* Haskell
etc.

The latter is cleaner I think, and prevents having multiple sections that could be just as appropriate for the topic (as can be the case with the general example above). Main problem here is it could get very big.

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Some other ideas could be having our own wargames? Or a bot based game, could also be fun (e.g. design a game that is intended to be played by bots and see how well each others bots do).