I will bring this up at a few meetups I will be attending through this week. I'm sure this will peak the interest of more than a few people at venture cafe as the bookstore would be a great way to connect talented developers to companies/investors; lately, the lack of finding talent in the Boston area has been a recurring conversation at tech+startup focused meetups
I am interested. I live within walking distance of the store and am an avid tech extraordinaire/hacker who would hate to see it go down. Why not open it up for hackathons and tech meetups in the area? I know there are plenty of tech groups that are constantly looking for space to host their meetups and hackathons.
I came across an israeli company two years ago that did this in php but its possible its home grown and proprietary. There is a reason why php is not the language of choice for nlp. Most nlp applications require performance and speed for common nlp computations. Php is not performant enough for doing any serious nlp. Python is a much better choice for a variety of reasons.