[j4nt4b]

An obvious example would be intellectual cross-pollination. This project is likely to get a lot of exposure in the Game of Life community as well as the Computer Science community, increasing the chances that members of either community feel compelled to cross over and contribute in an area that may have previously seemed uninteresting/unpromising/unknown.

[monadgonad]

While that's true for posts like this in general, in this specific case those communities are the same. Conway's Game of Life is a computer science curio.