Great, thanks. Had never heard of Haskell before your proxy project or redis.

I do hang out on irc but normally #p2pool and #p2pool-vtc.
Edit: Here's a nice summary:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7888880/what-is-redis-and-what-do-i-use-it-forAs a first glance it seems to remind me of the Amazon SQS / SNS services I use on my TRC pool.
For anyone else following along, you run "cabal run server" inside the proxypool folder.