Any news on this? Would love to help any way I can, but I am not sure what to do next.
Thanks, Chris On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:12 PM Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds good. Ccing Sandy, who has volunteered to start helping with > mail stuff. Sandy -- do you need any further details in setting this > up, or do you think it should be straightforward? > > -g > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:18 AM Chris Smith <cdsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Good point, Simon. education@ sounds like a good choice, with the > understanding that we mean education for the general population, not > classes in type theory or category theory! > > > > Is this a possibility? Anything else I can do to move this forward? > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:32 AM Simon Peyton Jones < > simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> > >> Good idea. “k12” is rather USA specific. What about > educat...@haskell.org? > >> > >> > >> > >> Simon > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Haskell-community <haskell-community-boun...@haskell.org> On > Behalf Of Chris Smith > >> Sent: 22 October 2018 15:32 > >> To: Haskell-community <haskell-community@haskell.org> > >> Subject: [Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list? > >> > >> > >> > >> Hey, > >> > >> > >> > >> Is there a process to request a new mailing list on the haskell.org > domain? > >> > >> > >> > >> Here's my use case. About 25 Haskell programmers met at ICFP to > discuss uses of Haskell in K-12 education (for non-US readers, that means > before university). I'm also in touch with another half-dozen people who > either have done, or are doing, something pre-university with Haskell, but > could not be at ICFP. The main result of our conversation was that we > wanted a common place to discuss, report on our experiences, look for > productive collaborations and common threads, etc. There are already a few > project-specific places, e.g. the codeworld-discuss mailing list for my own > project, but we were explicitly looking for something general-purpose and > universal. It would be great if this could be, say, "k...@haskell.org" or > something like that. > >> > >> > >> > >> I'm pretty open in terms of how we'd administer the list. I'm willing > to do the work of handling obvious spam bots and things like that. If > there's a feeling we'd need something more than that, then let's have that > discussion. We explicitly don't want a strict topicality enforcement, > though. For example, several people who attended the dinner at ICFP were > also interested in functional programming for non-majors at the university > level, or were using Elm and other Haskell-like languages - even a few > people from the Racket community. I'd hope to rely on the name of the > mailing list to keep things a bit focused, but not really police it at all. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Chris Smith > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-community mailing list > > Haskell-community@haskell.org > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community >
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