Ok, education@ should now be created, and chris should be list admin.
Feel free to reach out to me if there are any issues.

Cheers,
Gershom
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 8:00 PM Chris Smith <cdsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>> >
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