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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Haskell-community mailing list >> > Haskell-community@haskell.org >> > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community _______________________________________________ Haskell-community mailing list Haskell-community@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community