[Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?

[Chris Smith]

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 <gershomb at 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 <cdsmith at 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 <
> simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good idea.   “k12” is rather USA specific. What about
> education at haskell.org?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Haskell-community <haskell-community-bounces at haskell.org> On
> Behalf Of Chris Smith
> >> Sent: 22 October 2018 15:32
> >> To: Haskell-community <haskell-community at 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, "k12 at 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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