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

[Gershom B]

Sorry for the delay - sysadmim turnover. I’ll handle it tomorrow.

-g

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 8:00 PM Chris Smith <cdsmith at 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 <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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