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

[Chris Smith]

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>
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> Good idea.   “k12” is rather USA specific. What about
> education at haskell.org?
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> Simon
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> *Subject:* [Haskell-community] Creating a new @haskell.org mailing list?
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> Hey,
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> Is there a process to request a new mailing list on the haskell.org
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhaskell.org&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7Cb44e74be5c734a964cd608d6382b25a1%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636758155306014274&sdata=iLYTigePbix7DpkFJt1JBd%2BDj58EytsEiRWzam3kBm4%3D&reserved=0>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thoughts?
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> Thanks,
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> Chris Smith
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