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

[Gershom B]

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:
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> 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!
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> Is this a possibility?  Anything else I can do to move this forward?
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> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:32 AM Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
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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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>> 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?
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>> Hey,
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>> Is there a process to request a new mailing list on the haskell.org domain?
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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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