Hi, I'm catching up with mail and thought you might be interested in my thoughts. They're just my thoughts, the thoughts of one Guile hacker, and I don't represent Guile with them -- so please do make up your own minds.
I basically agree with Ludo and Mark that proprietary, centralized social networks are bad for society, and are dangerous because they are attractive. I agree with Zx that there are many ways that Guile could be better as a community -- especially among new and younger Guilers, many of whom have "come of age" in an internet sense on social networks. I think that Guile probably could engage with users who are already on proprietary social networks, in a kind of announcement-oriented way, but I agree that we as a project shouldn't try to build a community there. Perhaps we could have someone manage "official" accounts for Guile on these services and link them up to re-post things from our news feed. If there are community needs that are not being met right now, we should try to identify them and find solutions. Is a blog aggregator the thing, or is it something else? I liked the idea of a Guile subreddit, though I don't know if it could get enough interest. Is there something that we need to build into gnu.org somehow? Whatever we do, I think we should try to point people to the "primary" vehicles of discussion: the mailing lists and the IRC channel. Again, these are just opinions of one guy, take them as you will :) Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
