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 <cdsm...@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 <simo...@microsoft.com> > wrote: >> >> Good idea. “k12” is rather USA specific. What about educat...@haskell.org? >> >> >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> From: Haskell-community <haskell-community-boun...@haskell.org> On Behalf Of >> Chris Smith >> Sent: 22 October 2018 15:32 >> To: Haskell-community <haskell-community@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, "k...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-community mailing list > Haskell-community@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community _______________________________________________ Haskell-community mailing list Haskell-community@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community
