Let me just top-post my reply... :) Although I am not sure how I could contribute to the list yet, I like the idea. I am working on a commercial project in racket and would certainly be happy to hear others thoughts on pragmatic business issues like selling racket software, customer apprehension, libraries to ease customer code inspection and debugging, etc.
On the other hand, it might be it's just the two of us actually trying to squeeze money out of racket, in which case it might fizzle out. :) If something like this exists, it should definitely imo be non-archived (which makes it a reason not to have it with racket-users). As a list for the business/commercial side of racket there will be questions that might come up and that should not be searchable or public on the wide internet where finding stuff about someone else is a click away. Or a list where all publicly archived posts are anonymous... but I have never seen anything like that or know if it's possible to achieve it properly. Happy to hear from others, Paulo On 28/02/18 17:16, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > What to you think about this idea?... > > I'm thinking it might be good to have a forum for commercial use of > Racket (consultants, employees, employers) to compare notes amongst > themselves, with a bit more privacy, and a lot lower traffic than the > current email lists. > > I'm thinking a new email list, limited to the topic of non-university > making money with Racket, not archived. It could be hosted by Google > Groups, in their email-only mode, or I could host it from from my vanity > domain. > > I don't know whether this would take off at all (an email list for > Racket consultants only, a few years ago, quickly fizzled, IIRC), but I > was thinking it might be worth a try. > > I'm not married to the idea of making this a private list, nor even > separate from the "racket-users" list. Maybe the same > information-sharing benefit could be gotten by encouraging people to > talk about money-making on "racket-users" anytime, or having a periodic > thread for that purpose. (I suppose I might be the only person, in an > era of even children carefully managing Facebook and Twitter PR facades, > who'd consider speaking more candidly in a smaller online forum.) > > Comments? > > P.S., How can we not have something called "racket-money"? :) > -- Paulo Matos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/f5624075-e3b1-93a4-2a42-6290e56caa5b%40linki.tools. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
