Thanks to Paulo, Greg, and Jesse for their comments.
I bet we'll get even more interest once announced on "racket-users".
If -- speak now, or forever hodl your peacecoins -- there are no
objections to making a separate "racket-money" email list, on the topic
of "making money with Racket, discussed in a more intimate setting",
then 3 questions:
1. Host it as a Google Groups non-archived email list, or as a somewhat
more private MailMan email list at my vanity domain hoster? (In either
case, Google already gives themselves permission to scrape individual
GMail users' emails, there will probably be at least one @gmail.com user
on the list, and who knows in what ways information will effectively
leak that way, so I'm not sure that hosting the list myself gives any
significant additional privacy.) (I personally don't want to use Slack
unless I'm being paid to.)
2. What, if any, gatekeeping should be done on joining the list, to
encourage people to be more candid than they might be on, say, a
Facebook post? I suspect the main problem is the multitude of Web sites
that simply mirror email lists -- normally, they just clutter search
results, but even one of them sneaking in would violate the expected
privacy. I'm inclined not to gatekeep individuals, and I'd also like to
encourage people like undergrads contemplating a startup to join the
list, so long as everyone understands that talk on the list remains
confidential. One idea is that people could email to ask to be put on
the list, or should go to a Web form to ask to join and wait for
moderator approval. Another idea is that people could join by posting a
message introducing themselves to the list, and then a moderator adds
them to the list and the introductory post goes through to the list,
which doubles as introducing people. I'd prefer we didn't need a human
in the loop, but maybe that's the simplest way to keep a Web list
archiver out. I'd like something simple that helps the list achieve its
goal, not a barrier/burden/annoyance.
3. Who wants to volunteer to co-administer to the email list? Just to
do whatever gatekeeping of joining from question #2, not to moderate
posts or anything like that. I can volunteer, but we need at least 1
more, in case of bus.
(Feels off to write that much about trying to maintain a modicum of
privacy for perhaps a dozen people with very light traffic, but maybe
that's because any nonzero degree of privacy is becoming unfamiliar. :)
BTW, I'm probably soon moving out of the jet-setting/sofa-setting world
of independent technical consulting, to somewhere that I can focus on
solving technical problems without all the extra work of also running a
small business by myself. But even though my day job probably will no
longer involve making money with Racket, I'll remain interested in the
great Racket community, and in using Racket for personal projects.
Neil Van Dyke wrote on 02/28/2018 11:16 AM:
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"? :)
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