'Paulo Matos' via Racket Developers wrote on 03/15/2018 03:14 AM:
I generally dislike Google Groups but I also
I have a healthy skepticism of Google (which many people are afraid to
say, because they want funding/employment/acquisition from Google), but
Google Groups with archiving disabled currently works just like an
old-school email list / listserv, with no archive or Web interface.
Once in the list, the members of the list can +1 or thumbs up and
unless someone would be totally against it, we could accept the person.
I don't know of any software already set up to make that voting easy.
One general thing I've noticed, in various places: if an online
community doesn't advertise itself, or is not very easy to join, it soon
becomes stale. There will be attrition, and it is important to keep
bringing in new members, or it will either go silent, or (if chatty) end
up just a few old-timers re-telling the same stories to each other.
This entropy is *not*, I think, like businesses, economies, and monetary
systems that are set up to always require growth, but more like villages
that need to keep reproducing, and to keep doing intermarriage with
other villages.
Maybe you can write up when you find sometime about whatever you
learned regarding using racket in a business setting? Maybe make that
the first post to the list.
Sure: with Racket as a force multiplier, a few PhDs and (very
good-looking, superstar) software engineers and DevOps people can
accomplish what 3 times that number of Java people probably could not.
:) What I think Racket needs now, if commercial uptake is a good thing,
is for undergrad Y Combinator startups to do their first implementation
in Racket, and then tell other startups how that helped them get to
prototype/launch, and contribute back some open source.
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