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, "k12(a)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
(I have CCed <committee(a)haskell.org> because the haskell-community mailing list seems relatively quiet and I want to make sure this is seen.)
Hello! My name is Taylor Fausak. I run the Haskell Weekly newsletter. Last year I published a survey [1] for the Haskell community. I collected and reported [2] on about 1,335 responses. I plan on publishing another survey this year on the same date, November 1st. I am developing it in the open again [3] and would love to hear from any interested parties. Please let me know if you have any ideas about the survey!
This year I am interested in making the survey official by seeking support from Haskell.org. Is such a thing possible and desirable?
Thanks for your consideration! I hope to hear from you soon.
[1]: https://haskellweekly.news/surveys/2017.html
[2]: https://taylor.fausak.me/2017/11/15/2017-state-of-haskell-survey-results/
[3]: https://github.com/haskellweekly/haskellweekly.github.io/issues/206
