From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C7B67FE44 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2016 23:56:34 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:66gcJBEFbM6d76rMKTjKSJ1GYnF86YWxBRYc798ds5kLTJ75oc2wAkXT6L1XgUPTWs2DsrQf2rKQ6PqrATJIyK3CmUhKSIZLWR4BhJdetC0bK+nBN3fGKuX3ZTcxBsVIWQwt1Xi6NU9IBJS2PAWK8TWM5DIfUi/yKRBybrysXNWD14LsjavqpdX6WEZhvHKFe7R8LRG7/036l/I9ps9cEJs30QbDuXBSeu5blitCLFOXmAvgtI/rpMYwuwwZgf8q9tZBXKPmZOx4COUAVHV1e1wyseH2vB/OBSmI5n0HVWNexhZVCg7IqhP9XpHqtS3Sue902S3cNsrzG+MaQzOnupxTAEvzkA8ALTQ47GjThMtgyqlcpUTy9FRE34fIbdTNZ7JFdaTHcIZfHDIZUw== Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=sp@orbitalfox.com; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=sp@orbitalfox.com; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@portal.orbitalfox.com Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of sp@orbitalfox.com) identity=pra; client-ip=95.172.232.202; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-sender="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of sp@orbitalfox.com) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=95.172.232.202; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-sender="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@portal.orbitalfox.com) identity=helo; client-ip=95.172.232.202; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="sp@orbitalfox.com"; x-sender="postmaster@portal.orbitalfox.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CrBABuIIBX/8rorF9chBR8sH+IGIF6GoV+AgyBVhIBAQEBAQEBAWQngjKCGwEFOAI0CxALGAklDwUoISeIIAG+HQEBAQcBAQEBIx6KVoUkgkmCLwWGUpIvE4UjaYJ6hT+CQox0kA4kAS+DcjsyiTIBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0CrBABuIIBX/8rorF9chBR8sH+IGIF6GoV+AgyBVhIBAQEBAQEBAWQngjKCGwEFOAI0CxALGAklDwUoISeIIAG+HQEBAQcBAQEBIx6KVoUkgkmCLwWGUpIvE4UjaYJ6hT+CQox0kA4kAS+DcjsyiTIBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,332,1464645600"; d="scan'208";a="184328563" Received: from w-202.cust-20351.ip.static.uno.uk.net (HELO portal.orbitalfox.com) ([95.172.232.202]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Jul 2016 23:56:33 +0200 Received: from tiger (tiger [192.168.88.5]) by portal.orbitalfox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F3D7AA002D; Fri, 8 Jul 2016 21:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 22:56:30 +0100 From: SP To: Duane Johnson Cc: Gabriel Scherer , Dean Thompson , "caml-list@inria.fr" Message-ID: <20160708215630.GC1723@tiger> References: <20160704144512.GB2458@Razor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] how to encourage adoption of OCaml? On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 09:16:09AM -0600, Duane Johnson wrote: >- my first impression of OCaml community was through reddit.com/r/ocaml. [..] >- next, I tried to find a google group. [..] >- signing up for a mailing list is slow and unrewarding. I'd much rather >sign up for a more modern community technology like reddit, facebook, >slack, or google groups. Those are very noisy environments and rather unpractical mediums. I use reddit to kill time not be productive. Sure exposure there might pull more wondering people. I get the impression that is hardly on anyone's top list here. >- I looked for a chat community, and IRC is the only option. This signals >"old tech community" to me. Slack or gitter.im is a more inclusive, modern >community. In order to participate in IRC, one must always be connected. Understood and appreciated. But the merrits of IRC and the mailing list are still there. Give them some time to see them. Less glitter, but more distributed and more accessible for people taking this seriously. Slack and Gitter are proprietary systems... Just sharing with you the perspective from the other side. Look past the chrome. -- SP