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[107.92.121.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l195sm3404729itl.17.2016.07.09.07.13.23 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 09 Jul 2016 07:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3843BEB8-7188-4BF2-99C9-98128A0C1344" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) From: Dean Thompson In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 10:13:22 -0400 Cc: Ashish Agarwal , Yotam Barnoy , Mohamed Iguernlala , Duane Johnson , "caml-list@inria.fr" Message-Id: <29FC55D8-AD5A-48DD-B180-40E01ED4A094@gmail.com> References: <20160704144512.GB2458@Razor> <577FDAE1.7080207@gmail.com> To: Gabriel Scherer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] how to encourage adoption of OCaml? --Apple-Mail=_3843BEB8-7188-4BF2-99C9-98128A0C1344 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Jul 9, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Gabriel Scherer w= rote: >=20 > In general I support the idea of "meeting the users where they are" even = when that mean displeasing technological choices; this is why I have been a= ctive answering OCaml questions on StackOverflow in the past. I would be in= terested in making experiments with either: > - Discourse: I also heard bad things about it, but it's shiny, reactive a= nd open source >=20 > - Mattermost, as an open-source alternative to Slack -- but we would need= to find someone willing to host an instance. >=20 Mattermost is very appealing, but seems strongly focused on team/enterprise= communication rather than public venues. But there=E2=80=99s a rather funny punchline: On www.mattermost.org, they h= ave a Community menu, which has a Community Forums item, which links to =E2= =80=A6 wait for it! =E2=80=A6 a Discourse forum (forum.mattermost.org). Dean= --Apple-Mail=_3843BEB8-7188-4BF2-99C9-98128A0C1344 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
On Jul 9, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Gabriel= Scherer <gabrie= l.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:

In general= I support the idea of "meeting the users where they are" even when that me= an displeasing technological choices; this is why I have been active answer= ing OCaml questions on StackOverflow in the past. I would be interested in = making experiments with either:

- Discourse: I also heard bad things about it, bu= t it's shiny, reactive and open source

- Mattermost, as an= open-source alternative to Slack -- but we would need to find someone will= ing to host an instance.

Mattermost is very appealing, but seems strongly focused on team/enterp= rise communication rather than public venues.

But there=E2=80=99s a rather funny punchline: On www.mattermost.org, they = have a Community menu, which has a Community Forums item, which links to = =E2=80=A6 wait for it! =E2=80=A6 a Discourse forum (forum.mattermost.org).

Dean
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