Re: [Caml-list] Change policy on beginners list?

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

On 11 May 2017, at 20:19, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
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> On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 20:10, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
>> I would be happy to keep contributing with an email-based workflow,
> 
> What about http://lists.ocaml.org/ ? 

We can create a beginners list there very easily on request (infrastructure@lists.ocaml.org).

One other option that I can arrange to setup is Discourse (discourse.org), which is an open-source forum with a nice e-mail gateway (so it can be used purely in email based mode as well).  Quite a few open source projects use it as a good method of asynchronous communication.

There is a hosted version that I can arrange to be installed on a ocaml.org subdomain, but I will need at least a couple of volunteers to create categories and act as administrators for the site.

An advantage of such a Discourse-based forum is that it should be possible for OCaml library authors to easily create categories on the same forum to direct users of their software to, with minimal reconfiguration required. It would be great to have an area for those (e.g.) interested in JavaScript compilation to go to.

To see an example of Discourse in action, the Rust user forum is one good example: https://users.rust-lang.org.

regards,
Anil