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--94eb2c187d3ea6fc030537374453 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Elm has been very successful at encouraging adoption of late. Here is what their Community page looks like: http://elm-lang.org/community On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Dean Thompson wrote: > On Jul 9, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Gabriel Scherer > wrote: > > 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 > active answering OCaml questions on StackOverflow in the past. I would be > interested in making experiments with either: > > - Discourse: I also heard bad things about it, but it's shiny, reactive > and open source > > - Mattermost, as an open-source alternative to Slack -- but we would need > to find someone willing to host an instance. > > 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= 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 > --94eb2c187d3ea6fc030537374453 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Elm has been very successful at encouraging adoption of la= te. Here is what their Community page looks like:


On Sat,= Jul 9, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Dean Thompson <deansherthompson@gmail.co= m> wrote:
On = Jul 9, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com> wrote:
In general I support the idea of "m= eeting the users where they are" even when that mean displeasing techn= ological choices; this is why I have been active answering OCaml questions = on StackOverflow in the past. I would be interested in making experiments w= ith either:

- Discourse: I also heard bad things a= bout it, but it's shiny, reactive and open source

- Mattermost, a= s an open-source alternative to Slack -- but we would need to find someone = willing to host an instance.

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 have a Communit= y menu, which has a Community Forums item, which links to =E2=80=A6 wait fo= r it! =E2=80=A6 a Discourse forum (forum.mattermost.org).

Dean

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