From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p993bvi4016143 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:37:57 +0200 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,510,1312149600"; d="scan'208";a="123344431" Received: from walapai.inria.fr ([128.93.30.24]) by mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 09 Oct 2011 05:37:51 +0200 Received: from walapai.inria.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p993bptj016140 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:37:51 +0200 Received: (from sympa@localhost) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.12.10/Submit) id p993bpOR016139 for caml-list@inria.fr; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:37:51 +0200 Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:37:51 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: walapai.inria.fr: sympa set sender to sympa@inria.fr using -f To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Adam Granicz In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [Caml-list] [ANN] FPish - bridging FP communities Hi everyone, FPish (http://fpish.net) is a brand new community site for functional programmers, just launched this week with over 1500 users and growing fast. It aims to provide a wealth of information, and to collect and make easily searchable any FP events (conferences, webcasts, trainings, etc.), courses, blogs, user groups, companies, developers, jobs, questions and answers, basically everything we functional programmers and those who are looking to become functional programmers might be interested in. There are a ton of additional features in development - professional networking, a fast blog engine, community trends based on tweets and blogs, a jobs and careers section, just to name a few - these are rolled out continually. We have just started to populate the event and group catalogs, and are now inviting all of you to contribute what you can. In particular, we are inviting you to use FPish to share content in the forums (under Answers) that might help others learning OCaml. Feel free to post your projects, or share what you are working on, or simply ask or answer questions - anything you contribute will help someone. Be sure to tag your content with "OCaml" (case insensitive) and any other tag you may find appropriate - so that others can find it more easily. Doing so will ensure that your contributions show up in the OCaml "zone" - basically, a subspace of FPish dedicated to OCaml. Once you register, you can not only post forum content, you can also create OCaml user groups that others can join or follow (a good alternative to meetup.com), organize events such as webcasts or meetups (you can soon be able to charge and collect money for them too if you need sponsorship), add and manage conferences (with everything from talk proposals to adding/scheduling speakers and talks), and add your companies (with a bit of manual help from us) to gain more visibility. You can also create your developer profile, and others will be able to find you under Developers - this is a brand new feature just released. If you would like to get involved as a FPish OCaml community leader or moderator please drop me a message directly. Community leaders shape the public facing of their communities, and have complete control over the markup on the OCaml zone (and can use building blocks such as forums, event listings, etc.) and are in charge of reflecting all the happenings (events, groups, conferences, etc.) in the community. Your comments and ideas are very welcome. There will also be an API available shortly for doing searches and adding new content. One intriguing project would be to catalog the full caml-list archives, making it readily searchable and accessible via the API - anyone interested in helping out please get in touch. Thanks, Adam.